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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: JUNK-MAN on July 27, 2015, 09:29:45 AM

Title: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: JUNK-MAN on July 27, 2015, 09:29:45 AM: Just curios as to what brand you guys have in the line of tool boxes.
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: Bill Houghton on July 27, 2015, 10:05:07 AM: Mainly Craftsman in the rollaways and top chests, because they're easy to find. One Rem-Line rollaway from Dad's gas station (then in his garage from 1966 on, when the station closed), and one Kennedy rollaway, $30 at a yard sale with some tools in it.

Portable boxes: a mix, some Craftsman, some Kennedy, some oddballs.
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: Twilight Fenrir on July 27, 2015, 10:58:46 AM: Hmm, vote function isn't working for me... Might be my phone...

I have an old Kennedy I got from my grandfather's basement, as well as one he built out of 1/8th inch steel plating... Sucker is HEAVY
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: Nolatoolguy on July 27, 2015, 11:21:16 AM: Quote from: Twilight Fenrir on July 27, 2015, 10:58:46 AM
Hmm, vote function isn't working for me... Might be my phone...

I have an old Kennedy I got from my grandfather's basement, as well as one he built out of 1/8th inch steel plating... Sucker is HEAVY

It's not working for me, ime using iPad mini.
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: Nolatoolguy on July 27, 2015, 11:26:18 AM: In Chicago I had a Matco cart an snappy box along with some old craftsmans an a few Kennedy machinist chests, an lastly a proto.

When I moved I didn't bring any boxes. I have some money set aside from when I sold the boxes I am gonna use to buy another. Ime just waiting for the right used one to come up for sale.
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: amecks on July 27, 2015, 12:13:34 PM: Vote thing turns up error.

Snap On - older bottom and top units - bought used from Mr. Snappy many years ago
Craftsman - bottom and middle - bought two years ago on sale
New Britain - on top of the Craftys - yard sale $20
Kennedy - small one for measuring tools - inherited from retiring machinist friend

At work -
Proto - bottom cabinet -bought used from Mr. Snappy - I keep a small C-man carry tool box on top

Al
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: lauver on July 27, 2015, 12:50:12 PM: Vote thing is a FAIL. It no worky...

Here's what I got:

Two Craftsman roll cabs and two different Craftsman top chests (18" depth & 12" depth).

One Williams tool chest, and one Craftsman/Kennedy machinist chest.

One Utica/Bonney roll cab & full depth top chest.

One Rem-Line full depth top chest.

An unknown brand (but made in USA) cantilever carry box.

An Armstrong 3/4 drive set carry box.

A snap-on 3/8 drive set carry box.

A P&C 3/8 drive set carry box.

A bunch of 1/4 drive boxes (Indestro, Duro, Stevens Walden, Wards Master, P&C, Craftsman).

All this stuff is vintage and most are restored or in the process of restoration.
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: Papaw on July 27, 2015, 03:24:41 PM: I have an old Snappy bottom box with a Craftsman on top. Two Kennedys in the office, and several off-brand carry boxes here and there. I keep a Craftsman 4 drawer in the bed of the truck.
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: humber2 on July 27, 2015, 03:29:48 PM: Surely Waterloo should be on the vote list when it gets fixed?
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: JUNK-MAN on July 27, 2015, 03:55:22 PM: Sorry guys I don't know why the voting wont work when I click to edit it it says it has an error.
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: stanley62 on July 27, 2015, 04:15:41 PM: Craftsman roll away and top box with a Kennedy middle box. (3) kennedys Mechanics boxes and (1) more Craftsman on the shelf. I have a couple Plomb, a Mossberg, a Hinsdale and Williams ratchet/socket boxes too!

Jim
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: Papaw on July 27, 2015, 04:18:20 PM: Sorry the poll isn't working. It is an error that I don't know how to fix.
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: RedVise on July 27, 2015, 08:08:41 PM: Cornwell roller(dads) with a 80's Cman Homeowners top box I purchased.
And a file cabinet with an Aztec middle box on it, waiting for an in progress refurb Cornwell top box.
Gerstner for the smalls I collect. I am refurbing another wood chest manufacture unknown.

That's not counting the wood and metal totes, trays and boxes that are hanging around, I mean, waiting to be sold.

Brian
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: leg17 on July 27, 2015, 08:21:27 PM: 10 Kennedy
3 SK
2 Hout
Couple odds and ends
4 Antique wooden machinist type
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: Nolatoolguy on July 27, 2015, 10:00:43 PM: Quote from: Papaw on July 27, 2015, 04:18:20 PM
Sorry the poll isn't working. It is an error that I don't know how to fix.

Don't worry papaw, we still have the best forum on the net :)
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: gibsontool on July 27, 2015, 10:21:56 PM: My main box is Waterloo, top,bottom, and 2 side hangers One older cman upper which is going to one of my sons next week. ! home made bottom roll around and several various smaller boxes SK, Kennedy Snap on and some unmarked ones. Not overly impressed with the Waterloo. I've moved it several times and the drawers are not taking the moves very well.
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: bunger on July 28, 2015, 08:50:19 AM: In the garage,
Main box - Husky 42" roller with top box.
Secondary boxes:
Craftsman 7 drawer roller
MBC 5 drawer roller
Harbor Freight 26"- 4 drawer tool cart with a Craftsman middle box installed on the lower shelf.

In the basement,
(3) craftsman 26" rollers, with middle and top boxes.

Approx (12) carry boxes, Craftsman, Hout, Kennedy, Park
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: EVILDR235 on July 28, 2015, 12:33:25 PM: I have a Proto top box that my wife's mother gave me 34 years ago. 3 kennedy top boxes, 4 Craftsman top boxes, 2 Craftsman bottom boxes and a Kobalt top box. I also have about 20 small hand held boxes. Some are Craftsman, one S&K, one Cummings, and a bunch of unknowns.

EvilDr235
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: bill300d on July 28, 2015, 04:40:41 PM: 54" S/O top and bottom
39" S/O top and bottom
26" S/O top and bottom w/ Hout mid
26" Craftsman top and bottom
Remline top
Kennedy mid
Kennedy machinist
2 Kennedy hand
2 craftsman hand
Dayton hand
Foster hand
2 Union hand
New Britain hand
Simonsen hand
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: john k on July 29, 2015, 01:27:10 PM: At work, Snapon top and bottom, 1980s, bought them used when wanting ball bearing drawers. Drawers are still too shallow. At home, a 1950s Craftsman top and bottom, 3 drawers each, from a relatives auction. Plus a Craftsman 26 inch bottom, and a Blackhawk top chest 10 drawer, probably late 60s, as I bought it used in 76. Small hand carry boxes, Craftsman, S&K, Park, and a dozen others.
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: kafranco on July 30, 2015, 03:12:30 PM: I have a Montezuma roller and a carry, got them for Christmas a while back, serves me just fine.
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: jimwrench on July 30, 2015, 07:07:11 PM: Craftsman,S & K,Stack-on,All-Trade,Owatonna Tool Co,John Deere,Fordson,Plomb,Collins and Hapwood
Title: Re: What Brand Are Your Toolboxes?
Post by: turnnut on July 30, 2015, 08:28:10 PM: I did not check them all, but have mostly Craftsmans, a Waterloo, an oddball plus my Kennedy from when
I worked at PW & A

yesterday I was talking to a guy and we were talking about tools, I remembered this subject and told him
about it, then asked him what brand of tool box he uses, his answer was very quick, "OP" yes, he was serious,

OP = other peoples.