Kryptos shelf project

[4x4mike]

Like I had written in my shelf post, all my heavy stuff goes on the bottom and is limited to an ice chest and Action Packer. A metric S-ton of stuff goes on top of that. The heavy stuff is on the bottom because it packs better that way. With the shelf there is no way one of the large heavy items will make it into the passenger area which is nice.

The shelf was for better organization and didn't necessarily change the way I packed the vehicle. Stuff would fall on the kids heads but it was pillows or sleeping pads. They basically held back sleeping bags and small duffle bags.

Because we do carry a lot of different things I wanted the ability to stuff more random things in. There could be a time when something a little harder would go up top of the pile and could make it's way forward.

I can't seem to find the picture but I added tie down points near the C pillar to add a net or screen to.


A couple of months ago I finally got around to rigging a net. It's not exactly what I was after but I'm not sure I want to spend a lot of time trying to perfect anything especially since it wouldn't be used all the time. It uses 550 cord to hold a thick wall 1/2 pvc pipe across that the net is zip tied to. The bottom of the net clips into the cargo tie downs and on the metal pieces the rear seat click into. I use the netting that is against the back of the seats to hold the fishing poles, chairs and half of our sleeping pads. I can remove most everything and still have those held in tight where as before they could tumble down.



The rear head rests keep part of the net from stretching when the cargo area is loaded. The actual top of the seats and back of the kids seats hold stuff like a little shelf. On one of our trips I had it hold a sun shelter and the adult sleeping bags. I didn't get a picture loaded from the inside but it worked great and let me pack more even though I didn't really want to. Since that picture I perfected a method of tensioning the pvc so it's higher up but even at a lower spot nothing is slipping past it.

I need to update my shelf post with a few pictures.