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DIY - How To Build A Dog Box For A Truck If you like to take your dog with you almost everywhere you go, and you may badger about their safety during the trip. Dogs heart to be in the cabin with you, their heads dangling exterior the truck window and ears flapping in the wind. As lovely as this is to see, it is not inoffensive for either you or your dog as even the most well stilted pooch may be enticed to run around the cabin and later up in the compass of the driver. If you retain to transport your dog and especially if you cede be alone in the vehicle, the peak device for you to do is to hold a dog basket put on the bed of your truck. Dog boxes are available in wooden and aluminum models and come in a variety of sizes to unite all breeds of dogs that cede be required to to be transported. The setback is that purchasing a dog basket can price anywhere between $300 - 650 for singles and in excess of $2000 for boxes that can accommodate 3 or additional dogs. If this is not in your price range, you can make your posses dog basket for impartial below $100 to safely and comfortably machination your extra young member in your tuck. Required Tools and Materials Tape pulsation Drill Box relevant (wood, aluminum, or arduous plastic coated with polyurethane or record this guide describes building a wooden hamper as this is the most affordable material). Saw Screwdriver Sand paper/ Electric Sander Hammer and Nails or A Nail gun or carriage bolts 4 Latches Mesh piercing 2 sets of trivial hinges 1 Handle 1 paddock of thick carpeting Staple gun Instructions Step One With the cd measure, find the dimensions that commit be requisite for the dog pannier and make a dispatch of them. Measure the height, width and twist that the container commit manage up in your tuck, moulding sure that the peak of the container commit not esoteric your rear vista mirror and that your dog will be comfortable while being in the box. Also determine how tall your dog is for the door you will make in the model of the dog box. Step Two Mark the dimensions you retain measured onto the wood in pencil and using the maxim or a woodcutter, nick out the shapes needful to construct the box. You will mark six parts when you're finished: A floor, four sides (one team containing a door for maw and exit) and a top. Step Three Using the drill, make scarcely ventilation holes in at least two faces of the box. Do not make holes in the best or pave of the box to prevent moisten from entering. After drilling, make sure that you beige down the sides that cede make up the interior of the box. Cut out a square or rectangle from the squad that bequeath be used as govern of the box. This entrust be the door. Step Four Piece together the pannier using the hammer and nails, nail gun or carriage bolts. (Persons using aluminum leave deficiency to weld each of the sides together). Secure the top, 3 sides and base to each other, leaving off the vanguard with the nick out for the door. Step Five Using screws and hinges, attain the door that has been nick out to the piece being used for the bob of the box. Check to make sure that it moves freely, opens outward and closes tightly. Add the latches to the door; add one to at the top and bottom and two on the party dissension to the hinges. Step Six Cut out carpeting and earn to the asphalt and sides of the hamper using the staple gun. Step Seven Attach the govern panel with the door to the creel using the hammer and nails, nail gun or carriage bolts and attach protuberance to exterior. Step Eight Paint the exterior of the creel with a sealer or bedew immune colouring and overlay Step Nine Make eight meagre holes into the bed of your truck and eight analogue holes (four on each side) through the wood of the pannier that succession up. Using the sizeable screws and bolts, fasten the pannier to the bed of the truck. Step Ten Test your dog creel without your dog. Put in a few complete bedew bottles to emulator the movement of your dog during a drive and verify that the hamper doesn't shift on rough terrain or when going uphill. Tips and Warnings 1) Use protective gear (gloves and goggles) when using nail gun, sanding or sawing. 2) Double investigation all measurements before cutting wood. See more VDO How to Build a Small shed Many thanks for watch this Video