Cybertent tips and tricks

[hemiarch]

Wow, I hadn't heard of t-mats, but this is kind of amazing. And I was literally just chatting with chatgpt about ways to organize my camping gear lol. If you have a sec, a few questions -

1. In another thread I read they're about 1cm high - and it sounds like the husky boxes won't fit under the tent with them - does that match your experience?

2. With the full bed t-mat, and the tent fully deployed, will the mat slide out between the tent legs? Or are the legs not wide enough to let it slip between?

3. When you have a bunch of heavy-ish stuff on the mat, can you really just slide it out like a drawer? Or is there too much friction to make it easy to slide? (again thinking of the full mat, but any experience would be great)

4. Is the top slippery? Like, if you put a plastic box on top, is it going to slide around, or is it similar to the truck bed surface, or...? I get you can use the t-mat blocks to hold stuff in place, just wondering about the general slipperiness without them.

A dude after my own heart. Thinking about organizing camping gear is actually my dad hobby/superpower.
1. The husky boxes are hair tall with the clear lid on. They fit but are awkward to get in and out and you’ll eventually break the awesome clear top you bought them for. Rux bags work better.
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They are crazy expensive but you really only need one two or three depending on what you want to put under the tent. A box with a side opening drawer like Milwaukee packout facing the tailgate would also be good. Or any mix of the two. Just another access option. That said, I have given up on using boxes under there because I have better uses for that space. I pack a bluetti apex 300 and 6 allpowers 600w solar panels as well as one of my two rinse kit pro’s which is 3.5 extra gallons of water, a Milwaukee m18 tire inflator, an axe and a shovel down there. Basically the things I unpack last when I camp. The apex 300 runs my subtrunk freezer. I use it as a freezer because that too doesn’t require frequent access. I use the cabin fridge as a “fridge” and can monitor the freezer by Bluetooth.
Will get to the rest of the questions in short order, just a little tied up.

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[hemiarch]

Ok…so the purpose of the apex 300 is that with those solar panels I can charge at 5 miles an hour about 10hrs a day. I live in Arizona so your “mileage” may vary. If I use the bed plugs with reckless abandon for air conditioning cooking and heating water at night I’m still net positive about 40 miles a day.
2. yes and no. It will slide out because you can make the tailgate end as narrow as you want. The bed is sort of wider around the subtrunk lid than in the back. But there isn’t a point. In a regular bed slide it’s very stiff and can extend beyond the tailgate a lot but that’s not what the tmat is good at. The legs are not very far back from the tailgate and so that would o ly gain you a few inches of excursion. Not enough to be worth the hassle.
Also remember the process of folding the tent. Lifting up the front third of the tent is very easy if you need access under it or to allow the tmat to clear.
3 yes. On a bare bed it slides astonishingly well.
4. The top is less grippy than a bare bed but that’s completely negated by the ability to use little things James into the x’s. Not just t-mat but aftermarket Etsy ones that are way smaller and more efficient.

 

[gregr]

Ok…so the purpose of the apex 300 is that with those solar panels I can charge at 5 miles an hour about 10hrs a day. I live in Arizona so your “mileage” may vary. If I use the bed plugs with reckless abandon for air conditioning cooking and heating water at night I’m still net positive about 40 miles a day.
2. yes and no. It will slide out because you can make the tailgate end as narrow as you want. The bed is sort of wider around the subtrunk lid than in the back. But there isn’t a point. In a regular bed slide it’s very stiff and can extend beyond the tailgate a lot but that’s not what the tmat is good at. The legs are not very far back from the tailgate and so that would o ly gain you a few inches of excursion. Not enough to be worth the hassle.
Also remember the process of folding the tent. Lifting up the front third of the tent is very easy if you need access under it or to allow the tmat to clear.
3 yes. On a bare bed it slides astonishingly well.
4. The top is less grippy than a bare bed but that’s completely negated by the ability to use little things James into the x’s. Not just t-mat but aftermarket Etsy ones that are way smaller and more efficient.

This is super helpful - thanks!!

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