Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[Threepoint]

I am in China at the moment... seems there should be the mother of all Harbor Freight stores around here somewhere! :laughing:

Hey Dragoneggs, you don't need HF if you're already there! When I was in Hong Kong years ago, I stopped into Henderson Furniture and ordered a dining room and office full of custom rosewood furniture. They shipped it to me a couple months later. Maybe you can take a side trip to a factory in Shandong and have that dream shop of tool cabinets custom made. :dance1:

 

[California]

I am in China at the moment... seems there should be the mother of all Harbor Freight stores around here somewhere!

Alibaba, man! Its the Amazon of China, listing everything you can imagine at wholesale prices for export. I expect you can find nearly 100% of HF's identical items on Alibaba.

Here's an example in their Tractors section, a 20 horsepower mini farm tractor for your rice paddy for $1200!

2hp Mini Farm Garden 2wd Tractor - Buy Mini Tractor,Tractor,Tractor Mini Product on Alibaba.com

... or a wide variety of equipment described as 'Massey Ferguson 290' from $1700 to $19,000!

 

[dragoneggs]

Alibaba, man! Its the Amazon of China, listing everything you can imagine at wholesale prices for export. I expect you can find nearly 100% of HF's identical items on Alibaba.

Here's an example in their Tractors section, a 20 horsepower mini farm tractor for your rice paddy for $1200!

2hp Mini Farm Garden 2wd Tractor - Buy Mini Tractor,Tractor,Tractor Mini Product on Alibaba.com

... or a wide variety of equipment described as 'Massey Ferguson 290' from $1700 to $19,000!

I'm talking brick and mortar, man! Alibaba is Amazon East.

 

[Rock Crawler]

My wife came home today and took over the sticker application job. I'd say it's got enough....

 

[stuckmotor]

That's probably the only sticker application job I ever saw that Improved the looks of the cabinet.

 

[bigtiller]

My wife came home today and took over the sticker application job. I'd say it's got enough.... View attachment 577450

looks like my fridg.

 

[Citydude]

My wife came home today and took over the sticker application job. I'd say it's got enough.... View attachment 577450

Still nine drawers without a sticker? Its unbalanced!

 

[Rock Crawler]

Hot Wife and I started labeling the drawers. Labeling helps immensely when you have outsiders in your garage, and honestly it will help me for a few weeks while I'm getting used to the new arrangement.

 

[thepumpguysc]

That's NUTS.. Lol {stickers}
I too have separate boxes for different "pumps" I work on.. it has all the special tools AND hand tools and adaptors needed..
THAT makes for A LOT of double & triple & quad. wrenches, sockets & nut drives.. BUT..
...its ALL there in 1 place.. I just wheel it to the table & go to work.
I love it..

 

[Threepoint]

Hot Wife and I started labeling the drawers. Labeling helps immensely when you have outsiders in your garage, and honestly it will help me for a few weeks while I'm getting used to the new arrangement.View attachment 577469

With all those distinctive stickers, why do you want labels? I never label any of my tool drawers, cabinets and trays. Keeps you sharp. Remember the old TV game "Concentration", hosted by Hugh Downs? I keep a mental image of what's in each drawer, and make it a challenge to choose the right one each time. Sure, you pull out the wrong one now and then, but over time you get more accurate. :laughing:

I don't know if Hugh Downs has tool cabinets, but I bet he has sock and skivvy drawers. He's 97 and still going strong, so I figure that's the secret. :thumbsup:

Now, if you regularly have other folks using your tools, you're in real trouble without labels. But for that matter they're probably not going to put the tools back in the right places anyway.