How is your Milk Crate Setup / Tricked Out?

[rob.mwpropane]

I dive NE.. I have come to love a good milk crate. Huge fan of the slightly longer rectangle shaped ones. I have some ideas how I would like to to incorporate some bungee for fins on the outside and someone mentioned "all thread" inside to clip everything to.. might do that.

Anyone else have any ideas? Anyone else have any aspirations to also own a tricked out milk crate and be the talk of the dive boat? Who knows, maybe you already are and you need to clue me on on your trade secrets!... would love to get some different ideas.

Ideally my end goal (that I sort of have now) is to have a crate for wet stuff on the bottom and one for dry stuff stack on top. Because I clip everything to the top I end up stacking wet stuff over dry stuff. I don't like it.

Thanks, happy diving!!!!

 

[Divin'Papaw]

I too like the slightly lower & rectangular "milk crates". I use the Light Monkey one.

As to "tricking it out", I guess I'm just boring. I don't use my crate for dry stuff. I have a dry bag for that. So everything simply goes back into the crate. Back at the car the wet stuff gets transferred to a wet gear tub so that it does not get salt water into my vehicle.

 

[rhwestfall]

We use these:

They stack on each other, lock together, and you can get wheeled boxes for them too.

Great modular system. Lots of ways to rig anchor points in them too...

 

[formernuke]

Pictures?

 

[rob.mwpropane]

Here is a picture someone sent me a while ago.

@Divin'Papaw I just like being able to stack one over the other in whatever vehicle I'm using and I can see everything. On the boat it goes down below where we all change.. milk crate / duffel bag / dry bag are practically the same size.

@rhwestfall I like that, not sure how the charters would feel about the one with wheels though, looks a little bulky.

I'll have to take a picture of mine.

 

[PEDiver]

I really like the larger, more rectangular ones. I have one I primarily use which has a loop of bungee going down the long side to clip off spools, reels, lights, etc. I have not rigged it up to carry fins since I would rather just lay them on top. But a crate > dive bag IMO. I just throw everything in there after a dive and rinse it right in the crate and then let it dry. It also takes up less space on a dive boat than the oversized bags everyone seems to carry - only once did I have a DM laugh at the crate and told me I should get a bag. But he was a royal **** so...

 

[happy-diver]

A heavy hard plastic box, just right for pulling and straining our glorious temple in all the wrong directions

Or spread the load drape from your shoulders with the weight going directly downwards no strain at all


Yeah everyone wants a deformed fin foot pocket
Stolen milk crates are for sitting and standing on


Mesh bags like mum then store them in a pocket

 

[mje113]

Crazy timing on this post, I just set this up today:

Based on this video:

 

[rhwestfall]

@rhwestfall I like that, not sure how the charters would feel about the one with wheels though, looks a little bulky

Wheels don't go on the charters. They do however make a great trolley from the car to the boat, or on a shore dive...

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Wow! All I use a milk crate for is storing a lot of extra lead weights. I normally just use a five gallon plastic bucket for all my superfluous dive crap because they are round and don’t have a very big footprint.
You guys might be onto something here though.