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So far I'm liking the one from lowes. The one from Amazon looks to big to fit the car with everything else, the one right above is a little pricey.
The Amazon one I linked to fit in the car I use, Prius, and is flat, to set up you post the little clips and it pops open, lock the center piece by pushing it up. To close it you pull the center handle while pushing a button on top then reach through get handles and pull it back together and everything folds up and locks. It took me 100 x longer to write the description than it does to do it, it’s an amazing design.
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you have a tailgate, slide the boots off the end, hit with deadblow hammer or lead weight. They come off.
Either way, standing them up in the tailgate and getting into them without boots is not an issue and how most of us do it
Do you have any pictures of your setup? I've been wanting to build something like this for my Forester and am just in the contemplative stage. I haven't drawn up any plans yet.
Here's what I built. Folding aluminum bench, some large diameter water pipe bolted down. I've since added rails made of flat stock to the sides to drop fins into and hang other items.
I use the tailgate of a pickup. Every time I use it, I can’t believe I didn’t buy a pickup sooner. Before I used an suv.
But sometime I can’t use the tailgate for remote shore diving sites, etc.
If you don’t want to buy a new vehicle or need something remote from your vehicle, you can use either of two small lifetime folding tables. It comes in two versions. One is about 16 inches high and the other is 30 inches. They can also serve double duty as regular tables.
They are quite sturdy for their size and light weight. The table surface is about 1.5 x 2 feet. This easily big enough for me to sit down and position a set of doubles. However, I do not leave anything like a set of doubles standing on them by themselves.
The lower one is for actually sitting down and taking off your gear. But you have to stand up from a sitting position with your gear on. The higher one is useful if you want a regular height table and don’t want to actually sit down to put on or off the gear.
The lower one is particularly useful as it is the same height sitting on the sidewalk as the bed of the truck, I used to have some furniture wheels on the bottom, so I could take doubles from the truck to the compressor without lifting them up at all. Since then, I now use a projector cart which Is sturdier and has built in wheels.
So now, I mostly take the lower table on trips. I carry it by hand to the local diveshops compressor room with the doubles on my back and set it up. I then sit down on the table and take them off. I can leave them on the table or put them on the floor easily since the table is so low. I can also move them from the floor to the table by pivoting them on the edge of the table. I will attempt to avoid doing a dead lift of 100 lbs anytime I can.
Time for another video.
But sometime I can’t use the tailgate for remote shore diving sites, etc.
If you don’t want to buy a new vehicle or need something remote from your vehicle, you can use either of two small lifetime folding tables. It comes in two versions. One is about 16 inches high and the other is 30 inches. They can also serve double duty as regular tables.
They are quite sturdy for their size and light weight. The table surface is about 1.5 x 2 feet. This easily big enough for me to sit down and position a set of doubles. However, I do not leave anything like a set of doubles standing on them by themselves.
The lower one is for actually sitting down and taking off your gear. But you have to stand up from a sitting position with your gear on. The higher one is useful if you want a regular height table and don’t want to actually sit down to put on or off the gear.
The lower one is particularly useful as it is the same height sitting on the sidewalk as the bed of the truck, I used to have some furniture wheels on the bottom, so I could take doubles from the truck to the compressor without lifting them up at all. Since then, I now use a projector cart which Is sturdier and has built in wheels.
So now, I mostly take the lower table on trips. I carry it by hand to the local diveshops compressor room with the doubles on my back and set it up. I then sit down on the table and take them off. I can leave them on the table or put them on the floor easily since the table is so low. I can also move them from the floor to the table by pivoting them on the edge of the table. I will attempt to avoid doing a dead lift of 100 lbs anytime I can.
Time for another video.
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Eagerly awaiting a video
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