sweaty toolboxes

[thattreeguy]

My man cab truck,
personeel carrier cab sweats or gets condensation on the walls and ceiling real bad.

There are 2 or 3 small mesh vents on the walls, and a sliding window up top,any suggestions?
The gear is always cold and damp, and thats not pleasant.

 

[lumberjack]

Condensation is from a temperature differential (dew point). Ventilation should help, but rain water wouldn't.

 

[Wagnaw]

hang a couple of cheese cloth bags filled with kittie litter or desiccator gravel of some sort. We had a "dry cabinet" in my old chem lab that we kept open containers of kitty litter, which would absorb any moisture in the air. Trouble is you'd have to dry it, which you can do in your oven, but the container just needs to not catch fire.

 

[stig]

Get a cabin heater.
Mine keeps my cab nice and dry, even when the dogs sit in there and breathe.

 

[Altissimus]

Pelican Cases .... Durable , comes with small moisture purge valve, works sweet , not sweat ...

 

[MasterBlaster]

Just drill some ventilation holes.

Are you talking about a toolbox or the cab?

 

[Al Smith]

The inside fills with cool air during night time .When the warm air from day time enters the box it can't hold the moisture .Same deal as a building only smaller .

 

[sotc]

My man cab truck,
.

that just sounds wrong ive never seen them with out a heater, that and the vents should do the trick

 

[thattreeguy]

the heater that went in it is MIA any suggestions on where to purchase one?

 

[Al Smith]

Most of those man cabs,cabooses ,crummies whatever you want to call them are not as well insulted as the truck cab .Thus the moisture deal .

I've seen them set up with a heater that comes right off the engine coolant just like the regular cab heater . School buses used the exact same type if that helps any .

 

[sotc]

any radiator shop that repairs radiators should be able to fab some thing up for you

 

[Jonseredbred]

Are we talking man cab or tool box?

 

[sotc]

first post

 

[rfwoodvt]

Try Northern Tool on line. the other place is JC Whitney.

They both should have "Cab Heaters"

I'd recommend the ones that tap into your radiator system with a heater core and fan.

 

[arborworks1]

Forestry equipment of shelby has lots of those parts for the ex asplundh trucks, should be a close fit if its not the same thing.

 

[thattreeguy]

yes its a man cab and thank you for the leads on where to get a heater

once installed what do you do run it each morning for an hour or so?

 

[darkstar]

Since we are on this topic.
I can get chip trucks with the man cab cheaper then i can find just a plain chip truch.
I dont really want the man cab, seems like wasted chip space but there are great deals on them.
I was just looking at a really nice one for sale at 4 k.
We need a plain chip truck next summer really bad.

 

[Jonseredbred]

I would just run the exhaust into the mancab to dry it out.

 

[Jonseredbred]

Here's a chip truck for sale.


http://gypoclimber.com/showthread.php?t=11249

 

[thattreeguy]

the man cab is cool for all our rigging and climbing gear.
Every tool we need except the pole chainsaw will fit in the trucks cab and tool boxes nicely.
But i can only have that 10 ft box instead of a 14ft, so on big jobs ya got to dump a bit more