my new box!

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this is what i have worked on all labor day. Box for the easy dumper. Before I just had painted plywood and 2x4. Now the 2x4s are ash and the panels are fir. All milled on sight. I am just going to keep oiling it I think.
 

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Bigger jobs the little black ranger in the back hauls gear and the chipper. The F250 hauls the wood trailer. Smaller jobs we just pack it all in the back of the F250. I carry gear in various sizes of JET sleds that can just slide up on top of the chips where I have eye bolts to clip them in place. I also bid a lot of jobs for leaving chips so on those days its just the ranger and the chipper. Going big from my bicycle days. I hate the gas mileage on that F250. But it just runs great and cost less than my GRCS. I have the top open and have a tarp, I like to be able to load dirt or whatever with a loader when needed. A tarp is also lighter.
 
I screwed a couple of 2x4s up when I was notching them. It was so awesome to just walk over to the mill and mill off another 2x4
 
Look svery nice, beats the heck outof fall-a-particle board

OT here........

What oil are you using? I am looking for something for a Larix and Tsuga fence I had milled up, no dyes, just want to bring the natural red out.
 
I built one. A chip box on my first flat bed. (no dump) I was driving down the frontage road one day and it blew off. Hope you have better luck.
 
Kevin that does look nice. I just built a new one for my ezdumper as well a couple weeks ago. Yours is more natural. How tall above the dumper rail did you go? I have been meaning to get a pic of mine up in another thread but aint had time. You forced my hand
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Nice job
 

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Nice job guys.

Flying25, what material did you make that out of? Looks plastic? Where'd ya get it? I need an extra sheet on the top of my box and don't want to get the aluminum$$/
 
The sides are 1/4 because of all the extra support from the recycled plastic 2x4s. the front is 1/4 as well with two 2'x 2' mud flaps hanging as protection and deflection. The top is 1/2". I thought the 2x4s would be enough to keep it from sagging but they are not. I had to add angle iron on three of them and am going to add C channel to the other two this week... If I get time.
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50 inches above the rail. I was a little worried when I went over a curb today that it might be too top heavy though. We will see.
 
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I thought the 2x4s would be enough to keep it from sagging but they are not. I had to add angle iron on three of them and am going to add C channel to the other two this week... If I get time.
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If you installed the 2X4's vertically (90 degrees from how you have them), they wouldn't sag... But you'd lose that bit of space.

-Tom
 
I think I didnt represent the problem clearly. The top section sags a bit. The sides stay strait because of the stakes on the outside. I beleive you can see the angle iron on the front, middle and back cross memebers to hold them strait. Sorry
 
actually, the sawmill guy I work with has set up his woodmizer next to my house azs he got run out of his neighborhood by the zoning people. He lets me run it as I need it. its a woodmizer with a 35 HP wisconson engine.
 
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