Maybe because they have a pile of money and might as well have fun with it. At least they aren't in their mom's basement posting brain-dead questions on a PrepHole board.
I see some trophies on that bench so he must be doing something right.
I bet his snap-on guy gave him the trophies for spending the most money.
https://i.imgur.com/JaIeOcA.jpg
I wild millennial has appeared he also has a super expensive toolbox... huh.
also the guy in the pic is not a boomer. looks like late gen-x
Oh look it's some youtube homosexual that probably got a heck of a deal from snap-on to have that eye-searing cabinet in every video. He sure is representative of everyone.
^This and those asserting otherwise are larper scum.
[...]
Boomers are mostly retired and using that term for anyone born after 1965 highlights the user as a numbass digger.
That said there are many uses for those in serious shops but the top boxes are pointless. Old boy should have called the Lista rep then properly designed useful workspace. Making single tall setups like that is counterproductive and inefficient, just an exercise in buying cabinets. All tool drawers should be easy to look down into for access and end-of-shift inventory. Single wall-style shit is far more wisely divided into multiple wheeled boxes with stainless tops which gains work surface.
t. civilian and USAF toolroom outfitter.
If he wasn't a manlet he could see in most of those drawers. Height of the end cabinets is 6'2" with the casters.
Frick that cat. That little shit wandered into my garage one morning like 3 years ago, he was so small that he could barely even walk straight, and now I’m stuck with the thing.
What do you mean my tools have the exact same functionality taken out of a cardboard box compared to stowed in a 5k tookbox? Someone get my Strap On rep on the line, hes got some splainin to do.
Thats what somebody who doesn't do taxes say. It just reduces your taxable income. You still pay for it. You also need to have high enough deductions to make it worth itemizing. So makes since for a shop, unlikely for an individual mechanic. Itemizing doesn't make since until you are over 12k in itemized deduction.
if you think your average oil changer is buying these you are dumb as hell. the people dropping money on these boxes have the money coming in. do any specialized work and its easy to get a high enough income to make itemizing everything you buy for your job worth it. I bet you prepay your taxes like some kind of idiot
>$18/hr job
Anybody who ever goes to school for an auto tech job is moronic. For the same schooling, you can start at $30+ in literally any other technical trade and probably don’t need as many specialized tools as a car mechanic who services all different car makes and models.
I did a program in high school that made me an auto mechanic, day 1 after graduation I was a flat rate technician at a dealership with two bays. $10/hr flag
Then later got into machining starting pay was like $18
$30hr+ is like master’s degree level pay.
Most trades go their entire careers and never touch that
4 months ago
Bepis
You might be in the sticks then. Either way any other trade is like auto mechanic pay +60%
Beginner union guys around here are making $30 or damn near it with no experience, and mid 30s with 5 years, and this aint even California or NYC. Diesel and machinery mechanics will all be $25+, $30+ with experience.
4 months ago
Sieg
I’m in California, remember the trades here are very very low paying because the open border.
$30/hr certified union electricians all went away when hector said he used to be an electrician in Mexico and $5 an hour under the table was a good wage
4 months ago
Anonymous
The lineman union is on the ropes because so many complete contract shops showed up in the last 20 years. Why have a line reward when Hector did it in the old country and shows up with a whole crew
shows you know very little, it's not a write off to their personal taxes. it's a right off to their schedule c which reduces their income on their 1040 and then they still get the standard deduction moron.
I'm not advocating snap on boxes, PrepHole would be some wood drawers, but if you claim it as a business expense let's not pretend it wouldn't be cool af to have
Except I said specifically it makes sense for a shop. It's unlikely they'd treat it as a direct "write off" as they're not really an expense. The cost is high enough, the usable life long enough that they'd be classified as assets and depreciated. Especially in a new shop as they'd have plenty of upfront expenses the first few years they wouldn't need this as a "write off".
if you make lets say 100k a year selling car shit
you spend 80k on building buissness more
buying equipment shit improvments,
you only pay taxes on 20k
>work >use money to buy tools to make your boss money and have to take them home and if you forgot bossman will fire you
This is cuckoldry. >tools are provided, use money to buy tools for home shop
This is based
>have to take them home and if you forgot bossman will fire you
this is bullshit.
I worked as an aircraft mechanic we left our tools there at the hanger for the entire time I worked there.
only construction workers take their tools home. all other shops allow tools to be left on the premises.
^This and those asserting otherwise are larper scum.
https://i.imgur.com/v21v7Tn.jpg
>that will be $75000,plus 10%apr ,plus weekly polish,plus tip
Why do boomers do this?
Boomers are mostly retired and using that term for anyone born after 1965 highlights the user as a numbass digger.
That said there are many uses for those in serious shops but the top boxes are pointless. Old boy should have called the Lista rep then properly designed useful workspace. Making single tall setups like that is counterproductive and inefficient, just an exercise in buying cabinets. All tool drawers should be easy to look down into for access and end-of-shift inventory. Single wall-style shit is far more wisely divided into multiple wheeled boxes with stainless tops which gains work surface.
>divided into multiple wheeled boxes with stainless tops which gains work surface
So as a USAF toolroom outfitter would you have any pointers for outfitting of a 1 or 2 car garage as a workshop in addition to the above? Versatility is the most important part I guess.
- IT nerd that's done a bit of mech eng & toolmaking.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Put everything on wheels that isn't already to ensure you can conveniently clean and rearrange it. Versatility is indeed the most important part for PrepHole and that goes with convenience. Do have carts with tops you can use to take things apart then leave undisturbed. Do collect stainless and aluminum kitchen gear from cookie sheets to steam table pots and whatever else seems useful including at least one strainer.
Narrow carts are good. I collect "U-boat dollies" then pull the center axle bolt so I can push them sideways. The uprights will support shelving. Mine currently use boards there as I've been welding other stuff like hanging shelves for my shipping containers but will get my usual angle steel trays with plywood sheets as shelving. Those will be bolted to the uprights for easy future mods.
High hanging storage and shelving near the ceiling puts wasted space to work.
Get good work lighting and task lighting. I favor recheargeable LED headlamps for task lighting because they illuminate where I look.
I don't permanently plumb shop air. I use (rubber, the good shit) air hose and brass fittings instead. My compressors are on castered skids and fed by SOOW extension cords but normie 5HP comps can use ordinary heavy duty 240V cords.
This has worked nicely over the forty+ years I evolved the strategy which is based on deploying. That taught me building shit you cannot change easily is an asspain.
Auctions and Fecesbook Marketplace are good places to score carts, boxes, stainless steel (including sinks and tables) etc.
>Single wall-style shit is far more wisely divided into multiple wheeled boxes with stainless tops which gains work surface.
Next time I overhaul my shop, I'm putting the top boxes somewhere else, or maybe on casters and tucking them under a bench. Bench space is far more useful than drawers that get opened once every 9 weeks.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Easy rugged fix is buy a stick of angle of your choice (heavier is always good) then weld it as an upward-facing tray, and if on the long side with drawers the angle blocks the bottom drawer face that angle downwards.
Weld casters of your choice to that or weld a tube at each corner for round-shank scaffolding casters. If you double the number of tubes yo can use scaffold jacks to raise the box so you can pull the casters for other use. If you use flat mount casters bolt them on with lock nuts so you can remove then in case of unlikely need. Tray dollies are what keep USAF boxes from being destroyed by years of towing around the flightline because a bump won't bend the box. They're a standard item since time out of mind and were ancient during the 1980s when I first saw them.
Carts fabbed locally from standard shapes are common and go cheap at business auctions. They're the easiest to modify into new configs. I cut them apart with zip discs (6" preferred and every mechanic should have at least one 6" angle grinder) and do stuff like make rolling shelves. I've a dental appt today but I'll get some pics. They're nothing special but work absurdly well.
Nah man
I did a program in high school that made me an auto mechanic, day 1 after graduation I was a flat rate technician at a dealership with two bays. $10/hr flag
Then later got into machining starting pay was like $18
$30hr+ is like master’s degree level pay.
Most trades go their entire careers and never touch that
Machining and stuff like controls and CNC repair technicians filter illiterates because math and actual thought. I worked in trades education after taking machiniing and welding courses for fun in retirement and used to do industrial maintenance (which was fun and also filters most idiots). None of that beat the Air Force though and fixing fighters while not for the sensitive is fun for a real mechanic/technician.
Even more fun was fully retiring at 47 (I enlisted late) while my HS peers were still working. Government jobs are always desirable because vested retirement and reliable cash flow unless your civilization actually collapses.
Boomers didn’t fight in world war 2 you fricktard, it’s literally their name on why and how they were conceived
^This, the last was born 1965.
>not building your own toolbox
Truly boomers are the laziest generation
The only boomers who built boxes were HVAC &sheet metal techs who did little ones as school projects.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Note suppliers will cut the steel to length for transport so measure wisely leaving a little clearance for fitting. Pic is typical dolly. Note center bolt. You can pull those even if dolly is loaded by jacking it slightly.
I keep a collection of car and truck pantograph jacks for lifting and positioning. I weld nuts to the ones not so equipped then run them up and down with my impact. I barely use my floor jack any more (and of course use wood cribbing when lifting vehicles or anything else heavy).
real boomers over here had to build their workbenches from pallet wood because they had not much after the war, and often kept them till they died.
or they were lucky and got to take a few lista cabinets home from work when the CI manager decided the reseda green is ugly and all toolboxes got changed to blue or gray in the 90s
4 months ago
Sieg
Boomers didn’t fight in world war 2 you fricktard, it’s literally their name on why and how they were conceived
>have to take them home and if you forgot bossman will fire you
Lmao. Yeah homosexual, the guy in the OP is loading that up in the back of his truck every night to go home. You sound like a legit moron. Even a” normal” sized box can weigh a thousand pounds when it’s full of tools.
If your boss’ assets get seized through a bankruptcy your tools are in the building and an asset of the company so yeah having your big ass $250k box that you can’t move unless you rent a truck is a huge liability
I tend to keep my tools in tool boxes that I can carry with me and put in my car and keep the bigger box at home
This may be difficult to understand since you are not a mechanic but personal preference is often worth paying for. Many Americans own land (one must be royalty for that in Eurogaygia) and have both shop and home on the same property (as do I and it's delightfully convenient) . Their equipment is thus multiple use since unlike Euros we are allowed to own more than one internal combustion engine and have things called "hobbies" which can include powerboat racing, drag racing, dirt track, road etc.
Having the cost of a cheap car in tools is painless like the cost of (soon to be outlawed in Europe) gasoline.
>personal preference is often worth paying for.
imagine bossman not paying for the tools you need
go to https://www.hoffmann-group.com/US/en/hus/ Coppy all wera wiha hazet Pb-swiss tools i want to outlook and sent it to the tool guy and he orders it for me.
he will order all hand tools i want for my personal toolbox, power tools we have in a common storage for everyone to use, all hilti and festool ofcourse.
This may be difficult to understand since you are not a mechanic but personal preference is often worth paying for. Many Americans own land (one must be royalty for that in Eurogaygia) and have both shop and home on the same property (as do I and it's delightfully convenient) . Their equipment is thus multiple use since unlike Euros we are allowed to own more than one internal combustion engine and have things called "hobbies" which can include powerboat racing, drag racing, dirt track, road etc.
Having the cost of a cheap car in tools is painless like the cost of (soon to be outlawed in Europe) gasoline.
People with setups like that either have way more money than they need, in which case it doesn't matter how much they pay for shit, or they use those tools to make money in which case expense is justified and compensated for. Everyday people don't have setups like this.
There’s a lot of auto shops where dudes are in a competition to see who can be in more debt to the Snap On dealer. It puts a lot of young guys in debt when they think they need a box that costs as much as a moderately equipped 2024 F-150. A lot of the dudes, even if they do it for a living, it’s not a justifiable expense.
Because steel isnt cheap (especially after the Trump Tariffs jacked prices up)
It costs a lot to deliver and store them, it costs a lot to paint them.
Look up the raw materials to build your own and itll quickly make sense.
I've been working on distilling my handheld 3-drawer toolbox into the most important things I use every time I work on a car, with a second 3-drawer handheld toolbox for extra diagnostic and more infrequently used tools. I'm doing this since I'm living in a small apartment without a garage right now and I frequently find myself going outside, to friends houses, or to shops and wishing I had my specific tools. This way I can grab a box or bag or two and know I have exactly what I want. It's working out pretty well and I'd recommend it - also the little toolboxes are basically free, lots of people getting rid of them for cheap. Tonight I cad modeled an organizing tray for a few of my harbor freight socket sets (Quinn short and tall 1/4" and Icon Torx) which is specifically designed to be printed on an Ender 3.
I bought a Hart 36 inch tool chest like this for 400$. It has soft close drawers and seems to hold decent weight. I don't suspect I'll ever need anything more.
i bought a 5 drawer harbor freight model as my first toolbox and the fricker is totally full a year later. it's been good but i think the time is coming for me to replace it, not because it's broken or anything, but because it's just too small for what i have now.
Keep the cart for your go-to auto stuff so you can roll it close to the car, get a bigger main box for everything else. That’s what I have going on.
[...] >personal preference is often worth paying for.
imagine bossman not paying for the tools you need
go to https://www.hoffmann-group.com/US/en/hus/ Coppy all wera wiha hazet Pb-swiss tools i want to outlook and sent it to the tool guy and he orders it for me.
he will order all hand tools i want for my personal toolbox, power tools we have in a common storage for everyone to use, all hilti and festool ofcourse.
>where is the boss’s impact? >Chaz broke it again
Oh no!
There’s pros and cons to each, but your work capabilities are still owned by your boss, and that tool cage gets factored into the budget.
>my personal toolbox
Your employer’s box that you use*
They worked their whole lives and have enough spare money to have fun with it. The thing is, I doubt the college fund of his children are paid up. Or that he have children at all.
are the scaffolding casters I use. They're also handy for moving machinery and one set can serve a variety of dollies or boxes if you make it easy to raise the box to remove and install them.
Maybe because they have a pile of money and might as well have fun with it. At least they aren't in their mom's basement posting brain-dead questions on a PrepHole board.
>I have fun by spending $50000 on sheet metal boxes with drawer slides
You're not particularly smart, are you.
go ahead and make your own tool chests i guess.
judging from the helmets and trophies it looks like this guy has other things to do with his time.
I bet his snap-on guy gave him the trophies for spending the most money.
Oh look it's some youtube homosexual that probably got a heck of a deal from snap-on to have that eye-searing cabinet in every video. He sure is representative of everyone.
If he wasn't a manlet he could see in most of those drawers. Height of the end cabinets is 6'2" with the casters.
>I bet his snap-on guy gave him the trophies for spending the most money.
Is that even a thing?
they give you other trinkets so a trophy isn't that far off
>tool chest
I'm not gay enough to use something like that, when a plastic bin under the bench perforsm the same exact function
bet his wiener is massive too with nice shaped jaw you massive homosexual. American consumerism has gotten insane
so snap-on is the audiophile boomer brand
Imagine the sound...
>spend 20 grand on cable lifters
>have significant hearing loss and possibly tinnitus
money well spent
Done. Thanks, now I don't have to buy any of that.
From the thumbnail, I thought it was a lizard.
This shit is hillarious but i also totally get it
If i had the money...
Look at this amateur using non-audiophile rated curtain and touching the cable with it.
Mental illness.
All those ferrites clamped onto the power cord of that media player!
My sides.......
What is even under those fat anaconda speaker cables? AWG1 solid core copper?
frickall, copper would sag
looks like faraday cage type sleeves
i love this
you guys dont get it
real tube sounds amazing
i recommend you buy a chink blutooth reciever
buy the way this is for a whole orchestra and can more than do a giant hall
I gotta wonder...does all that shielding mean shit when the tubes are fricking sitting right out in the open like that
Hey! I'm in my father's attic.
neckbeard ascends
Rectum?
Damn near killed 'im!
Just store your tools in cardboard boxes, bro.
0% Down? Where do I sign?
It’s all good until your box gets wet.
>based cat lover
>newport smoker
>tripcode
I really can’t make up my mind about you. You’re quite the artichoke.
Frick that cat. That little shit wandered into my garage one morning like 3 years ago, he was so small that he could barely even walk straight, and now I’m stuck with the thing.
What do you mean my tools have the exact same functionality taken out of a cardboard box compared to stowed in a 5k tookbox? Someone get my Strap On rep on the line, hes got some splainin to do.
Yes
The true Chad uses ammo cans.
i kept my concrete tools in a cardboard box until i found a dewalt bag somewhere and i use that now.
i keep my power tools in a rubbermaid container, its held up three years so far, i try not to yank on it or slam it on the ground.
i have a cute caddy i found behind a dumpster and keep extra bits and pieces in a cardboard shut with a rubber strap.
i keep screws and similar bits in women's clutches i get for free at the flea market
im going to try and line my caddy with cardboard. caddy sucks and drops bits.
flimsy wire mesh at the bottom looks cool/cute but snags and tears
whoops, forgot pic
i miss when i had an umlimited supply of latex gloves from my food service job
>stop liking things I can't afford or don't like
>Why do boomers do this?
so they don't pass the money on to you
poor person who will never amount to anything detected.
>consuming gives meaning to my life
Now this is just sad.
Consooming and Jesus
it does among other things. no need to deny that. we work to consume then we die.
I wild millennial has appeared he also has a super expensive toolbox... huh.
also the guy in the pic is not a boomer. looks like late gen-x
I wonder if that person enjoys watching Black men frick his wife?
and it's basically empty, how moronic
>box
more like room you could live in this thing
op image looks like a food stall
>millennial
neck beard
mouth open like he's about to suck wiener again
Yep. Story checks out.
All my tools are either on wooden shelves or hanging off of nails on the walls
its a tax write off
Thats what somebody who doesn't do taxes say. It just reduces your taxable income. You still pay for it. You also need to have high enough deductions to make it worth itemizing. So makes since for a shop, unlikely for an individual mechanic. Itemizing doesn't make since until you are over 12k in itemized deduction.
if you think your average oil changer is buying these you are dumb as hell. the people dropping money on these boxes have the money coming in. do any specialized work and its easy to get a high enough income to make itemizing everything you buy for your job worth it. I bet you prepay your taxes like some kind of idiot
You can’t write off tools on personal taxes anymore
A lot of mechanics start side businesses and put the tools as an expense for their side business tho
And trades aren’t as high paying as Ben Shapiro says most of these guys are in debt over their eyeballs at their $18/hr job
>$18/hr job
Anybody who ever goes to school for an auto tech job is moronic. For the same schooling, you can start at $30+ in literally any other technical trade and probably don’t need as many specialized tools as a car mechanic who services all different car makes and models.
Nah man
I did a program in high school that made me an auto mechanic, day 1 after graduation I was a flat rate technician at a dealership with two bays. $10/hr flag
Then later got into machining starting pay was like $18
$30hr+ is like master’s degree level pay.
Most trades go their entire careers and never touch that
You might be in the sticks then. Either way any other trade is like auto mechanic pay +60%
Beginner union guys around here are making $30 or damn near it with no experience, and mid 30s with 5 years, and this aint even California or NYC. Diesel and machinery mechanics will all be $25+, $30+ with experience.
I’m in California, remember the trades here are very very low paying because the open border.
$30/hr certified union electricians all went away when hector said he used to be an electrician in Mexico and $5 an hour under the table was a good wage
The lineman union is on the ropes because so many complete contract shops showed up in the last 20 years. Why have a line reward when Hector did it in the old country and shows up with a whole crew
you cant
but your buissness can
shows you know very little, it's not a write off to their personal taxes. it's a right off to their schedule c which reduces their income on their 1040 and then they still get the standard deduction moron.
I'm not advocating snap on boxes, PrepHole would be some wood drawers, but if you claim it as a business expense let's not pretend it wouldn't be cool af to have
Except I said specifically it makes sense for a shop. It's unlikely they'd treat it as a direct "write off" as they're not really an expense. The cost is high enough, the usable life long enough that they'd be classified as assets and depreciated. Especially in a new shop as they'd have plenty of upfront expenses the first few years they wouldn't need this as a "write off".
if you make lets say 100k a year selling car shit
you spend 80k on building buissness more
buying equipment shit improvments,
you only pay taxes on 20k
so yes it could be a tax thing
Americans are proud of the fact that they must buy their own tools to do their job, and the tools stay at the job place
They’re your tools and you can do whatever you would like with them.
Enjoy having a skill but not being able to use that skill to make money unless your boss is there to lend you a tool for a couple hours.
>work
>use money to buy tools to make your boss money and have to take them home and if you forgot bossman will fire you
This is cuckoldry.
>tools are provided, use money to buy tools for home shop
This is based
>have to take them home and if you forgot bossman will fire you
this is bullshit.
I worked as an aircraft mechanic we left our tools there at the hanger for the entire time I worked there.
only construction workers take their tools home. all other shops allow tools to be left on the premises.
^This and those asserting otherwise are larper scum.
Boomers are mostly retired and using that term for anyone born after 1965 highlights the user as a numbass digger.
That said there are many uses for those in serious shops but the top boxes are pointless. Old boy should have called the Lista rep then properly designed useful workspace. Making single tall setups like that is counterproductive and inefficient, just an exercise in buying cabinets. All tool drawers should be easy to look down into for access and end-of-shift inventory. Single wall-style shit is far more wisely divided into multiple wheeled boxes with stainless tops which gains work surface.
t. civilian and USAF toolroom outfitter.
>divided into multiple wheeled boxes with stainless tops which gains work surface
So as a USAF toolroom outfitter would you have any pointers for outfitting of a 1 or 2 car garage as a workshop in addition to the above? Versatility is the most important part I guess.
- IT nerd that's done a bit of mech eng & toolmaking.
Put everything on wheels that isn't already to ensure you can conveniently clean and rearrange it. Versatility is indeed the most important part for PrepHole and that goes with convenience. Do have carts with tops you can use to take things apart then leave undisturbed. Do collect stainless and aluminum kitchen gear from cookie sheets to steam table pots and whatever else seems useful including at least one strainer.
Narrow carts are good. I collect "U-boat dollies" then pull the center axle bolt so I can push them sideways. The uprights will support shelving. Mine currently use boards there as I've been welding other stuff like hanging shelves for my shipping containers but will get my usual angle steel trays with plywood sheets as shelving. Those will be bolted to the uprights for easy future mods.
High hanging storage and shelving near the ceiling puts wasted space to work.
Get good work lighting and task lighting. I favor recheargeable LED headlamps for task lighting because they illuminate where I look.
I don't permanently plumb shop air. I use (rubber, the good shit) air hose and brass fittings instead. My compressors are on castered skids and fed by SOOW extension cords but normie 5HP comps can use ordinary heavy duty 240V cords.
This has worked nicely over the forty+ years I evolved the strategy which is based on deploying. That taught me building shit you cannot change easily is an asspain.
Auctions and Fecesbook Marketplace are good places to score carts, boxes, stainless steel (including sinks and tables) etc.
>Single wall-style shit is far more wisely divided into multiple wheeled boxes with stainless tops which gains work surface.
Next time I overhaul my shop, I'm putting the top boxes somewhere else, or maybe on casters and tucking them under a bench. Bench space is far more useful than drawers that get opened once every 9 weeks.
Easy rugged fix is buy a stick of angle of your choice (heavier is always good) then weld it as an upward-facing tray, and if on the long side with drawers the angle blocks the bottom drawer face that angle downwards.
Weld casters of your choice to that or weld a tube at each corner for round-shank scaffolding casters. If you double the number of tubes yo can use scaffold jacks to raise the box so you can pull the casters for other use. If you use flat mount casters bolt them on with lock nuts so you can remove then in case of unlikely need. Tray dollies are what keep USAF boxes from being destroyed by years of towing around the flightline because a bump won't bend the box. They're a standard item since time out of mind and were ancient during the 1980s when I first saw them.
Carts fabbed locally from standard shapes are common and go cheap at business auctions. They're the easiest to modify into new configs. I cut them apart with zip discs (6" preferred and every mechanic should have at least one 6" angle grinder) and do stuff like make rolling shelves. I've a dental appt today but I'll get some pics. They're nothing special but work absurdly well.
Machining and stuff like controls and CNC repair technicians filter illiterates because math and actual thought. I worked in trades education after taking machiniing and welding courses for fun in retirement and used to do industrial maintenance (which was fun and also filters most idiots). None of that beat the Air Force though and fixing fighters while not for the sensitive is fun for a real mechanic/technician.
Even more fun was fully retiring at 47 (I enlisted late) while my HS peers were still working. Government jobs are always desirable because vested retirement and reliable cash flow unless your civilization actually collapses.
^This, the last was born 1965.
The only boomers who built boxes were HVAC &sheet metal techs who did little ones as school projects.
Note suppliers will cut the steel to length for transport so measure wisely leaving a little clearance for fitting. Pic is typical dolly. Note center bolt. You can pull those even if dolly is loaded by jacking it slightly.
I keep a collection of car and truck pantograph jacks for lifting and positioning. I weld nuts to the ones not so equipped then run them up and down with my impact. I barely use my floor jack any more (and of course use wood cribbing when lifting vehicles or anything else heavy).
this so much
real boomers over here had to build their workbenches from pallet wood because they had not much after the war, and often kept them till they died.
or they were lucky and got to take a few lista cabinets home from work when the CI manager decided the reseda green is ugly and all toolboxes got changed to blue or gray in the 90s
Boomers didn’t fight in world war 2 you fricktard, it’s literally their name on why and how they were conceived
>USAF toolroom outfitter.
teach us then senpai.
>have to take them home and if you forgot bossman will fire you
Lmao. Yeah homosexual, the guy in the OP is loading that up in the back of his truck every night to go home. You sound like a legit moron. Even a” normal” sized box can weigh a thousand pounds when it’s full of tools.
I worked aircraft maintenance and they lived in the hanger unless I took them home. The company even paid for the insurance.
If your boss’ assets get seized through a bankruptcy your tools are in the building and an asset of the company so yeah having your big ass $250k box that you can’t move unless you rent a truck is a huge liability
I tend to keep my tools in tool boxes that I can carry with me and put in my car and keep the bigger box at home
>personal preference is often worth paying for.
imagine bossman not paying for the tools you need
go to https://www.hoffmann-group.com/US/en/hus/ Coppy all wera wiha hazet Pb-swiss tools i want to outlook and sent it to the tool guy and he orders it for me.
he will order all hand tools i want for my personal toolbox, power tools we have in a common storage for everyone to use, all hilti and festool ofcourse.
Mechanics are willfully moronic and deserve what they get.
This may be difficult to understand since you are not a mechanic but personal preference is often worth paying for. Many Americans own land (one must be royalty for that in Eurogaygia) and have both shop and home on the same property (as do I and it's delightfully convenient) . Their equipment is thus multiple use since unlike Euros we are allowed to own more than one internal combustion engine and have things called "hobbies" which can include powerboat racing, drag racing, dirt track, road etc.
Having the cost of a cheap car in tools is painless like the cost of (soon to be outlawed in Europe) gasoline.
a fool and his monies
I see some trophies on that bench so he must be doing something right.
Race well and that attracts sponsors who may donate parts and equipment.
that homie is sponsored
>not building your own toolbox
Truly boomers are the laziest generation
let's see your hand built toolbox then
People with setups like that either have way more money than they need, in which case it doesn't matter how much they pay for shit, or they use those tools to make money in which case expense is justified and compensated for. Everyday people don't have setups like this.
There’s a lot of auto shops where dudes are in a competition to see who can be in more debt to the Snap On dealer. It puts a lot of young guys in debt when they think they need a box that costs as much as a moderately equipped 2024 F-150. A lot of the dudes, even if they do it for a living, it’s not a justifiable expense.
They realize their kids would just spend the money on chopping their dicks off and hormones so why not splurge a little.
Seriously though why do tool chests costs so much? I just hang everything on the wall or leave it on the table or in random boxes like an animal
its the gucci of tools
Because steel isnt cheap (especially after the Trump Tariffs jacked prices up)
It costs a lot to deliver and store them, it costs a lot to paint them.
Look up the raw materials to build your own and itll quickly make sense.
I've been working on distilling my handheld 3-drawer toolbox into the most important things I use every time I work on a car, with a second 3-drawer handheld toolbox for extra diagnostic and more infrequently used tools. I'm doing this since I'm living in a small apartment without a garage right now and I frequently find myself going outside, to friends houses, or to shops and wishing I had my specific tools. This way I can grab a box or bag or two and know I have exactly what I want. It's working out pretty well and I'd recommend it - also the little toolboxes are basically free, lots of people getting rid of them for cheap. Tonight I cad modeled an organizing tray for a few of my harbor freight socket sets (Quinn short and tall 1/4" and Icon Torx) which is specifically designed to be printed on an Ender 3.
I bought a Hart 36 inch tool chest like this for 400$. It has soft close drawers and seems to hold decent weight. I don't suspect I'll ever need anything more.
i bought a 5 drawer harbor freight model as my first toolbox and the fricker is totally full a year later. it's been good but i think the time is coming for me to replace it, not because it's broken or anything, but because it's just too small for what i have now.
Keep the cart for your go-to auto stuff so you can roll it close to the car, get a bigger main box for everything else. That’s what I have going on.
>where is the boss’s impact?
>Chaz broke it again
Oh no!
There’s pros and cons to each, but your work capabilities are still owned by your boss, and that tool cage gets factored into the budget.
>my personal toolbox
Your employer’s box that you use*
They worked their whole lives and have enough spare money to have fun with it. The thing is, I doubt the college fund of his children are paid up. Or that he have children at all.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003JDZO2Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
are the scaffolding casters I use. They're also handy for moving machinery and one set can serve a variety of dollies or boxes if you make it easy to raise the box to remove and install them.