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Old 08-10-2002 | 09:37 PM
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Default THE FIELD BOX FROM HELL! aka The Ultimate Field box!

That's one of the nice things about our club field, we can back right up to the grass pit area, pop the tailgate and set everything right there... no "trips to the tables" so to speak. All I have to do is pull my box from behind my seat, walk about 8 feet to the back of the truck and set it down... ready to rock.

Also, I can then split the box down into it's top/btm halves and leave the top half (with all my tools, spare parts, etc.) right there on the tailgate, then walk about 8 more feet into the grass pits where we set our planes and set the bottom half of the box in the grass (with my starter, glow, fuel, pump, etc. in it).

Makes it nice since everything I need to start the plane sets out there in one box right next to my planes in the pits and all my tools 'n stuff are there on my tailgate at tabletop level 8 feet away.

Of course, I keep it all together and mount my fieldstand risers on the box first, to assemble the planes. But that's another cool thing, while I'm assembling the plane "above my box" I can reach right down and open it up for wing bolts, ball drivers, etc. without taking the plane off and breaking the box down.

Tom