Mobile toolbox/workstation

[LoneGunman]

I'm looking for a mobile toolbox. I am an electrician, I am looking for basically a toolbox with wheels but one that I can get in and out of a van. I could bolt a box to the floor but that does me no good. I'm tired of making multiple trips to the truck lugging ****. I LOVE this one but I'm not impressed by the reviews or the manufacturer.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000V29B7K/?tag=atomicindus08-20

I also do a lot of motor control work in a few orange groves, so I need the wheels to be able to handle rolling in dirt or sand. I'm tired of loosing tools because of my storage situation.

 

[jteck75]

I used one of the boxes in the Amazon ad a few years back,while working on heavy equipment on the Katrina gulf coast. I was like you,I got tired of walking back and forth to my service rig. It held up fine,and that was dragging it through and over hurricane debris to the vehicle I was working on. It wasn't as big as I'd like for heavy equipment tools,but I'd go out and asses the job,and then go back to the truck and load the box down with what I thought I would need,and I had it WAAAAY overloaded,but it still held up good.

 

[Scout Driver]

I have had good luck with an estate auction Radio Flyer wagon. Not fancy, and I look like a homeless person who just stole a toolbox whenever I use it, but it works for me. Easy to put my junkyard/road-box into and go wherever I need. May modify it with some bigger tires and some sort of small racks to haul larger parts out of the junkyards.

Scott

 

[LoneGunman]

If it held up to use in your application it should be fine for mine. I can usually park close to where I'm working when I'm in the groves, just not having a place to set stuff down is a real pain in the ****. At least with the cart I could at least throw it back in the cart. I wear a tool pouch but being out in the groves I use a lot of wrenches, sockets, ETC. They don't go in a tool pouch so they end up on top of a panel, in my pockets or on the ground.

 

[truckdriver]

You could always find a regular 26-30" box that you like and bolt it to a hand truck/dolly. It would be real easy to move over all kinds of terrain if the dolly had the air up wheels and not the hard ones.

 

[scbird94]

You could always find a regular 26-30" box that you like and bolt it to a hand truck/dolly. It would be real easy to move over all kinds of terrain if the dolly had the air up wheels and not the hard ones.

Could even give yourself a small stainless bench on the top of the box with a vise... i like this idea

 

[rsanter]

pelican makes a nice portable toolbox on wheels

bob

 

[TheGrooveking]

I started a related thread in the general forum in regards to lifts/systems for lifting a roller cabinet from a pickup or van but it became all twisted with people throwing "why don't you just drive up to where you are working" comments from those who drive service trucks working on dozers. I too am looking at this since a few friends of mine do machine repair work and always have to deal with forklift drivers trying to load and unload their roller cabinets. A few months ago one such forklift driver dropped my friends KRL about 4 feet down on one end, it wasn't pretty. Of course the company who the driver worked for basically said **** happens and isn't willing to cover the damage.

TheGrooveking

 

[jteck75]

Having a service truck isn't always as cut and dried as some people would like to belive. I had to overcome my Katrina tool dellima with a portable tool chest,and I had a F-550 4x4 service truck. Being a road technician of any kind presents so many more challenges than you will face being a full time shop tech. Flexibility and adaptability are the main assets to have when being a road tech,and although I'm not a road tech anymore,the best ones I know are ready and able to adapt to any situation when they pull up to a job.

 

[DARKSCOPE001]

a buddy of mine has that toolbox and we are going to school for aviation mechanics. personaly I dont like it but everyone else thinks its a nifly little box. but the only reason i dont like it i that the way he has it organized is very poor. but if you have few big tools or lots of little tools and actualy put them away in rollups or something similar instead of just throwing them into the bottom of the box its a pretty sweet rig. so far its holding up nice and it deploys really fast. im still pushing my box acrost the hangar by the time he already has a screwdriver out and is taking off pannels but then again I have a nice little 26x26 remline with top chest that probably weighs in just under 1 ton if i had to guess and we have dranage grates in our hangar so that slows me down a bit but still nice box and good for little jobs or tools that are used the most

BEST LUCK
Sean Scott