Chuck box legs

Well I'm working on designing a chuck box. It's going to be fairly large and be my main food prep counter top and storage for cast iron spices and dishware. But I can't figure out what to do for the legs. So I'm asking you to show me how y'all make your chuck box stand. And how it does on slightly uneven terrain.
 

llamalander

Well-known member
I found a folding metal sawhorse with adjustable legs at a big box store.
My kitchen has clips on the bottom to secure it to the horse. Not inexpensive but very solid-
Breaks down and folds up easily, not in the way if I want to put the box on a table or my tailgate.
 

Honu

lost on the mainland
Well I'm working on designing a chuck box. It's going to be fairly large and be my main food prep counter top and storage for cast iron spices and dishware. But I can't figure out what to do for the legs. So I'm asking you to show me how y'all make your chuck box stand. And how it does on slightly uneven terrain.

saw a wood setup before that used some wall type pipe clamps on the outside total 4 on each side with a wood cleat at the top and conduit legs that would just slide up in and then hit the cleat each leg had a bit of a angle like river rafting boxes which is also something to google some of the aluminum kitchen boxes used for river rafting

no adju on mine but I just kick out a bit of dirt to the tall leg and it has worked so far but if it was on rock or something :) good luck hahahha


I have one very handy very nice and they use aluminum pipe and pipe inside
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Herbie

Rendezvous Conspirator
I used a $25 folding metal sawhorse from Harbor Freight. It was wider than my chuckbox, but I was able to cut about 6" out of the middle and still have the legs fold into it if they were collapsed all the way down. This provided a very wide and stable footprint, and having each leg individually adjustable made it great for uneven surfaces.

For a long time, I just ran with the two halves of the sawhorse (post-cut) bolted to the bottom of my chuckbox.
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The negatives of having it bolted to the bottom of the box were (1) it made the box really heavy to move around and setup, and (2) it prevented the option of setting the chuckbox on a picnic table or bear-box.

So instead I welded the two halves back together and added some end-flanges with butterfly latch catches so I could remove the stand from the box:
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With the legs separate, I could get them setup and adjusted, then set the box on top and fasten the latches. With the relatively small top-surface for the box to sit on, attaching the box to the legs was fairly important. You can see that the "work surface" of my chuckbox is cantilevered out from the sawhorse, so if the box isn't fastened down, it tends to want to tip off while I'm slicing, etc.
 
I'm thinking I'm going to build on the chef stove legs. I can get the levelers for the bottom to give me some adjustment.
Just gotta figure out how I'll attach them. It'll probably cost a little more than the sawhorse idea but I already have the storage bag for my camp chef stove so the legs will tuck right in that without taking any extra space.
Thanks for the ideas
 

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