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08-22-2015, 09:38 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: ..., New Mexico
Trailer: 2013 Esc19/'14 Silvrado
Posts: 4,193
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Tongue box options
Agreed, having a box on the tongue is a very practical addition. I was wondering if anyone else has decided there must be cheaper alternatives.
I saved a bundle by building my own but clearly that option is not for everyone. So how about it? What other solutions are out there?
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Myron
"A billion here, a billion there...add it all up and before you know it you're talking real money." Everett Dirkson
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08-22-2015, 10:18 AM
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#2
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Trailer: 2015 Escape 17B - 2009 Chevy Tahoe Hybrid
Posts: 551
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Nice job! In my next life, I'm going to become more self-sufficient!
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08-22-2015, 10:42 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: North Van., British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 Escape 19, sold; 2019 Escape 21, Sept. 2019
Posts: 8,743
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Definitely agree a tongue box is handy, don't know what I'd do without one. Not that I'd ever be without one. I even fabricated one for my Scamp 13.
And I definitely agree that there are alternatives to the big bucks for the ETI box. I also wanted a box that was more in scale to the 19 and the ETI box looks too wide to me.
It's certainly well within the range of most DIY'ers to fabricate one. I took advantage of the front slope of the trailer front to gain more interior volume. Not that I pack more stuff in, it just makes it easier to see objects because they're less piled on top of each other.
Ron
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08-22-2015, 10:45 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Trailer: 2015 Escape 17B - 2009 Chevy Tahoe Hybrid
Posts: 551
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Nice Ron. Again, sure wish there was a "like" button so I didn't take up space with my appreciations of cool posts!
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08-22-2015, 10:49 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Trailer: 2015 Escape 19 "Seventy Degrees"
Posts: 3,495
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Very inexpensive truck box options at the depot or lowes. Shouldn't be difficult to mount them, and they run about $280 in aluminum or black.
Nice work on the custom ones above.
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08-22-2015, 11:52 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canyon Lake, Texas
Trailer: 2015 19 "Past Tents", 2021 F150 Lariat 2.7L EB
Posts: 10,222
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Yeah, I've seen the truck boxes used as tongue boxes, but they've never looked quite right to me. I love the custom ones above because they actually 'fit' the style and shape of the trailer. When we first looked at the options sheet, the $700 price tag on the storage box seemed quite high. As we did more research, we soon found out that there were very few viable 'store-bought' alternatives, and most of those were even more money - and not custom fit. Best $700 I ever spent. If I didn't have it, I'd be about designing and building a custom one, as others have.
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08-22-2015, 12:05 PM
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#7
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: ..., New Mexico
Trailer: 2013 Esc19/'14 Silvrado
Posts: 4,193
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If you pass on getting the ETI tongue box you get this cool mud skirt.
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Myron
"A billion here, a billion there...add it all up and before you know it you're talking real money." Everett Dirkson
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08-22-2015, 12:08 PM
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#8
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: North Van., British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 Escape 19, sold; 2019 Escape 21, Sept. 2019
Posts: 8,743
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After tar on the road Alaska, I'd have been happy if it had only been mud.
Oh well, a little Varsol and all is well again.
Ron
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08-22-2015, 10:17 PM
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#9
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: SLO County, California
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21C 2019 Expedition
Posts: 5,210
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Was going to say I thought it would be good to have one a little less wide until I saw those leatherette rock guards. Had 'em on the 17; don't miss them at all.
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08-23-2015, 07:29 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Portland, Oregon
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 11,023
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Ian needs to post a picture of the tongue box he made for his Boler. oooo-la-la!
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Donna D.
Ten Forward
2014 Escape 5.0TA
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08-23-2015, 03:33 PM
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Commercial Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21 - "Felicity"
Posts: 2,945
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Storage box is a whole lot easier to maintain/refinish that the front end of my 21. I think of it as the sacrificial add-on.
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