shopping trip yesterday.

[Pa PITT]

So it was cold & rainy here yesterday 34 36 Mist and more wind than I cared to work in.
SO Being the good husband I am, I suggest the Wife & I & some friends go to the next big town north & let the WIVES GO SHOPPING .. Me & bUTCH WILL just stumble around in say . HomeDepot or Maybe a trip into Harbor Freight .;D
...
SO WIVES ENJOYED & I got a new tool box.
I've been wanting a Yellow Toolbox . Harbor just added Orange Green Blue & YELLOW .. I've got a couple of the smaller Black & 2 Red bigger old Shop boxes.
But It's gotten to where we have so many Metric tools. SO I've came up with the thought I'LL put all my Metrics in this new yellow box & Free up some room in my other boxes .
... I'll get up a couple of picture in a while . Pete normally installs them for me . I'll show one in the Box before I start & ONE AFTER I GET IT PUT TOGETHER ..
The wife never gripped once.
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... We also found 2 huge bags of Charcoal for $8.98 both .. Like 36lbs.

 

[fatboy]

The before picture:

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[Pa PITT]

... OK Thanks Pete .
I'm not sure I'll ever get this box put together .. Bottom tray I just spent almost 2 hours putting the rollers under the tray . each roller had 4 5/16 CARRIAGE HEAD BOLTS ..
need 2 person doing this one. I say if anyone goes & Buys one of these boxes .. pick up a box of Hex Head bolts. Hex heads could be held with a back up wrench ..
SO Next step . I may have to have a beer soon.
Oh did I mention I moved that section inside the house . It's cold outside.

 

[sprdv1]

LOL, yeah Beer, take a step back then jump back into it

 

[fatboy]

Some assembly required...

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[fatboy]

Almost done:

Good thing you have all those metric tools Pa!!!!!


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[Slowleak]

That’s a nice looking box.

 

[Pa PITT]

OK Sorry guys this didn't go how I had it planned .. I started about 2 pm putting this together. I'd read a review on this box. It's a cheap box but the review was about as good as the Matco it was compared to. This box is normally 229.00 I got a couple of good discounts. SO I gave $186.00 for it . The Matco box it's compared to was about 500.00 I believe. .. But the review said it was a bitch to put together. & I'll say it was. POOR instructions . & If it'd just had hex head bolts .. YOU COULD HAVE HELD THEM WITH A Back up wrench . The carriage head bolt . Didn't want to go into the holes . Power coating had blocked most holes . So Glad I had some SPUD wrenches .
But one good thing was they tried to put it together with all the same bolts so you don't get the wrong ones on the wrong places ..
.. But after I got it all bolted together .. The box it has is one piece with 5 draws & Heavy .. Instruction said don't try lifting by your self .. SO I got my neighbor to come help me lift it. I understood how it worked He didn't . So it took a while but we got it lifted up over 4 ft & then placed it in the upright arms. It drops down & set on an angle iron frame . SO It's a good built box. Bearings on all the trays or shelves or draws .. Hood shocks for the lid. & All draws lock ..
.. Over all I'll bet this box weights about 125 maybe 150 lbs.

 

[Pa PITT]

Now I already thinking I need another box.
.. I've got 7 boxes now.
2 larger than this one .. This one & 2 or 3 of the roll around convenance boxes . & 2 more setting in some S/S roll arounds from the hospital.
& ANOTHER MIDDLE SECTION SETTING on a bench I try to make just a place i WORK ON ELECTRICIAL STUFF.

 

[Pa PITT]

.. i'M GOING TO REWRITE THAT POST ..
I'VE GOT MY DADS old Craftsman upper & lower box . He got it while working on Helicopter for Vietnam . They trained the Pilots there. It's about 6 ft tall.
2nd box I put together over the years . while I had the parts store A lot of people pawned me stuff ..
SO FROM one poor sole a bottom & from another a good top box.. & Then I decided I need a middle section .. . Pawn shop I think on the middle section.
.. & Another roll around cart .. and added under tray. Then I Picked up a flea market top box & Then a home depot middle section .
.. & Just that fast all most the same set up come available & I pick it up on a pawn . They never come back & I took it home .
Been happy with those for years but all of a sudden I've started needing
more boxes.
SO I bought a couple of those small $99.00 roll around from Harbor Freight ..
Then another .
... & Now this one. & I even wrote & ask Harbor Freight to add a Yellow tool Box to their line up .
THEY DID . Don't know if it was any way because of my E-MAIL . BUT they added Green .. ORANGE.. & BLUE along with the YELLOW BOX.
... I MAY NEED A GREEN ON NOW.

 

[Pa PITT]

PETE THANKS for adding my pictures of the boxes.

 

[fatboy]

PETE THANKS for adding my pictures of the boxes.

Last two I got:

Glad you completed that task Pa!


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[sprdv1]

PETE THANKS for adding my pictures of the boxes.

Looks nice chief...

 

[half cab]

Darn it! I'm liking that yellow too now Pa

 

[Pa PITT]

.. The Yellow means Metric on Farm Drive line equipment . My Bailer had a yellow quick coupling for the PTO . . My kid had know it was wrong But hadn't said a word. But he's really tight lipped ''ROOSTER'' ..
BUT When I went & got it for him to borrow .. He was hell No I ain't running that on my 40,000 dollar Bailer. SO then he told me.. Dang Boy why hadn't you ask .. HELL YOU KNOW everything else.
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...So I GUESS that's why I'm relating my Metric tools to the Yellow box.