Show me your mounted stoves.

[JCruse]

I just got a two burner propane stove (stove/grill actually) and I have a single 36" drawer coming. I'd like to have the stove slide or swing out somehow for ease of use and ease of storing it, but aside from a $100-$200+ sliding platform added to the drawer by the manufacturer, I'm kind of stuck on how to do this myself.

I can see it sliding out from the back of the drawer to the front and out a little, like a fridge, - and I can sort of see it sideways on the near end of the drawer and turning out straight on some sort of swivel mount. But after that I'm stumped on how to actually make it happen.

Anyone with either of these arrangements, or anything else, please post it up so I can see what you did and hopefully learn something.

Thanks.











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[JayDoc]

I'm considering this same problem. I am looking at making a pull out cook station for my soon to be camping trailer. At the moment, I think the best option is a drawer mechanism that utilizes heavy duty drawer sliders. I figure I'll get the base sliders that I can bolt to the floor of the trailer.
There is a great variety at www.mcmaster.com but some of the heavy duty ones can get a bit pricey.
If anyone has any other sources, please post 'em up.

 

[No. 3]

I used a folding shelf from a race trailer parts company and elevator pad hooks which keyholes in the shelf slide over. There's some room on the side when you are cooking and in the rain the tarp/awing goes up. Low investment and great function- the tailgate remains clear for food prep.
Jeff

 

[No. 3]

Here's a crop of the same picture- you can see the stove shelf better.

 

[JCruse]

LOL For a minute there I thought you were talking about the brick BBQ.

How'd he mount that!


Nice shelved stove though. Great access and no smoke hitting the upper tailgate.

 

[AutoCraft Aus]

We make a stainless table for the Slee rear bars we import here, which is great for up to a 2 burner stove.

But we always try and cook on the fire where we can, and we developed our height adjustable firesticks which hold the camp oven, pot, griller, billy, and frypan, and the sticks pack into a 50mm pipe, so they take up no room, and no fire carbon etc on anything.

Apart from the camp oven kit with griller, pot and pan, we also do the "john holmes addition" frypan, for when you have to cook for larger groups.

 

[cruiserpilot]

Here's a crop of the same picture- you can see the stove shelf better.

So you screwed that to the outside of your truck? Like to see how you did that.

 

[NLXTACY]

So you screwed that to the outside of your truck? Like to see how you did that.

X2...

 

[JCruse]

Autocraft is freaking outfitted! big time!

Nice setup. What time do we eat?

 

[NLXTACY]

Autocraft is freaking outfitted! big time!

Nice setup. What time do we eat?

Did you notice his entire tailgate is a large cutting board?

 

[AutoCraft Aus]

That pic was the night on the road, doing a Simpson Desert crossing, about 700km between fuel stops and 4 days travelling, so we had plenty on board.

 

[cruiserpilot]

That pic was the night on the road, doing a Simpson Desert crossing, about 700km between fuel stops and 4 days travelling, so we had plenty on board.

You should put a map and a little thread on Chat, show us people over here where that is. I'd sure like to see, put it on the list of road trips of the future!

 

[SIZZLE]

I bring a folding table. Folds flat to about 2.5'x2.5' and takes up very little space in the truck. Folds out to twice that size and gives plenty of work space to do whatever. Not very inventive, but cheap and highly effective!

 

[AutoCraft Aus]

You should put a map and a little thread on Chat, show us people over here where that is. I'd sure like to see, put it on the list of road trips of the future!

Well, can do that, but chat is a scary place to post anything really....


Part of the SNOWY U.S 80 in my sig line, is for Aussies to travel to the U.S, and for U.S cruiserheads to be able to come here, and do the same thing, longer term.

Have Mud Will Travel !


We have the firesticks, camp oven set up with just a fold up table in SNOWY, for ease of camping over there while in the U.S as well, but will be fitting the fold down table to the arm next trip, the chopping board tailgate covers are a bit big to ship, might be easier if I put a join in it, to get it there.

 

[ab1985]

I used a similar table off the bumper of my 4Runner and plan to do the same on my 80.

 

[AutoCraft Aus]

Looking at your tent, you must sleep standing up ?

 

[NLXTACY]

Looking at your tent, you must sleep standing up ?

In his other tent, he pee's laying down

 

[ab1985]

You don't even want to know what I use the chair for

 

[No. 3]

Sorry folks, I haven't been able to check in since I posted. The shelf hangs on SS elevator pad hooks. Like most of the stuff in the truck it is left over from a job- we used them to hang jewelery display cases in a store so that they could move the cases around in different arrangements. The shelf is just one of many folding aluminum shelves that are sold for race car trailers and it sits on its long edge between the closed tailgate and the contraption that holds the reefer and all the other stuff in the cargo area when not in use.

Looking at that picture sure makes me want to get on the road- Crater Lake is planned in July, we were skunked on climbing Shasta this month- no snow! How come cooking dinner on the road/ in camp is so much better than cooking at home?
Best,
Jeff

Edit: JCruse- BBQ comment was effin' hilarious!

 

[Kofoed]

Did you notice his entire tailgate is a large cutting board?

In case they mow down a 'roo for the grill?