post your tool box(s)

[hotrodpc]

Are you kidding me Brad? I always thought the box was most important. When I worked at Firestone for a short time, them guys up there had the really nice Snap on boxes, like 75, but then you open the drawers, I swear, I think they went to swap meet and bought everything in sight that said TAIWAN on it.

[75K30]

A Snap-On box with other than Snap-On tools in it is shamefull. It is true though, and I have seen this many times.
A guy mentioned this same thing to me one day out on the trail. He said look at that guy with the shiny trucks and worthless Snap-On tool box in the bed. He stated that the truck was a mall crawler and the box probably had tools made in china.
I explained that his alligator mouth was writting checks that his hummingbird a$$ could not cash. If he was a wagering man, I would bet him that he could inspect my box, and if he could find ONE tool that was not a Snap-On, I would give him the entire truck. If he could not find one, then he would have to give me the keys to his.
He was not man enough to make the wager.
Soon he got stuck, and I noticed this. He was burried in mud to his doors, so I drove up next to him, stopped, and asked him what he thought of my "mall crawler" now. Then I drove right past him leaving him embarrased and in the wake of giant pieces of flying mud. My Boggers tend to make the mud fly, I mean really fly. I left him stuck for a while. After enough time had past, and after several attempts from others to pull him out failed, I hooked up to him and yanked him clean out of the hole he was in. I hit that thing hard, and thought I ripped his truck in half.
He then needed to borrow some tools and asked me for mine. I explained that I would gladly tow him back to the staging area so he could find some tools, but my tools were not coming out of my box. He would have a better shot at sleeping with my wife than use my tools.
He made several mistakes. He ran his mouth and criticized my tools, and my truck. That dont go over too well with me.
Dont mess with my dog, dont ask to borrow my tools or my truck and I can get along fine with anyone.

My trucks are made in the USA and so are my tools.

[hotrodpc]

How's your wife 75? Got a pic??? ........................ Jus Kiddin, but that is good way to get your point across. That is a funny story. Its nice when you get a chance for idiots like that to have to eat crow. I am a little more cruel than that. I'd went over there and bragged about my truck and make him beg for to me to pull him out. I did something silmilar once at the street races in the day. Dodge boy come around with a wore out 440 motor that he added a biggo cam, tunnel ram and dual quads. He started knocking the Chevy guys but wouldn't race any of them. He made the comment, I'd rather push a Dodge than drive a Chevy. I had told him, thats a good thing because you probably will end up pusing it. He was out showing off with a burn out, not racing anyone either mind you, just doing a major burn out and he chucked a rod. Oh that was awesome. Oil everywhere. None of the Chevy guys helped him push it into the parking lot eihter. Later that night, he asked me if I could tow him home since he lived in my neighborhood. I told him that just wouldn't look right, a junky Chevy towing a Dodge. Then I told him, I'd offer him a ride home to get his mommy's triple A card, but I know he wouldn't want to be seen in a Chevy. Didn't have cell phones back then. I told him I'd call him a cab to pick him up when I got home. Finally he did start begging and offering money for a tow home. I did take his money, and I took the long way home to be sure and pull him by all the Chevy guys houses and even one of the other Dodge boys so they could see it. He happens to be somewhat of a buddy now. I had not seen the guy in 19 years, but he knew I moved to OK. He now lives in FL, but he came to Joplin, MO to pick up a Dodge he bought off eBay a couple of months ago, so he looked me up and stopped by for a night. You can bet, I did remind him about that night, and he sure remembers it. I offered him his $30 back, he didn't want it.

[bradrhale]

i dont have to have awesome looking boxes. if i worked with these tools on a daily basis, i might look into buying a really nice box but i dont. they are not cheap boxes so dont get me wrong there. i dont buy anything that doesnt have ball bearing drawer slides. that thing had better have a nice smooth slide to it.
you mention about people buying high dollar boxes with cheap tools. i spend my money on the nicer, more reliable tools because tools fix the truck. not the box.

[hotrodpc]

Agreed, I would buy boxes with roller slides. The first box I got was a Christmas gift from a GF in 1986 and it is not roller slides. Then I outgrew it and was going upgrade to a bigger box, in 2001 then decided to get off real cheap and just buy another matching box to the one I alredy had and that is why I do not have roller slides. It works OK though. And the money I saved on the box I was going buy and settled for another matching cheap box, I just bought me a real nice fireproof gun vault. I have serveral guns, and my son was getting to the age of curiosity. After a boy, 50 miles from here, the same age as my son at the time, got one of his dads guns and accidently killed hiself, I relaized the $800 gun vault was cheaper than a funeral and my tools were not as important in that respect. That is the biggest reason that decision was made. Now my boy is 12, so he may inherit my Craftsman boxes to start him out, like they did me, and I can get me a nice roller slide box. Still hoping 75 may want me to haul off those ugly red boxes he's got. I am still trying to convince him blue is better.

[bradrhale]

i hear you about the guns and taking the precaution to prevent something like that is a great reminder to forum onlookers. i too have several but are spread out over several different residences for various reasons. all of them behind lock and key except for one. that one serves a purpose.
i have 2 tackle boxes i use for tool boxes. they dont get water in the drawers and load very easily in the back of any vehicle i might go out in. armed with various stuff that the normal person would think ridiculous, i can get near anything off the side of the road and to the next auto house.

[hotrodpc]

Got it, same here. All locked up except 1 for a "purpose" if needed. And it usually on me since I am licensed to carry. In my line of work, you never know what can happen.
Here are pics of my "other box" The one I bought instead of a nicer tool box. As you can tell, it looks cluttered. I keep everything in it of importance, like my external hard drive back ups, meds that I do not want the kids into, car titles, SS card, birth certificates, marriage license and divorce docs, deed to the house, insurance policies, photo negatives etc. Should the house burn down, my computers are backed up and all the important docs are saved along with my other 16 tools. Probably the best $800 I ever spent. Actually is was $799 when I bought it, and on sale for $599. Can't remember for sure now. At any rate, it kept my family safe. I can always buy a nicer tool box later, but I can not buy another kid, so this decision was made. I am certainly pro gun, but I am also pro gun control.

[bradrhale]

look at it this way. people used to work with their guns by providing food for the family. i could see how one would call a gun cabinet a tool box. thumbs up from me.

[hotrodpc]

Certainly so. No matter how you look at it falls under the Tools/Toys category. There are few that tried to feel sorry for me in the divorce, including myself at first. But then I realized, I didn't lose anything that couldn't be replaced, and I got to keep my toys. Tools, guns, computers, ATV's, box van and trailers.

[crabtruck]

Not real practical for me to keep my guns in a locker,
I just throw a shirt on.