Anybody ever used a Jockey Box at their tailgate?

How many feet of tubing did ya'll use? Looks like you can go anywhere from 50ft up to 120ft...obviously the longer, the colder your beer will be from the tap. I'm looking at one with 70ft of tubing...I think that will be plenty, especially as we get later into the season.

Basically, you cut 2 holes in a cooler and put coiled stainless steel line inside, which can be varying lengths. At one hole (on the front of the cooler) you put a beer tap/pour spout, on the back you have a connection that goes to the keg tap and CO2 tank. Fill the cooler with ice so that it cools the stainless coils. Beer goes from the room temp keg through the length of coil, cooling as it passes through, until it reaches the tap ice-cold. That's the gist of it...pretty ingenious, and alot easier than icing down a keg in a trash can and having to pump the thing every time you want a beer.

To paraphrase Les, I'm on the back side of my keg days , but I like the concept.

You just answered your question.

With or without a jockey box you still have to push the beer. You would need a CO2 tank

Yeah the one I'm looking at has steel tubing and has the hookup for the CO2 tank already, just have to get a tank and get it filled and I'll be good to go.

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alot easier than icing down a keg in a trash can

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Umm, from the instructions part of your link...

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Kegs must be cold to dispense beer correctly; Warm kegs serve foamy beer.

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That and temperature affects the amount of dissolved co2 in the beer. Not a problem if you're drinking it in one day.

I know the parts required to make this are all over ebay, but does anyone know of a local place (BR,nola,north shore) that would be a one stop shop for something like this?

We're about to purchase the setup for our tailgate, but give that we're days away from game one, will probably be going old school the first week..... unless there is some place to get these supplies locally. Anyone know of a place?