My Steel Tray Build - Built completely in my backyard! 

Here in USA. Awesome job. Inspired the heck out of me.

Thanks for sharing the build. I am an old retired Aussie playing with a toy 1/10 remote control truck and intend to use your build as a base for my scale crawler flatbed. Thanks again, stay safe.

This is probably a little bit presumptuous, but every Australian and new Zealander must be a decent human. I'd doubt such a claim, but after every interaction of them coming through Alaska, they have always been just top tier. That bed looks great.

A top build. Got a LN 167 double cab. Really inspired me to build one.

The lights look great too!

Love the build mate!

Great job on the build and the video! I’m in the USA and love watching these flatbed builds.

...Also I noticed your plumbing hanging out from the water tank as most would know these standard conventional hose & tap fittings eventually leak, even the more expensive ones. It probably does not really matter on the ute as you not operating with mains pressure. But with water out in the bush where I might not be able to get more with in easy reach, I have been using hose link fittings & these things are awesome. I have left the garden hose on full bore for over a week & zero leak, they are durable & last even longer than the most expensive ones. Australian company & reasonably priced last I looked.

This is exactly how i want my tray to look when i get my ute, awesome job bro, looks amazing

Looks great. Not so much of a 'sleeper' look with a tray like that but way more functional for what you were after.

Looks great, given me inspiration to try my own. Thanks.👍

Very nice rig and tray build!

Not too shabby mate, keep up the build 👌🏾

Beautiful work well done Watching from Boston USA

if you redid it make pockets for stake sides on the tray and put them in as your reinforcement between the tray slider and the tray

Awesome video mate, never seem to let us down. A full inspiration to build my own for luxy, cheers 👍

Great video and great build!!! Thanks for sharing! This is giving me some ideas for my pickup truck 🤔

Awesome video, definitely given me a few ideas for my tray build. Cheers mate 👍👌🤘

That looks clean af

Nice work!

Great to see your back mate, would love to see a custom front bar build

Looks the goods mate ! , TJ

Awesome tray MATEY material look strong and the build✔️✔️ amazing what can be done in the back yard with basic tools👌. Love the Vice on the Fence Post😅.

Got a new sub mate, love your work man, I always love seeing people like yourself doing this sort of stuff. I don’t have mechanical/engineering bone in my body so I get a real kick out of these videos. Keep it up

Wow that is absolutely fireeee ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 great work man

Awesome.

love it

Your neighbors must love you.

Nice mate, looks great and strong too. Planning to do one for my own ln106 soon-ish. Canopy for camping trips, etc...

sick bro, tray looks good

Looks good mate nothing you can’t work out. Times the key

great ute mate! gonna do something similar to my first gen tacoma

Awesome job you can put a camper on the back and do anything

Mint vid

Truck looks amazing and bed looks amazing .... but all im thinking about is the hot sun beaming down on the black truck bed turning it into a giant skillet for your eggs xD

Gday, looks bloody good, it’s a shit load of work making videos, adds a heap of time to your build to, you did a really good job mate, cheers

In the USA. Love the lights! I’m trying to get ideas for a flat bed build and this is probably my favorite ones so far. Where did you find the lights?

I build trays for a living and bro this has turned my designs to shit lol good work brother looks sick best 96 hilux tray I have seen

Good to see your grandad helping out.

Awesome work mate! And I love how you show you don't need a big fancy shed with a hoist and all the other expensive stuff that come with it. Where did you learn your fab skills tho? Are you self taught or have you worked as a fabricator?

Man, ya Aussie have it good, while just a slights mod on our car and the gov would chase us till the wormhole 😂

Where are the tail lights from? The tray looks amazing. Thanks for sharing!

I like the clean look you have achieved. It will almost always be that there will be things that you would do differently. I take the view if it still bothers me then it just means I am not finished :0) @ some point I will build a full tray for my 2nd project. But on my daily drive I have chosen to modify what is already there as it is not too "grandpa (as I have heard you put it). I have struggled to get it to look right especially with additions like a 50% length rear under tray storage compartment. I thought as I am not going full length, I could save on weight with it not being a conventional draw slide tool box. I have seen many of those rear draw slide tool boxes & the doors look too "Grandpa for my liking. I am well more grandpa than you so I am a bit self conscious & cringy of it So I am trying to customize out as much of the grandpa as I can.

heavy duty

found a tray on marketplace for 350 because i didnt trust my main supports welding that im going to rebuild but by the looks of it, almost should've just started from scratch

👍👍👍

Awesome mate, just about to start a custom tray build on my old 1984 YN65 Hilux. I will be putting the build on my channel “Shed To Beach”. Your build has given me plenty of motivation, and you have got yourself a new subscribe mate, keep up the great videos 👌

Great vid. Inspiring. (music is a bit loud compared to voice.)

are chevy 63inch leaf springs on these a thing in Australia? also curious about those front springs, they seem to have a uniball or somthing in front?

This is a perfect flatbed man! Guys like you give me motivation to complete mine! Would you be willing to share a link to those tail lights? Id love to use them in my own build if you don't mind to much

Awesome build, I think it is very well proportioned for the job. My brain won't stop sometimes, and I just wonder, has anyone out there drilled out the framework to make an air tank from it? Seems like a good place to store air from an on-board compressor? I would like a reply if anyone has done it, pro's and con's ?? I am wondering if it is worthwhile to try..

looks so good man, what paint did you use? and do you recommend it?

Hey mate , looks awesome good job. Where did ya get ya lights from ???

Wow that’s nice what spray did you use thank you

Bud always weld the tray underneath that’s what the body shops do

Tray looks awesome how much did it cost for all material if you don’t mind me asking, as I’m looking at rebuilding my tray but not sure where to start cheers 🤙

What are those tray lights. They look so good

Just wondering where you buy all the metal and stuff from

Hi mate looks bloody awesome where'd you get your taillights?

Cracking video mate what is the length and widenes of the tray cheers

hay mate, i am currently in the process of upgrading the back of my tray and was wondering what lights you have and where you have got them from?

Hey man just wondering what were your final two angles for those taillight pieces and how did you know how much to cut out to get the angle when you bent that main rear bar piece

Hey mate how did u mount the cargo box to your tray? Tray looks fkn sick btw

Where did you get the tail lights? Nice work!

How is the Weigth with that 3mm compared to the stock bed of the truck?

If you have the back so much lighter than the front doesn't that introduce grip issues or it's fine for offroading? Asking because I have never done this kind of stuff before but it looks wild to me.

What paint did you use for the tray?

Awesome build! What are those tail lights?

What sort of paint did you use for it mate?

where did you find those tail lights

Nice work - what did it end up weighing when complete, any idea?

i would’ve sprayed it with bed liner for more protection

Looks great! Do you have the drawings available for this build? I’d be happy to purchase from you. Cheers.

Lookin for an rig in aus.....im from usa...want to come travel 3 or 4 months a year....any help?? Thx tomk fdny✌

How do you get so much flex out of leafs man?

Those tail lights are sweet. Whats the link 4 them

Where did you buy the lights from

What type of taillights were those that you ended up going with?

Heyy mate what was your welding setup ?? Cheers

just wondering mate how much did all of this set you back $

what tail lights are they

can you share material/tube specifications

I will pay you to build a tray exactly like that for my 02 Luxy

What brand of tail lights?

I would of use galave spacers from bunings 5 bucks

Nice build! Where can I find those tail lights?

You’d be a nightmare to live next door to

Man's thats freaken awesome. Great build, what tail lights did you use ?