Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Alaska Do you like having a "basket" on ATV ??

Yes or No and Front or Back. I bought a front basket, came today. I just it on the front, got on the ATV and was surprised how much forward view it blocked. I might just mount it on the back.

If mounted on the front, might be a large problem pulling the dash off, to change a fuse. Would super suck to have to disassemble the basket in the field then pull the dash off.

I don't have one on mine, but I sure wish I did. I will have one on there before next season.

Front or back? You can keep your eyes on stuff in a front basket. If something comes loose you can address it before it bounces out. However there is more room on the back for a bigger basket to haul more stuff. Maybe front and back is the answer.

4 Wheeler with a basket and a basket lid that's pretty handy for a workbench out in the pasture and a quickie shooting bench.

DF

Seen lots of milk crates bungied.

I don’t even have an ATV presently, but when I did I always had a 4 or 5” fence around the back. I will probably do the same when I get the next one. My main issue is I had shoulder surgery this spring and had my shoulder rebuilt. I’m not sure I can still drive one even with power steering. I think if I decide I can still drive an ATV I will be adding a rack extension. I think they are a good idea.

I got a Honda box on my Can-Am I don't like a box on the front unless I can open it up from the seat side I didn't find a box anywhere I really liked my kid turned me out of this one it needs a bunch of improvement a regular basket up front I think my kids got some plastic rubber box up there we're in the back or in the back see if I can get pics

Not Alaska but that doesn't matter - same here. Milk crate strapped with a notch cut for the bar of the chain saw. Pert handy really.

With lids too. And if filled with beer and a lid, quite the cooler in the next stream we come upon..

I like steel mesh basket racks front and rear, like what Dirtfarmer has pictured. As to the drop-style rear basket, I've had them and the flat style, and generally go wit the flat ones. Keep 2-3 rubber bungees hooked on each basket, along with a couple of small ratchet straps in the bike's storage box.

No basket-man purse for this fkn prick. Never buy an atv from a musher.

I need to move dog houses, skid slabs up high, bulky tools, AK millers slinging 42" bars and fkn country fried long tails.

Yes, front.

Cut down milk crate on the front, flat extension rack on the rear.

DF doesn't all the stuff in the drop basket get muddy ??

A lot of folks here will line the drop basket with something to fend off most of the mud, otherwise, yeah, all your stuff gets filthy.

my Polaris 4-WHEELER has a plastic enclosed front box that is part of the my 4x4 and i have this enclosure full of tools , i also have a heavy metal basket on top of that tool box too that i carry tools as needed or my rifle. i work and hunt with this 4x4 in Northern Minnesota by the Canadian border ,within 50 miles of the Polaris factory.

A "keep this for me awhile? - use it like it's yours!", Kawasaki 650 Brute we have here has a big plastic lidded box on the rear that we have found useful at times and not so much at times. It was real handy for hauling white quartz rocks off the mountain over 3 seasons of caribou hunting out of Fairbanks. Really spiffed up our rock work here at home on the Kenai. I took the gun holders off the front rack as they were just in the way. Caribou hunting with 3 machines, it's handy for carrying water, lunch, dressing gear, rain gear, and other like stuff. And rocks off the mountain! :)One such equipped machine is all that's needed tho, for us.

The 350 Rancher I used for 7 years in Kotzebue, then since, down here is stock, and I once got two caribou on it that way, one on front, one on back, with the front legs stuffed inside the rib cage for the 7 mile trip home. Don't know if the commercial flat baskets would have hindered or helped, but the rear drop basket would have hindered in the rough going until the beach section.

The Yamaha Kodiak 700 is also stock, though my wife keeps talking about a rear platform for the current big dog (who wouldn't ride in it anyway). I did have a home built, wood, foot-high "lipped", and padded rear platform that I built for the Lab to ride on when in Kotzebue, groceries, etc that I could put on and off quickly. He had no issues doing so. I usually left it on for hunting.

I have "waiting in the wings" one large wire, and one large plastic milk crate (roughly 14X24 I can use if needed, but haven't to date. I haven't really looked for a source for the commercial baskets up here, but they are unshippable from on-line. At least not easily or inexpensively, so it's just not worth it to me.

My cousin used a milk crate with bungies going from one side to the other, hanging down inside the crate that his beer cooler would ride on.


He called it his "suspension cooler" because he didn't want to "get white caps in the sauce."

I use something like a large ammo crate..the ammo box of tools, fencing pieces, pipe fittings, hose clamps, nuts, bolts, electrical tape, starting fluid, liquid wrench, .22 shells with natural lapping compound applied in a natural way...etc.
The point I wish to make is the 'crate o' stuff' is of primary importance...the 4x4 beneath it is just a convenience for carrying the box o' stuff.
The Flintplace (think of Ma and Pa Kettle in the badlands) is just inhabitable because of the box o' stuff...without the box o' stuff, the water would dry up, the power line would fall down, the road (?) would wash out, the pine and juniper would choke other living things, ground squirrels would assume the size and numbers of wildebeeste. Only the box o' stuff keeps the land from a return to it's uninhabitable natural dismal state.

I have a wooden box that I built for the front of my Traxter. Made of plywood with reinforced corners. 43" long, 15" wide and 9" deep with a couple of drain holes in the corners. Held on by two bolts. A slot is cut in each end to let a chainsaw bar hang out. Its been on the Traxter for 23 years.

I like a flat rack . I use black truckers rope, it streches like a bunge. 25 ft on the back, and about 20 on the front. I strech it snug across and wrap around the bars. Thats ten runs across the rack, with some crossways. Just lift a couple strands up and stuff anything, from milk cartons, packs, chainsaws, even deer. Automatically strapped down and won't move! I tried the box thing, front and back, to much agility seemed lost, when riding.