O.K so I do a bit fly fishing and other camping type stuff so I had been thinking about how to set up a camper I could use when its just me and I don't want to pack a tent. After a while I started to think about the old school Hatch hutch type thing. So today I got a sheet of form ply and did some cutting.
You could build it all for around $200 but I made do with stuff I had floating around the shed.
The back of the jeep. I whipped out the seatbelts and set them aside in my tool box. I also pulled out the rear seat mount and set it aside for later.
The Ply. I used this stuff as I know its very strong and wont warp any time soon. Here it is marked out ready to cut. If you do it the way I've done here it will leave you with enough left over to make a start on some draws should you want to later on. Note I've marked it in White paint pen.
The reason for this is I have one of those skillet saws with the LAZER guide thingos. If you mark it with white then chuck on a pair of red safety glasses you can see the guide very well and get a nice clean cut.
I was working alone so I used the off cuts to help support as I was cutting.
Here we are with the first section fitted. I dug some longer bolts up from my tool box and drilled some holes in the ply so I cold bolt though the ply and into the seat mount points.
Next I got some tie down point bolts I had floating around the toolbox and fitted them to the second section of Ply.My plan was to use some tie downs and clip them on to the seat belt points then the eyes as a support. I cut both lenghts of base to 900mm long as I am a short arse and 900 fits the back of the jeep well. So you end up with 1800mm long base to work with. You can make it longer by going further toward the front seats but I wanted to keep that space for storage.
After fitting these I thought why not use the off cut I had used as a support while I was cutting as a brace under the end to give it some more strength while I was sitting on it or getting in and out
Next I cut out a small section for the door latch and the seat belt lower tabs.
Bit of a bugger about the chipping but I aint not carpenter!
This is what you come out with..
Next was just to place some piano hinge along the join and you are done. You could use any kind of hinge I just happened to have some floating around. For some reason the photo of this didn't come out but I get another one.
Thats about it really. Chuck in a swag add some tent polls and you are done.
I weigh 80kg and it has no problems with me sitting on the end to get in and out.