Foghorn Leghorn Alert!!!

[Mikeske]

Today I went into Harbor Freight to pick up some consumables (nitrile gloves and some drill bits) and I happen to walk by this guy that insisted that Harbor Freight had a 8' U.S. General Pro toolbox with the associate there. I kind of said well what is the item number and I wrote it down. I walk over to the store manager and asked him to look up the number on the Harbor Freight internal website does not have any listing.

This guy said he is going to call the 800 number and so he did and guess what the item number he provided did not exist at there also. So then the guy said that he help his buddy unload the 8' U.S. General Pro toolbox at his shop. I finally asked if he took any pictures of the box in the garage and he shows me the picture and it is the 72" box. He still insisted it was 8' but I finally just walked away.

The guy made enough noise to get several folks attention but who would ever need a 96" box.

 

[General Geoff]

Shocking, I know, but eyewitness testimony is hilariously unreliable.

 

[L.Cheapo]

The guy made enough noise to get several folks attention but who would ever need a 96" box.

Snap On makes 10' and 12' boxes, so there must be a market for them.

 

[MattPersman]

I was considering the 12 foot snap on Mr big EPIQ but after a little thought problem with items like that is first it’s roughly 25 grand list price. Sure probably get it for 15 or less. But then when you go to retire out of the business what young or middle of the road tech is gonna have or want a 12 foot box. Two if you move shops some places wouldn’t have that kind of space for you. Three unless you don’t want to park in your normal garage or build an out building that box is massive for a home.

It makes sense from storage stand point but you are better served getting an 84 and a 60 and putting them side by side


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[McFarmer]

"Fortunately I keep them numbered for just such emergencies."

 

[KnurledNut]

Sounds to me like he needed to pick up a HF tape measure....

 

[Maui]

His girlfriend would probably agree that his estimates of length are greatly exaggerated...

Maui

 

[Chevy-SS]

I was considering the 12 foot snap on Mr big EPIQ but after a little thought problem with items like that is first it’s roughly 25 grand list price. Sure probably get it for 15 or less. But then when you go to retire out of the business what young or middle of the road tech is gonna have or want a 12 foot box. Two if you move shops some places wouldn’t have that kind of space for you. Three unless you don’t want to park in your normal garage or build an out building that box is massive for a home.

It makes sense from storage stand point but you are better served getting an 84 and a 60 and putting them side by side ......

Damn, there's a LOT of common sense thinking going on there. I wish we could get out political leaders (on both sides) to use that type of analysis process!

His girlfriend would probably agree that his estimates of length are greatly exaggerated...

Maui

LOL......

 

[GTO]

6 foot is the new 8 foot...

 

[potato]

It's not how big it is, it's what you do with it.

 

[shanny19]

Damn, there's a LOT of common sense thinking going on there. :

+1. MattPersman, do you realize that you're in the 1% of guys who realize that their box isn't an "investment" and won't be worth what they paid for it to some schlub in 18 years??

 

[JRC3]

... but who would ever need a 96" box.

Maybe he was gonna go with something themed kinda like this.

 

[Schurkey]

Sounds to me like he needed to pick up a HF tape measure....

He probably is using a HF tape measure. The Chinese don't worry too much about accuracy...

 

[pepi]

Sounds to me like he needed to pick up a HF tape measure....

Yeah the same one the fishermen use ...............

 

[apollo11]

Sounds to me like he needed to pick up a HF tape measure....

His girlfriend would probably agree that his estimates of length are greatly exaggerated...

Maui

 

[Heavy Metal Doctor]

It makes sense from storage stand point but you are better served getting an 84 and a 60 and putting them side by side


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Exactly my thinking when I built up my set of boxes. That Mr. Big stuff is cool and do-able for a lot of guys in the right circumstances....but ragardless of all other factors you could think of, I never WANT to own anything too big for me to load out and move on my own in a reasonable amount of time / effort.

 

[crewchief888]

Exactly my thinking when I built up my set of boxes. That Mr. Big stuff is cool and do-able for a lot of guys in the right circumstances....but ragardless of all other factors you could think of, I never WANT to own anything too big for me to load out and move on my own in a reasonable amount of time / effort.

my thoughts and actions as well...

never had anything over 36" wide myself.

 

[Schurkey]

Exactly my thinking when I built up my set of boxes. That Mr. Big stuff is cool and do-able for a lot of guys in the right circumstances....but ragardless of all other factors you could think of, I never WANT to own anything too big for me to load out and move on my own in a reasonable amount of time / effort.

A Snap-On KR1000 was plenty big when I moved from one shop to another.

The Snap-On Guy moved it for me twice. Then I had a guy that delivered drums of oil and had a lift-gate on his double-front-wheel truck move it once.

The last time, I welded an angle-iron framework-and-chain system so I could lift it with an engine hoist, and transport it on a car-hauling trailer. Worked great!

 

[crewchief888]

i moved my work boxes 1200 miles in a 17ft uhaul, orlando to NWI.
loading was easy with the forklift. unlaoding by myself in mid january was a struggle.
2 months later i finally found a job, moved the kr550/555b in the back of my bronco, 2 trips on 2 seperate days.
moved my "home" boxes around several times with the truck and trailer.

i moved into a shop from my home garage, roller cabs, compressor, fridge ect went on a utility trailer, top boxes and the rest of the "stuff" in the back of my truck. year or so later i moved out of the shop back to my garage, did the same thing truck and trailer combo, but since i had acquired more "stuff" it wasnt 2 trips, but 4 to get it all moved, plus a trip to the scrapyard with the fridge and misc leftovers...

i'm a field mechanic, and still had a set of boxes sitting at the shop. when i started finding my pullers tossed around the shop, and not returned i decided to bring the boxes home.
loading in the back of my lifted truck was easy with a set of forks, but i swear them boxes are getting heavier every time i move them....


never seems to be anybody around when i need help....

 

[Mikeske]

i'm a field mechanic, and still had a set of boxes sitting at the shop. when i started finding my pullers tossed around the shop, and not returned i decided to bring the boxes home.
loading in the back of my lifted truck was easy with a set of forks, but i swear them boxes are getting heavier every time i move them....


never seems to be anybody around when i need help....

How true that everyone magically disappears when they are losing the guy that has all the tools they need. I found over 40 years of being a mechanic either on vehicles or aircraft that the old roller box was ten times heavier then I remember it was. Of course the first thing I had to do with before I retired and left my employer was remove 450 pounds of bucking bars from the lower cabinet. My co-workers did not want me to retire so after I opened and went to get a cup of coffee in the break area, I come back and they had it loaded in every drawer, bottom bay and on top of it. All that in a junked out old Waterloo 27" roller and top box. I was always the cheapo guy in the shop I just made due with what I had and never replaced until I had everything home and then bought a couple HF 44" rollers a couple side boxes, 1 top box and a locker for all the tools and stuff in my garage.

 

[Heavy Metal Doctor]

I helped my predecessor in my current job load out of our shop when he left and learned from him how to load a good sized KRL box into a car trailer. Then, when the shop moved, I moved all the shop's stuff (another KRL1xxx set up), and my own KRL1xxx box. Warehouse forklift and a car trailer is not too bad a job and I've always been part rigger and part Gypsy (once moved from one house to another in a horse trailer ). I learned how to handle those boxes and I believe I'm prepared for my current 84" and 68" Epiq boxes, but I'm at my limit and I specifically did NOT want to trade in for one of those aircraft carrier length single piece boxes.....I already thought about the fact that I could reorganize down to either single box if something happened, say, like having the shits of working in the city and slowing down to a simple Jiffy Lube kinda job as I get closer to retirement.