Folding Camping Platform with Dimensions (1 Viewer)

[Cold Iron]

I didn't actually have a roof net / hammock / what have you in the GX and this whole trip I just took I was saying to myself "damn, self, why didn't you install one?"

So I did today. I would note that the GX has different measurements than the 4R did. On the 4R I used a 28"x28" ATV net; on the GX a 15"x30" net works well. I got it for $7 at Rural King.

Set your paracord frame nice and tight with a CamJam as noted above, pull the hooks off the net, and zip tie the net up starting in the corners and working in.

Mine has a gun rack in place of the 3rd row grab handles but it's same-same if you have the handles.

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Wut an evil black lever action?! Now I've seen everything! LOL just kidding!

My grandfathers Winchester M94 in thurdy thurdy still gets the job done

Although prefer bolt action in anything except 6.5 Creedmoor and I'm a quarter bore fan.

Have to draw the line at a black SxS with Picatinny Rails, that is just a bridge too far for me. My shooting coach is coming up for lessons for 6 of us over the next 2 days at Game Unlimited where the World FITASC was held last year in Wi. Will start packing in an hour or 2. As long as it isn't raining I will be shooting a proper SxS

Chance of rain so the black Benelli Cordoba is going as a rain gun. Same as the Benelli Supersport, but I couldn't get past the shiny bling on the SS. Black guns have their place...

 

[GrizzlyClint]

Black guns have their place...

I'm a simple native Texan, I just like the pew pews because they're all tools. I don't discriminate.

 

[MeefZah]

I like the net! Also, .30-30 or
.44 Mag? Hard to tell ejection port size on a phone. Lol

.357, I should have got the .44 but this was used and a good price....

 

[Cold Iron]

I'm a simple native Texan, I just like the pew pews because they're all tools. I don't discriminate.

It is usually a generational thing, wood and blue vs. black. Damn kids get the hell off my lawn!

With that said I screw in extended choke tubes on my SxS's in large part to watch the "traditional crowd" cringe. I can't help myself and take a little perverse pleasure in chaffing their arse LOL.

 

[GrizzlyClint]

Damn kids get the hell off my lawn!

*shaking fist at the sky*

 

[Blain]

I plan to use my GX for some camping this summer, so I wanted to design the lowest-profile sleeping platform that I could build that will come out of the truck easily for storage. I figured I would share some pictures and dimensions to help out someone else trying in the future. These dimensions are pretty good, but not perfect, there is about 1/2in wiggle room between the wheel wells, and some open space behind the wheel wells so the hinged section can fold forward. I realized the dimensions sheet switches from fractional to decimal dimensions, but you get what you pay for.

It would be a lot easier to just make the whole platform a consistent width, but I wanted to get as much support for a mattress as possible since my fiancee and I will both be sleeping in it for a few nights. After I cut the shape for the rear-most section I layered the middle section on top and used a router with a template bit to copy the shape, rinse and repeat for the section at the front. I am also a little over 6' tall so this is about as long as I could make the platform. I used locking hinges like these for the "legs" Amazon.com - https://a.co/d/8NhBGMj, and the middle section overlaps the legs by about an inch when it is extended and feels reasonably sturdy. I used 1 sheet of junky 3/4in plywood that was underlayment in a previous life, and it is covered in a $15 outdoor rug from Menards. The whole assembly stores behind the 2nd row without any issues, and with the mattress on top it is pretty quiet/doesn't bounce around too much on fire roads. The sections are all hinged together so I can drive to a campsite with the forward-most section folded under, park, scoot the seats forward, then deploy the last section and I was limited by vertical clearance (hence the corner cutouts).

The shaded sections indicate material was removed:
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Just confirming the left side of your drawing is the passenger side, correct?

 

[NorthwoodsGX]

Just confirming the left side of your drawing is the passenger side, correct?

That is correct, the top of the drawing is the back of the vehicle.

 

[NorthwoodsGX]

I didn't actually have a roof net / hammock / what have you in the GX and this whole trip I just took I was saying to myself "damn, self, why didn't you install one?"

So I did today. I would note that the GX has different measurements than the 4R did. On the 4R I used a 28"x28" ATV net; on the GX a 15"x30" net works well. I got it for $7 at Rural King.

Set your paracord frame nice and tight with a CamJam as noted above, pull the hooks off the net, and zip tie the net up starting in the corners and working in.

Mine has a gun rack in place of the 3rd row grab handles but it's same-same if you have the handles.

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Nice job, and love the lever action! I forgot about the gear hammock idea and need to gather some materials. Over the weekend, I put together a screen for the back door to keep bugs out. I finally have a trip on the calendar, so looking forward to testing it out.