Tool Organizers

Is this the way your projects go? You take a few tools outside to work on an outdoor project. A little ways into the project you discover that you need another tool or two. Later on you need another couple of tools. When you finish the project, it takes a bunch of trips back and forth to get all the tools back where they belong, and you begin to wonder how all those tools got out there. It seems like it takes more trips to get them back in than to take them out in the first place.

Or you are asked to help out your mother-in-law or friend, so you make several trips out to your vehicle with the tools you will need. Then when you get back, it takes several trips to get them back in again.

Enter the "tool organizer." Toolbarn.com has several varieties that would solve this problem. You can put in all the tools you need and make just one trip!




The picture to the right is my favorite, the Irwin Industrial Tools 4402013 18" Tool Center. It includes webbing to hold 24" level, adjustable shoulder strip and padded handle, and unique split sided design for easy access to both hand tools and power tools. The list price is $100.94. Your price is just $63.00 and it ships for only a penny. How cool is that?



If you prefer a bag type, there is the Makita 821012-A 16" 24 pocket tool bag shown to the left. It is a 16" heavy duty tool bag which easily fits hypoid saw, top handle saw or planer, it is water resistant, and has a padded handle and shoulder strap. This one lists for $37.80, but is now just $23.95, again with penny shipping.







Or perhaps you prefer a bucket type organizer, such as the Milwaukee 49-17-0170 Bucket Tool Organizer. It includes a dedicated speed square sleeve, internal drill holster to securely hold up to an 18V Milwaukee hammer-drill, driver/drill, or impact wrench, and 55 total pockets of assorted shapes and sizes positioned inside and out. This one lists for $31.95, now just $19.85, with penny shipping of course.



There you have several types of tool organizers as possibilities. You can do a search at Toolbarn.com and browse through their 84 possibilities if one of these doesn't suit your fancy. The next step is up to you. If you don't buy one of these (or hint for one for Christmas), then I don't ever want to hear you whining and complaining about all the trips it took you to get your tools back so you could hang them up where they look nice and are easy to find.