When I was gainfully employed, a pickup with a cross bed toolbox was standard equipment. Seems everything you put in the bed ended up under the toolbox out of reach. When several of us contractors had to meet to assess a project, the thing to do was toss your friends keys under his toolbox and then you would be the lead dog on the dirt roads. I now am older and jumping into the back is more like a man trying to get in a lifeboat. I bought one of those small fiberglass rods with a small orange flag that are on old people's bicycles. I cut the flag off and shortened the rod to 4' long. Bent a piece of #9 wire into an L shape and taped it to one end. This is my "come here" tool that eliminates the need to actually get into the truck bed. It is such a useful tool. If I didn't live in such a rural small town an incident several years ago could have had the swat team visit me. I was at the local gas station filling up several fuel cans. One of the gas can lids blew off my toolbox and ended up wedged between the bed and cab out of reach to retrieve. Tourist were everywhere and wanting a pump and I was blocking one of the few. This was before my come here stick which could have retrieved the cap in seconds. With nothing else available that was long enough to reach the cap, I retrieved my 30/06 from behind the seat and used it to dislodge the cap. Kind of a standard day for me. However, the tourists were not impressed with my problem solving abilities.
...Ben
...Ben
