Silly big toolboxes.

[skeletonizer]

That's exactly how my wife and my dog look at me most of the time.

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

That's exactly how my wife and my dog look at me most of the time.

 

[PCO6]

I looked through the pics of the contents, there's a lot of wasted space in there. He could fit all that stuff in one rollcab with a top box an single side locker. Look at spidergearsman's toolbox, i bet he has more stuff in his box and it's half the size of that one.

It's a good thing that box has wheels on it. How else could you clean the window that it's blocking?

 

[crewchief888]

good lord its MR. BIG i didnt know anyone actually owned one i though it was just a myth. I dont know what profession that guy is in but i think i wanna get started in it too!

i used to work with a guy that had a SO Mr Big with 2 full size lockers, and a SO double bank. he moved his in a 19' enclosed trailer when he got layed off.
he had a LOT of tools, probably more than he would or could ever use.
if he needed one socket or wrench, he'd buy the entire set. takes up lots of space and lots of $$$

The only thing that really blows about having a wall of tool chests is if you switch jobs and have to move it.

thats why i'm not a fan of workstations, too hard to move.
largest boxes i have are a KR550/555 as my work boxes. most of my tools are in a F-550 now. largest house boxes are a SO/harley 90th anv set with a matching 3 drawer middle box. it's a shade over 6' tall, i keep clipboard and paperwork/receipts in the top.
i had to move tools from 4 smaller sets of boxes into 2 sets that i have room for in my garage, and have tools piled on top of tools. once i get everything moved and reorganized from my 35x45 shop to my 19x22 garage maybe it wont b so bad..

 

[wendell]

At 5' 10" the top drawer is at eye level. I can confortably see what on top of the box but that's it. Any taller and I'd be looking for a step ladder. For me, in my shop, it's perfect. Maximum usable storage in the minimum floor space.

 

[Shadowdog500]

The only thing that really blows about having a wall of tool chests is if you switch jobs and have to move it.

Just call in a flatbed car hauler, and they will move it with no effort. I've seen it done many times. I'm actually thinking about moving up to one of these monster boxes because it would be harder to steal. Someone couldn't just throw it into the back of thier pickup truck.

This makes me think of when the head mechanic of a shop where I worked got into a pi$$ing contest with the new shop manager who happened to be an A-hole. Right in front of everyone, the head mechanic told the shop managers boss of he didn't get rid of the shop manager he was leaving. When the boss asked if he was serious, he quipped "That's why my box has wheels on it". Our ex-shop manager started locksmith school the following week.

Chris

 

[Art From De Leon]

I don't really have much choice. I don't have the floor space for a big enough rollcab. My top box is pretty high; I can see into the top drawer, but just barely, and I'm 6'2". I can only open the top lid a few inches, or it hits the hanging ceiling light (new garage in the works will have 12' ceilings though.) But.....the real problem is potential injury. Every time I open one of the top drawers I have to remind myself not to leave it open for even a minute. The sharp corners at head level could cause some serious pain if I walked into it by mistake.

These are the same boxes I have, without the side cabinet, and I only keep a few things under the lid, those which I can identify by feel, or see when I stand on tip toe, and I am 5'11". I used to have a set of Snap on KR boxes, with a middle set of drawers, that when I pulled out the top drawer, I could walk under it, without touching my head.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

These are the same boxes I have, without the side cabinet, and I only keep a few things under the lid, those which I can identify by feel, or see when I stand on tip toe, and I am 5'11". I used to have a set of Snap on KR boxes, with a middle set of drawers, that when I pulled out the top drawer, I could walk under it, without touching my head.

I'm also 5'11", i fear if i ever buy the KRL i want i'll have to take the wheel off and set it on the ground in order to use the top compartment. I like using to top, it's great for the big stuff, like 36" breaker bar, 36" pipe wrench, crowbar, prybars, tyre levers etc.

 

[RbrtAWhyt]

Short guys learn to keep a milk crate around for height emergencies...

 

[crewchief888]

Every time I open one of the top drawers I have to remind myself not to leave it open for even a minute. The sharp corners at head level could cause some serious pain if I walked into it by mistake.



ive got a nice scar above my left eye from he same thing. about a week after i bought my boxes, i walked into the corner of an open drawer

i figured it out real quick to close the drawers before i walked away.

i saw a guys double bank snapon cab fall onto it's face one day in the shop, he had a bad habit of leaving drawers open all the time

 

[mkdive]

i saw a guys double bank snapon cab fall onto it's face one day in the shop, he had a bad habit of leaving drawers open all the time

Ouch..makes me cringe just thinking about it.

 

[caper]

Short guys learn to keep a milk crate around for height emergencies...

Yeah I'm 6' tall and the guy I trained as a mechanic with was 5 ft nothing.He always used to leave the hoist too low for me to fit under the cars so one day I brought him a milk crate and said it's easier for you to stand on this than for me to kneel down all day.

 

[crewchief888]

Ouch..makes me cringe just thinking about it.

yea it was a mess, tools were everywhere, bent drawer slides and dinged up drawers.

even after he got it all fixed up, he'd still do the same thing, you'd walk by and there would be 6 or 7 drawers open

 

[Moose-LandTran]

i saw a guys double bank snapon cab fall onto it's face one day in the shop, he had a bad habit of leaving drawers open all the time.

I almost did that to a friend's box once, was looking for something in a rush, didn't push the drawers closed and it came forwards towards me. I just shoved them closed as quick as i could or it would'a squished me.

 

[crewchief888]

I almost did that to a friend's box once, was looking for something in a rush, didn't push the drawers closed and it came forwards towards me. I just shoved them closed as quick as i could or it would'a squished me.

yea you'll only do that 1 time

once all that weight starts moving it's hard to stop it, my original set of boxes got added onto a few times, more than once one of the upper boxes would move around when i was rolling it.
when i bought my snapon boxes in 1987 they actually had holes and bolts to bolt em together
i had all my stuff bolted together in one way or another, hard to move 500+ lbs of top box that dont have any handles on it

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I bolted my boxes together, largely for security but also for stability.

 

[Shadowdog500]

Short guys learn to keep a milk crate around for height emergencies...

Take it easy with standing on plastic milk crates. If the webbing breaks, your foot will go through and you will have the webbing impaled into your ankle. You cant simply pull your foot out because the webbing makes like a one way ratchet mechanism against your leg, so you have to cut it off. If you must use a milk crate, I suggest putting a board to distribute the load across the webbing.

Chris

 

[Vinko]

Not mine, from another forum.....

I'd love to have something like that. I could finally keep all my tools in one place.

Anyone know what the the end cabinet on the far left is? A KRL something...

 

[Vinko]

you could, just like dad had all the tools for the farm in a 26" sears combo. The problem is, every friggin drawer was filled to the top, and you had to dig out each drawer to find what you wanted each time.

+1 . . .