Grub Box or Chuckbox

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I'm looking for a good grub box or chuck box and I searched this section and didn't come up with much - there was one that had good comments but the picture is not longer there. I found online a good looking box made by a guy named Kent Mayberry who used to be with IDOS (Dutch Oven discussion forum) but I can't track it down.

I've seen the bluesky stuff and want something simplier. I've seen the Outdoor Basics one and it seems OK, but I have a feeling that, being metal, it will get bent and never work right again.

Looking for a basic wooden grub or patrol box.

Peter
 
You may want to take a look at a Pelican 1650 case. I don't have a close-up, but I run a 1650 as my Camp Kitchen. It'll hold all my pots, pans, knives, dishes, coffee pots, dishpans and "dry" food stuff. The cold stuff goes in the Engel. You can use the case as a table, chair and chopping block. It's also critter and bear proof and of course, water/dust/crush proof.....wouldn't want your bread to get crushed.....

Note: The Pelican in this shot is my old camp kitchen, it's a 1250(?) and the action packer on top of it held the "dry" food. The 1650 now holds all of the kitchen gear and "dry" food.


Good luck
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Visit Sportsman's Warehouse in Rocklin. They have a nice compact metal box unit where the top opens and the front drops down. I have my entire kitchen in it. I don't have a pic right now.

Phil
 
Thanks,

The Pelican box is a great suggestion. I'll have to give that some more thought.

I bet the box at Sportsman's Warehouse is the Outdoor Basics unit. I don't know why, but I'm worried the metal will get bent, especially those two trays that fold out of the top.

Peter
 
Camp kitchen

One person in our group had this on while on the Mojave Trail....was really cool, compact and fit all their kitchen items real nice. I like how a Coleman stove fits in the top and the lid can be used as a washbasin. I was thinking of working on a wooden version customized to fit the rear of my 60.

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The local surplus store had these in stock...I'm going to use it as a "grub box". It's pretty sturdy with metal reinforcements at all corners and edges. The top space has a removable divider. I just have to configure the spaces for kitchen items. I couldn't make one for the price...$89.99

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I just finished building this one to fit in my 80's drawer system. Used it out this weekend here in the mountains of Colorado, and it was great.

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A two burner stove fits on the upper left. The two areas on the right (top & bottom) are for storing pots, pans and other miscellaneous kitchen equipment.

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Here it is folded up. I put Formica on the top surface, as well as inside the side door. This gives me a lot of work surface, and it's easy to clean. The rest of the box got stained with clear gloss polyurethane.
 
...another suplus store score!

Surplus has these in lately.....some had individual boxes inside and some had these divided drawers on slides (removable). Will carry all the other junk I used to put in containers. Will fit nicely alongside my kitchen box in the previous post...

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$69.99

$69 bucks.....and the divider's are box-jointed. It would cost me more for the router jig than for the whole thing!
 
Wow. Too bad the 'surplus' stores around here think they're selling goldplated stuff.
 
Herbie555 said:
Speaking of Toolboxes, I used an aluminum truck box turned on its side. Added a few hardboard dividers and a sterilite drawer kit, and voila'

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Super slick setup up you have made from the truck box. I'll have to browse CL and see what they have.
 
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