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1/2 ton status
There's probably a whole lot better term for this, my imagination just ain't workin' yet today, lol.
While under the truck last night changing out the lift pump, laying on the ground, I was thinking "there's gotta be a better way than keeping a supply of cardboard on hand to lay on". In my case, living in the southern Arizona desert, where the ground is sandy and rocky, you generally want something under you to keep from being poked and prodded in all the wrong spots by the large amount of sharp and pointy rocks everywhere.
While a 4x8 sheet of plywood works well to protect your sensitive areas, it's unwieldy to store and move around, especially when your parts trucks ended up in the back 40 of the property. On the other hand, even thick cardboard doesn't last long against the rocks...I cut up the box my BBQ grill came in, and in less than 2 minutes, the rocks were already poking through it. 2 minutes later, it was soaked in diesel fuel, so I was cutting up another section of box, lol.
I was thinking about welding up a support structure of thin aluminum square tube, maybe putting some hinges in it to make it foldable, and covering it in thin plexiglass to provide the good rock protection but also easily cleaned. Could also be handy to take to the junkyards to avoid having to lay down in oil and grease soaked ground.
But also wondering if others have come up any nifty solutions for this...or maybe I'm the only pansy that doesn't want to lay directly on the ground
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While under the truck last night changing out the lift pump, laying on the ground, I was thinking "there's gotta be a better way than keeping a supply of cardboard on hand to lay on". In my case, living in the southern Arizona desert, where the ground is sandy and rocky, you generally want something under you to keep from being poked and prodded in all the wrong spots by the large amount of sharp and pointy rocks everywhere.
While a 4x8 sheet of plywood works well to protect your sensitive areas, it's unwieldy to store and move around, especially when your parts trucks ended up in the back 40 of the property. On the other hand, even thick cardboard doesn't last long against the rocks...I cut up the box my BBQ grill came in, and in less than 2 minutes, the rocks were already poking through it. 2 minutes later, it was soaked in diesel fuel, so I was cutting up another section of box, lol.
I was thinking about welding up a support structure of thin aluminum square tube, maybe putting some hinges in it to make it foldable, and covering it in thin plexiglass to provide the good rock protection but also easily cleaned. Could also be handy to take to the junkyards to avoid having to lay down in oil and grease soaked ground.
But also wondering if others have come up any nifty solutions for this...or maybe I'm the only pansy that doesn't want to lay directly on the ground
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