So confused!!! Need Help!!!

[BiltFordTuff]

Hi, when I started with my tools, I just had a corner in my dad's garage. One 3-drawer tool chest with a storage box on the bottom, 2-drawer top box, workbench with a HF wrench set on the pegboard, small vise, and the rest of my tools were in a small carry toolbox. But recently my brother.... moved on.... and I inherited all of his tools. But the thing is, my brother was kinda a pack rat and hardly passed up an offer. He had two toolchests: one is a 7-drawer Task Force, the other a 9-drawer Rem box. They were almost fully loaded and my dad had bought me that 5-drawer tool cart from HF. Well I got me a small tool shed, now i will have 4 toolchests plus a workbench, a grinder on a stand, etc. I don't know if I should just tell my dad that I don't have enough room for that tool cart or I could sell one of the other three toolchests. Can somebody please give me an opinion.

 

[Red Green]

I would tell your dad you currently don't have room for everything and ask him if he wants one of the boxes. Maybe your father would like to have one of your brothers boxes.

 

[bmwpower]

Tool carts are tough - they come in real handy when needed, but after the job you gotta find a place to store them. Right now mine has a bunch of **** on it, so if I ever need to use it, I have to clear it off, etc. Do you forsee yourself using the cart? How packed are the boxes now? Packed boxes are as bad as unused carts - not very helpful.

 

[BiltFordTuff]

I would tell your dad you currently don't have room for everything and ask him if he wants one of the boxes. Maybe your father would like to have one of your brothers boxes.

weell he is technically not allowed to have one of my brothers boxes, due to the estate. So I might just tell him he can use the cart or take it back and get his money back. I personally dont see myself using it very much, besides, my 3-drawer can roll quite easily.

 

[dansmurf]

Some pics of what you have may help. Since your boxes are smaller if they roll smoothly you may put them against the wall sideways next to each other. Set up each box with tools for different task and then just roll out the box you need. Or if you can fit some of the boxes under the work bench. I would try to keep all the boxes if possible. As time goes on you most likely will move up to a bigger shop and will be happy you did keep them all.

 

[BiltFordTuff]

Some pics of what you have may help. Since your boxes are smaller if they roll smoothly you may put them against the wall sideways next to each other. Set up each box with tools for different task and then just roll out the box you need. Or if you can fit some of the boxes under the work bench. I would try to keep all the boxes if possible. As time goes on you most likely will move up to a bigger shop and will be happy you did keep them all.

You can go to my profile and I have a photo album of my tools in my toolchests, if that will help.

 

[csp]

weell he is technically not allowed to have one of my brothers boxes, due to the estate.

So does the estate say that you can't give him one of the boxes after the estate is settled? It's your box now, not your brother's. Do what you want with it.

 

[BiltFordTuff]

disregard...

 

[TLCDino]

Sounds like it could be sort an emotional thing. Especially on Christmas with what sounds like a recent death. Tough situation.

I would not generally offer advice because it is impossible to really know your situation, but, since you asked.... Why just leave things lie as they are a while and then quietly sort it out? Seems like a very nice gesture to give you the gift of the cart, and tools are for collecting for the long haul. Could come in handy some day. And, things like that last a life time. Could be a great memory of your father and your brother some day..

 

[BiltFordTuff]

I decided to keep it as my father spent good money on it and I dont like to say no to him. I just put it in the front of my shed close to the door if i ever needed to use it as a cart. I am kind of just using it as a toolchest right now having my wrenches and sockets in it. My 3-drawer has all my power tools in it. My brothers task force has allen wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, scrapers and blades and some other random things. My brothers Rem box has pliers, punches and chisels, files, saws, and clamps. But soon more spacetakers are coming.

 

[tcianci]

I have had the sad opportunity to inherit tools as well from my dad, my brother and an uncle (the uncle just retired to Texas, not dead). I know this will fly in the face of lots of the die hard tool collectors here but I am constantly going through stuff, making sure I have the best of it for daily use, set up a kit for the truck and more stuff at my moms house to use there. Some of it just gets sold, or given away. None of this stuff was really priceless or unusual but most of it was possibly better quality than you would normally see nowadays. I am better at making clutter more than anything else and with a background in auto mechanics, fabrication, machine tool metalworking and construction, I am literally up to my ears in tools and equipment. Do yourself a favor and think things through with an eye toward what you will use all the time, what has meaning to you and what would make some other guy very happy if you gave it to him.