I just bought a 52" with 16 drawers. It was marked from $498 to $448. Then I paid with my Home depot card and got another 5% off!! So I think for $426 it was a great deal. They just set it up also so it didn't take any time out of my schedule to put it together. I also bought a Costco tool box and must say it ***** big time!!! Its not made for mechanics tools, more like welding or bodywork . I unloaded an overstuffed 22 drawer Craftsman box that was like 26" wide and I couldn't get half the tools in it. Im a pack rat with tools so I stuff them. When I got the Home depot box, I took all the tools out of the Costco box and loaded them in the Home depot box. I also bought the tool box organizers from HF. Its amazing how much stuff the 52" box holds compared to the Costco equivalent. That being said, the Costco box is now loaded up with body tools, dent pullers etc!! Its pretty much filled with solid steel!!! Very heavy stuff. I gave my co-worker my old Kennedy tool box that I outgrew 30 years ago. I don't really think the HD52" I have will ever wear out and if it does, I will weld the piss out of it and stiffen it up. It feels pretty damned good at this point and the posts of peoples tools in their drawers have nothing on me!! I load them up!! I have 14 cars and do engine, electrical, body, paint and own my own construction company that lets me afford to actually have 14 cars all indoors! And with these cars and all the cars I have restored and owned and fixed I give all my tools and boxes a workout. Time will tell how well the HD box will hold up but if people cant fix a box with a few stiffeners and a little ingenuity, then you might want to spend $7,000 on a box and another $20,000 on the tools to load in it and just look at it.
It would sure take a lot of tool boxes to ruin to equal one SO box. It cracks me up how some people say that something wont hold up and will spend way more on something that will still break. My tools of choice on commercial construction sites are Ryobi!! LOL!! I have been beating the **** out of all these tools since Ryobi 18 volts first came out and I have only had one drill break in 20 years! I use them every day professionally. They make me very good money every year. So the people that say these wont last in a professional environment just might be surprised. Anyway. I'd rather spend my cash on cool old cars and parts and old signs, collectables, guitars, than spend it on some overpriced boxes and tools. I'll be the first to post if I have any type of failure and then post pictures of how I re-engineered whatever the failure is to prevent any other failures of the box. I'm highly doubting anything will fail. I have never been a brand name guy. Ever! Even my cars are all different makes and styles. All American made except the Supercharged XJR Jaguar. We all have our faults LOL!!
