Now, hol' on there just a minute pardner, you're telling me that I should pay $20,000 for a big, difficult to move, non-portable metal box for my tools, when Wal-Mart has perfectly good Sterilite bins for $2.99 a piece and a $4 roll of label tape, which I can use to build a modular tool wall?
Now huwhy in tarnation would I do a thing like the former, when I can do a thing like the latter for $50?
And if I wanna be 'real fancy, then I can buy a $40 metal rack to put 'em boxes on.
Just downright peculiar.
Now, I tell you,
>bin for screwdrivers
>bin for my socket sets, all on little socket rails
>bin for clamps
>bin for pliers
>bin for drill
>bin for angle grinder + accessories
>bin for welder
>bin for die grinder
>bin for chisels / wood tools
Well, I've just managed to organize me tools for, what, under 10 bins worth of plastic?
I can hang up my axe, saws, and what other irregulars one may have in their shop that simply wouldn't fit in a normal box 'o tools, and I have an organized shop for less money than it costs to fuel up a simple 5 gallon gas canister.
Nice blog morono.
>Well, I've just managed to organize me tools for, what, under 10 bins worth of plastic?
Whenever you look at your stacked plastic bins, you can smile and think to yourself, "what a cheap bastard I am."
If that's good for your self-esteem, good on you.
As if you made the expensive shelves yourself.
Now, if you meticulously hand-made, or had someone custom-build a special super toolbox for 50,000 dollars, whatever, all the more power to you.
No, you just went to a store and CONSOOMED more than I did.
All so you can look at your stamped metal box painted red with a brand name decal, smile, and think to yourself - "wow, I sure have more money than sense."
>tldr; my self esteem doesn't stem from how fancy the metal boxes in my garage are
It's like Reddit Moment became a real person.
If a $40 metal rack can hold all your tools then the most valuable item in your workshop is the list of local handymen
Not sure what that list of handymen have to do with tools, they're for fricking my wife
My lathe and mill are on the floor.
Oh wait, I bet you're those morons that buy a $200 socket wrench and use it once a year.
>rebuilt my entire car, built a shed, an extension for the house, and restored 4 motorcycles with Walmart and Harbor Freight tools, maybye $1000 spent on tools total
>all stored in $10 bins, maybe 50 unique tools
>chainsaw on metal rack
Oh wait, I can't use an IMPACT socket set with a RATCHET WRENCH, nooo, I must buy another $400 socket set to use with my NON ELECTRIC tools!!!
Oh, no, my $3000 OBD scan tool will fall from my metal shelves and shatter into a trillion pieces, thank the heavens snap on exists!!!
Use those seething poverty pointers to wipe those eyes.
I get it. You only have the budget for a few tools for the weekend project that takes years. Once you got more done you would understand the need. Just work harder.
Please stop you dont know who you are messing with, big shelf has eyes everywhere
I paid 80$ CAD for my toolbox, upper and lower, used because it was being run as a diesel techs box at a garbage yard. Cleaned it, ran that. I don't ever see myself buying a toolbox again tbh - I just find and use wooden furniture people leave out because "it got scratched". Can you say you have a darkwood tool armoire? I can, it's where I keep my jack and other vehicle lifting items.
>inb4 white trash
I'm Caucasian Recycling to you, boy.
Cheers to that, anon.
I keep my 4 jack stands and jack in car, have broken down on road 100 times before.
Had to replace wheel bearing on side of highway once.
i paid about 100$ for my little rollcab and i use washed out plastic chinese food containers in the top drawer to separate out hooks, punches, precision screwdrivers, bits, 2-4mm hex end drills etc.
but im not a moronic american so i dont need 3 sets of every tool each in a different size system, just metric is fine.
I something close to what op did. I took a bunch of wood boxes for short blocks and stacked them. pic somewhat related but the boxes are all stacked sideways making them into a proper shelf.