What's in your pick-up?

2lumpy · Mar 1, 2017

Over the years I've collected a sort of minimum set of stuff to have in my pick-up, when I head out to scout or hunt. I did a little research to see what it might cost, if I had to buy it all at one time. At over $600, it's not peanuts but we pay tens of thousands for our trucks, it seems a small amount to raise the odds that you get home with our fenders on. If you shopped around you could get most of this stuff for half of retail, slightly used.

Here is my list, with the exception of the HiLift jack, and the coil of cable, it will all fit behind the rear seat and in a couple of 5 gallon buckets. I've use it all, at one time or another, over the years.

What's in your truck?

Level One
36" Crow/Wrecking Bar Home Depot $12

30' Tow Strap Home Depot $20

Tire Air Compressor Home Depot $47

Tire Plug Kit Home Depot $10

2 Tire Slim O'Reilly Auto $15

Heavy Duty Spade Shovel Home Depot $40

14" Folding Saw Home Depot $24

Bar-b-que Long Neck Lighter Home Depot $3

500 lumens LED FlashLIte Home Depot $18

Vice Grip O'Reilly Auto $20

Crescent Wrench Amazon $25
Total $234

Level Two
20 Ton Bottle Jack Home Depot $37

4 Ton Come-A-Long Home Depot $47

3/8" Chain 15 Ft. Ace Hardware $30

Steel Winch Cable w/Hooks Home Depot $76

Snatch Block Home Depot $24

Total $215

Level Three
Hi Lift Jack - Home Depot $69

3/8" Chain 75 Ft. Ace Hardware $139

Total $208

Grand Total $660

DC

264mag · Mar 1, 2017

Good stuff Lumpy.

elkassassin · Mar 1, 2017

My Old Huntin Rig Has More BS in it than I can List!

Misc everything!

Bungee's!

3 Sets of Tire Chains!

Shovel!

Hot Dog Sticks!

Small Torch!

Misc Hand Tools!

Hammer!

Hydraulic Jack!

3/8 & 1/2 Socket Set!

Rope!

Come-a-long!

Ratchet Straps!

Several Slings!

A Few Clevis's!

Chainsaw Sharpener & Tools !

Heavy Duty Jumper Cables!

An Ax!

Different Size Toe Balls!

Too Much other BS to List!

It's in there!

All you gotta do is Find it!

Even a Couple Old Elk Sheds from last year!

My Signature is a Short Clip of NVB & His Coal Roller!
"We Better Get out of the F'N Way cuzz Ole NVB is Coming to MF'N Town"!

hounddawgs · Mar 1, 2017

Tire chains all 4 , shovel, maul , 2 20' Web slings, shackles, first aid kit and whatever else I have in my backpack that I take with me, winter time snowshoes

mntman · Mar 1, 2017

full set of chains, straps, come-a-long, two tow straps, shovel, a few misc snacks/couple water bottles. extra jacket, fire starting stuff, headlamp and flashlight, spare batteries, binocs, gps, gloves, knives.
Might be forgetting something, would like a on board/portable air compressor one day though.

a friend of mine carries a sump pump, not sure why but one day we needed it at his kids house

He seems like a magician, same as my dad. Not sure how they hide all that stuff in their trucks and still have room, I guess it comes with age

Mntman

"Hunting is where you prove yourself"

Zeke · Mar 2, 2017

I like to keep mine cleaned out and rely on the next guy down the road to help me...especially when there's no way I'm prepared to help anyone else!

Sound familiar to some guys you've run into?

Zeke

BeanMan · Mar 2, 2017

LAST EDITED ON Mar-02-17 AT 12:26PM (MST)[p]What's the long nosed lighter for? I can never make them work reliabljy.

deadibob · Mar 2, 2017

> My Old Huntin Rig Has
>More BS in it than
>I can List!
>
>Misc everything!
>
>Bungee's!
>
>3 Sets of Tire Chains!
>
>Shovel!
>
>Hot Dog Sticks!
>
>Small Torch!
>
>Misc Hand Tools!
>
>Hammer!
>
>Hydraulic Jack!
>
>3/8 & 1/2 Socket Set!
>
>Rope!
>
>Come-a-long!
>
>Ratchet Straps!
>
>Several Slings!
>
>A Few Clevis's!
>
>Chainsaw Sharpener & Tools !
>
>Heavy Duty Jumper Cables!
>
>An Ax!
>
>Different Size Toe Balls!
>
>Too Much other BS to List!
>
>
>It's in there!
>
>All you gotta do is Find
>it!
>
>Even a Couple Old Elk Sheds
>from last year!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>My Signature is a Short Clip
>of NVB & His Coal
>Roller!
>"We Better Get out of the
>F'N Way cuzz Ole NVB
>is Coming to MF'N Town"!
>
>

HaHa! you said toe balls ;-)

Homer · Mar 2, 2017

All that....plus Beanie wienies.....

2lumpy · Mar 2, 2017

Yep Zeke, in the early years, I was one of those guys you're referring to.

I learned, little by little, from sad experience what to have with me so I didn't need to wait on a good neighbor, to come find me. Cuz some times it was a long wait or a long walk.

As cheap as the Level One stuff is, especially if you do a little checking on KSL Classified, Craigs list, or other used add locations, you can purchase most of this stuff for a lot less than new.

I think every Dad, should try to make sure every son and daughter that heads out in to the field, on their own, in our truck or their own, goes with at least Level One stuff and knows how to use it.

By the time my kids were sixteen and older I never could figure out what to get them for birthdays and Christmas, I should have been filling the back of their trucks with these items. I know some Dads do but I didn't and I should have. Everyone of them has needed it on numerous occasions.

DC

2lumpy · Mar 2, 2017

Same thing as any other lighter BeanMan. I keep a Bics in my glove box and but if I can only have one, I like the longer reach and I can hold it on indefinitely, without frying my thumb. I've cussed them a time or two but always been able to get them to light after a good wrestling match, if they aren't out of butane. Mostly never had a problem. Just a minor convenience to have a long reach.

What do you carry?

DC

DeerMadness · Mar 2, 2017

I was definitely happy I carried a saw and tow strap when a wind gust blew a huge tree blocking the road on a late hunt. It would have been lots more time to walk out for help.

eelgrass · Mar 2, 2017

Two harmonicas. One in the key of A and one in the key of D, in case I get stranded.

Stonefly · Mar 2, 2017

hide a key

hank4elk · Mar 3, 2017

...dirt.

mntman · Mar 3, 2017

>hide a key

yep forgot that, I have one tide up underneath with wire. Locked myself out twice, never again..

One time had to throw a boat anchor through my window, other time was able to get a ride.

Mntman

"Hunting is where you prove yourself"

feddoc · Mar 3, 2017

>full set of chains, straps, come-a-long,
>two tow straps, shovel, a
>few misc snacks/couple water bottles.
>extra jacket, fire starting stuff,
>headlamp and flashlight, spare batteries,
>binocs, gps, gloves, knives.
>Might be forgetting something, would like
>a on board/portable air compressor
>one day though.
>
>a friend of mine carries a
>sump pump, not sure why
>but one day we needed
>it at his kids house
>

He seems like a
>magician, same as my dad.
>Not sure how they hide
>all that stuff in their
>trucks and still have room,
>I guess it comes with
>age

>
>Mntman
>
>"Hunting is where you prove yourself"
>

Same here with air compressor and sat phone. I'm getting too old to do romantic stuff like drive until I get stuck...

Longun · Mar 4, 2017

Everything except the kitchen sink....

1911 · Mar 4, 2017

Jug of hydrocarbons.

elkassassin · Mar 5, 2017

>Jug of hydrocarbons.
>

Hey 1911!

Make sure it's the Newer Blue Hydrocarbons!

The Obama approved BS won't last no time at all!

My Signature is a Short Clip of NVB & His Coal Roller!
"We Better Get out of the F'N Way cuzz Ole NVB is Coming to MF'N Town"!