Ice Chest tongue box

[tearlurker]

Wow, tongue boxes are $cha-Ching$! I saw this at cooler at Costco today for $70.00. I’m going to get some angle and make some clamps to attach it to the tongue. Some straps over the top will help secure it too.

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[tony.latham]

For my current build, I bought the same tongue box that Vistabule uses. $90 on eBay shipped. Northern Tool wanted $140 for it. I see Home Depot sells it for $94:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Buyers-Products-Company-36-in-Trailer-Tongue-Black-Polymer-Tool-Box-1701680/204338239?cm_mmc=Shopping%7CG%7CBase%7CD25T%7C25-11_STORAGE+DEVICES%7CNA%7CPLA%7c71700000034127206%7c58700003933017532%7c92700031758439054&gclid=CjwKCAjw5dnmBRACEiwAmMYGOd89Gch4wN1U3AIdXrYXCvzXEg138usz9m-WyJrUwa7-BUytuWFJVRoC6hsQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I think it's a great box.

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[working on it]

* Before you mount a nice-looking cooler on your tongue, consider using a more conventional tongue box up there, instead. While several TnTTT members have used coolers there, they've been steel, retro-looking types, not a plastic one. If you use that one there, you'd probably be tempted to use it as a cooler, and the constant motion would affect its' performance (sloshing, bouncing motions). If not serving as a cooler, then it probably is smaller inside than a comparable-exterior-sized box of conventional types. A decent cooler needs to be utilized as a cooler!
* I tried using a substitute box on my first trips, before I got my present one. It was a spare Husky toolbox I had, and used it to move my AGM battery to the tongue, for weight purposes. It was a bit small, but it held the battery and a few items of gear, though it looked a little bit too tiny, and not proportional to the trailer, so it was a temporary thing, until I found a proper sized conventional box. A fellow TnTTT member (Prem) located a box he thought would be right for me on Ebay, and pm'd me. At $100, it was worth a try, so I bought and installed it on a sliding platform on the tongue (with A-frame shaped outriggers for stability). It has worked great for many years now. A similar box is listed on Ebay now for $114 https://www.ebay.com/itm/29-Heavy-Duty-Aluminum-Tool-Box-Truck-Storage-Underbody-Truck-Trailer-Tongue-/382149070510, and on Amazon for $148 https://www.amazon.com/Aluminum-Trailer-Tongue-Underbody-Storage/dp/B072SVK62T/ref=sr_1_37?crid=X9N11O4NB73W&keywords=tongue+box+aluminum&qid=1557617889&s=gateway&sprefix=tongue+box%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-37.

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* Looks like a good cooler, and might be better used near your camp kitchen or transportable in your vehicle, without using the trailer. You can never have too many coolers (I use 4 presently)! and, you can never have too much storage (i.e. storage boxes, racks, tubes, etc), but that's another story.

• small toolbox is my only storage at first
• larger tongue box and racks and tubes and boxes, oh my!

[tearlurker]

I added the brackets. Now to get some rings and nylon straps and I’m good to go.

[gudmund]

warning - watch out when backing up!!, "BIG" tongue boxes with 'square' corners like these can cause damage to your vehicle quarter panels when backing up alone with just ending up with too-much tongue weight being the more 'space' you have - the "more stuff" you end up carrying!! just something to think about ..............................