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Do you all usually put Rig rails on your dog boxes yourselves? I would like to train my dog how to strike coon from an s 10 pickup. i only have one dog so i dont have a dog box that i could put a rig on. So im just wondering if anyone has any ideas on how i could make some sort of a makeshift rig that works like a normal onewould on top of a dog box. Bascially something where my dog could move to both sides of the truck bed but not jump enough slack to jump out and hang himself. Any ideas would be great. Thanks

ALEX u gotta license sucka riggem out the front window? just put a chain from one side of your bed with a short one in middle short enough that he can't jump out! Man you won't need Super Dave no more,no excuses for not coming up and hunting Just kidding about Dave good dude! addios muchacho.

Tiny Santana

Robb, im origanally from Half.Moon.Bay , but know in Oroville.

Tiny

to funny I know half moon bay well use to hangout at the bar in the Moss Beach Distillery

Robb

Alex

We don't use rails on our dogbox. Just rig them right off the top. We screwed/glued down some indoor/outdoor carpet. You can then drill a hole through the top and put a screw with the ring on it (forgive me I can't think of what they are called) my dogs are short enough I then just attach a coupler to it and then onto them. Voila they are rigging We just run a tie strap with knots in it over the dogbox and then to the hooks in the bed of the truck. It also helps to hold the box still if it doesn't fit snug. We attach our couplers in-between the knots to keep the dogs from sliding over.

My dogs have never rigged with rails on... Just have never got around to making them. We can rig 3 dogs with no problems of anyone falling off of the box.

Here is a picture.. Not a great one.. We use to use leashes until we figured out the couplers work better for our shorter dogs. In this picture we still had the leashes.


I have also rigged them out of the back of the truck. I just tied them with a coupler to the hooks in the bed of the truck. They are too short for the dogs to jump out.. They don't get to move around as much but it works.

Don't you have a shop class in school that you can build a dogbox in?

If you dont plan on building a box and your going to use your S10 for a hunting pickup I would put a eye bolt in the center of the hood and put some snap rivets on some carpet end attach to hood, the snap rivets are like the ones used to hold the soft top on in a jeep. Several guys use this method out here for riggin bear, theyclaim the sent comes up over the hood and allows them to stike more old tracks on the road. you can just use a short piece of chain and swivel snap to keep the dog on. I believe if I rigged at night I would use this method, can be difficult to keep an eye on your dogs when in the back. I spend alot of time counting feet bear hunting. I can Id most every dog I owne buy there feet.

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You'll stop doing that when you run over one of your best dogs. )


Bearkiller, I sure hope nothing happens but so far so good. One day I'll probably kick myself in the a$$, and say I wished I would have listend to ya. I just like it when I get out the truck and each dogs looking at me with that, is he gonna let me down this time look on their faces. It tells me their thinking.

i do about like melanie does- just best to not attract anymore attention than I have too- i dont need a rig rail 90% of the time altho it does keep them on their feet longer --

last box i had with a rig rail-- rail was a tube steel frame to a backseat of an old junk car i found in the woods- -just welded a couple rings and attached snaps -- bolted it down

was very light and plenty strong enuff - was like it was made to fit my dog box--- lot of people asked me where i had that made-


detroit i think lol