tool boxes

My toolbox is the one thing that goes everywhere the truck does I,m afraid....and I used to cop heaps from SWMBO..until one day it was needed...and came to the rescue big time.
Now this toolbox is one heavy muther (about 20 kilos...give or take a few)...but it has everything in it that I might need...and indeed have needed over the years.
Was given to me about the mid 80s by my ex...(About the only good thing she did give me in retrospect...apart from 2 sons..but I digress)..and carries all my normal tools except a multimeter and tension wrench (wrapped separately and stuffed under back seat)...including the aforementioned Minimax spanners from an earlier post.
This box has helped all n sundry out over the years...but is a bloody heavy box to git in and out of truck. But in reality I dont mind a bit coz in that old box is sumthin ...somewhere that I need to fix sunfink!
Oh..it is a ROTA brand one ...with4 cantilever drawers...a big bottom bin and 2 foldover lids that are lockable. The tray pivots have been replaced numerous times...it has riddon on footplates of tractors and headers...done squillions of k,s in toolboxes of assorted semis..and still backs up as my workshop and travelling kit.
Doesnt matter what sort of tools and container yu have...just make sure that you know what to do with them...and look after them.


Cheers Keith

Yep, I use tool bags too. Easy to stash wherever there is a bit of space and don't damage other gear.

Thats good to hear as I was looking on line at that exact tool box. The 5 trays would help with keeping everything organised.

NOT the 5 tray one (well, the one I bought anyway). I simply got the single cantilever tray one and everything gets stashed underneath the tray.

I went through the soft tool bag thing and went back to an old steel box like yours. It fits nicely in a drawer in the back and being hard and rectangular it is easy to stash other stuff around and on top of it.

No trays or cantilever things. Just a rectangular steel box, about the same size as road warriors, with a lid. I got it about 30 years ago.

I also have a very small roll of minor tools that lives in the center console. It carries a knife, a few small cutters and plyers, some tape and a small shifter , some tweezers and a multimeter.

Phil

X 2.... I brought mine from "Super Cheap" Fit all that I'll ever use.

Laurie.

I use a bag too, for all the reasons you listed! Except mine didn't come from Supercheap or Bunnings, LOL. ;)

Stuff sacks (for camping gear) help keep things organized. I keep all my wrenches in one, and all my screwdrivers in another.

To neatly carry a large array of sockets, I use some socket holders.

Though you don't need this in Oz, I also have a "zip lock" plastic bag in there with some common SAE-size wrenches and sockets. These are for use on American-made vehciles or any other things that don't use metric hardware.