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slanehouse

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I finally got all my Boxes together, after moving and being in storage. I have a total of $300 into these including fuel to go get them. Now just need a top box for the rolling chest to clean and stock.
I like this set up because I can use the entire top of taco cart as work space.
All of them around the 50 year old mark. Same age as myself.

KRA 379 1977 middle box
KRA 429A 1974 rolling chest
KR 274 1979 side box
KR 562 1976 taco cart
 

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Mike'smeatshop

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slanehouse said:
I finally got all my Boxes together, after moving and being in storage. I have a total of $300 into these including fuel to go get them. Now just need a top box for the rolling chest to clean and stock.
I like this set up because I can use the entire top of taco cart as work space.
All of them around the 50 year old mark. Same age as myself.

KRA 379 1977 middle box
KRA 429A 1974 rolling chest
KR 274 1979 side box
KR 562 1976 taco cart
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Very cool.
 
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I owned a taco cart in about 1984. I had a Mac top box bolted to the top of it. At that time, I worked for Lawrence Transfer, a moving company headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, but probably familiar to many of you. The garage was on two levels, and if you transferred from one level to the other, they would use a fork lift to take your box. I was transferring from the upper to the lower level, and the fork lift driver backed out of the bay. When he shifted to forward the box shifted and slipped off of the forks to the side, balanced on two wheels for a second, where it could have gone onto its side or landed on the wheels. It chose the wheels, but swung around and rolled, gathering momentum as it went, about a hundred feet and smashed into the radiator of a Freightliner cab over. The box hit so hard that the back wheels came off the ground about a foot, and it racked the boxes and threw tools everywhere. I don’t know if I ever got all of them back. Lawrence bought me another box, not a taco cart, though (my choice).
 
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Ricky Joe said:
I owned a taco cart in about 1984. I had a Mac top box bolted to the top of it. At that time, I worked for Lawrence Transfer, a moving company headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, but probably familiar to many of you. The garage was on two levels, and if you transferred from one level to the other, they would use a fork lift to take your box. I was transferring from the upper to the lower level, and the fork lift driver backed out of the bay. When he shifted to forward the box shifted and slipped off of the forks to the side, balanced on two wheels for a second, where it could have gone onto its side or landed on the wheels. It chose the wheels, but swung around and rolled, gathering momentum as it went, about a hundred feet and smashed into the radiator of a Freightliner cab over. The box hit so hard that the back wheels came off the ground about a foot, and it racked the boxes and threw tools everywhere. I don’t know if I ever got all of them back. Lawrence bought me another box, not a taco cart, though (my choice).
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Probably a good choice not getting another one. My dads had to be replaced 3 times due to the wheels breaking and welds failing.
 
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mp23 said:
Probably a good choice not getting another one. My dads had to be replaced 3 times due to the wheels breaking and welds failing.
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I was impressed how well it rolled. I bet it was going a good twenty miles per hour by the time it hit the truck.
 
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