Good Tool Bags / boxes?

[Handyandy23]

I'm in the process of organizing all of my tools and looking for suggestions on tool bags or other organizers people find useful.

All of my auto tools are neatly organized in my box in my garage. Also when it comes to larger power tools I'm fine with figuring out how to organize those.

The ones I'm struggling with are the smaller "specialty" tools. Over the course of home renos I've collected a decent amount of plumbing tools, electrical tools, etc. At one time I had one 24" hand-carry tool box / tray that I put all of this type of stuff in, but now that's not nearly big enough.

I see in stores they have big work bags labelled as "electricians bag" or "plumbers bag", etc. But not sure how actually useful they are. I would prefer something like this to keep just tools of that type in, along with screwdrivers or whatever else fits. That way if I'm doing a plumbing fix I can grab the plumbing bag and it has all my stuff and go, rather than digging in a big box and forgetting half the things I need.

I wouldn't be opposed to separate boxes, but I just found in the past those little plastic boxes aren't organized at all, and all the tools just end up in a pile in the bottom.

Anyone have any good recommendations for tool bags toeet these needs? Or will any of them do mostly what I want and I just have to keep them organized?

 

[BTL-A4]

My suggestions:

Tool rolls. Cheap and compact. Here's thread that discusses them:
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=417534
I have a Craftsman one for wrenches. I like that they are all laid out in order.

I have a few canvas tool bags from Harbor Freight. They were inexpensive and not too fancy. I keep a set of tools in both my cars in them.

Home Depot has a whole line of canvas tool bags that might suit your purpose. I thought of getting those instead of the HF ones, but they were too fancy and didn't collapse down.

Maybe have tools in rolls that you keep in bags or a tool box?

 

[doublearon98]

I just use the bags from harbor freight. Cheap and work good enough.

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[catron44]

I've had success with open top husky bags from HD and other similar designs. I have my main carpentry tools in a veto pro pack XXL-F which is the greatest thing I've found for this purpose. I have a husky bag for electrical, another for plumbing and another for drywall. I keep some additional empty bags to throw in the power tools required for a task then grab the veto and the job specific bag and go.

 

[AS556]

I use a Carrhart at work 50+ hours a week. It's holding up well.

 

[Handyandy23]

I've had success with open top husky bags from HD and other similar designs. I have my main carpentry tools in a veto pro pack XXL-F which is the greatest thing I've found for this purpose. I have a husky bag for electrical, another for plumbing and another for drywall. I keep some additional empty bags to throw in the power tools required for a task then grab the veto and the job specific bag and go.

Thanks, that's pretty much exactly what I want to do as well. Only thing that throws me off is every time I'm in HD and looking at those Husky bags I'm overwhelmed by the number of choices. Seems like 20 different variations on them in slightly different sizes and configurations.

I guess I need to lay out my tools and get a good inventory of what I need to store to help decide.

 

[Handyandy23]

I use a Carrhart at work 50+ hours a week. It's holding up well.

That's a very nice bag! I was about to say it's probably a little higher quality than I need around the house, but the price isn't even that outrageous compared to the store brand ones. Definitely one to consider.

 

[Alfisti]

There's a good range of canvas tool bags on the Aircraft Spruce site, a lot of aircraft owners seem to use canvas bags to keep the tools they keep on the aircraft. might be worth a look?