How Old is Your Tool Box?

[MinnesotaEric]

How old is your tool box?

My old Mac Tools MB1500 dates from the eighties. I used to have a Mac Tools top chest as well, but that was stolen when my shop was broken into and the thieves used our wrecker to boost my top tool box. Anyway, here is my tool box.

 

[the old grind]

My Craftsman rollaways are 10+ & 30+ yrs old, the HFT about 1. My Gerstner is 20+, and my Kennedy is 70+. None are particularly photogenic. All are in current (this week) use. My new NH lacks a steel toolbox behind the seat like the '98 had. The Deere has a box (poly) above the left fender but no lid on it. There are others. There will be more.

 

[George2615]

I have Craftsman tool boxes. The first tool box was just a Craftsman single box with a single drawer and a lift handle on top. I quickly overfilled that box with tools. I started working as a mechanic in a gas station and the other mechanics were generous enough to let me use their tools when I didn't have the right one. In 1970 I rec'd. a 3 piece Craftsman tool box set from my parents at Christmas. Over the next few years I quickly filled those boxes from the tools guys that used to come by the garage every week (Mac, Snap On, etc.). By the late 70's I bought another Craftsman tool box set just a top chest and a bottom. Both boxes are about 5' tall and I still have them. They may not look the best (tops are too cluttered to take a pic of them) but all the drawers still slide easily. They still roll around but are so heavy I usually walk to them to get the tool I need.
The small box on the back of my Tractor was my Fathers. Not sure if it was an old ammo box but I know it's over 60 years old. I store extra pins and small hand tools in there.

 

[bcp]

I gave my father's 70+ Kennedy to my son when he needed one. Three generations and still good.

Bruce

 

[jaotguy]

1967 first big tool box ... 1976 new addition ... many more after that ...

 

[Bill 55]

My Mac boxes are about the same age as yours. Drawer top and 12 drawer bottom. I'll look in the morning and see what the model numbers are.
Bill

 

[Haoleguy]

The small box on the back of my Tractor was my Fathers. Not sure if it was an old ammo box but I know it's over 60 years old. I store extra pins and small hand tools in there.

George - Is that a 12v outlet on the box or some kind of "shock" locking system?.....Gary

 

[George2615]

George - Is that a 12v outlet on the box or some kind of "shock" locking system?.....Gary

No, it's my backup camera. I didn't want to suction cup mount to the glass nor mount on the fender.

 

[mikim]

I have 1 craftsman carry box that was my Dad's....dates from the late 30s or early 40s.. Actually, my son has it at the moment. Hope he hangs on to it.

 

[bigtiller]

My first box was a portable Craftsman with the handle on top of a folding lid. It came with my first set of wrenches and sockets from Sears during the summer of 1967. The top box I am using today is a Craftsman also that I bought new in the summer of 1973.

 

[jimpen]

Well my oldest one I got in 1987. It was a straight plain old Craftsman with a lift out top box. I also got a full set of Craftsman wrenches and socket. It was interesting how I got it. My roommate in the USAF owed me $200 but couldn't come up with the cash to pay me back. But had a Sears credit card with like a $2000 limit on it. So he took me to Sears and let me buy $200 worth of stuff on the card. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have bought it for myself.

 

[94BULLITT]

The one Snap on box is 10 years old and the other is 4 years old.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Well my oldest one I got in 1987. It was a straight plain old Craftsman with a lift out top box. I also got a full set of Craftsman wrenches and socket. It was interesting how I got it. My roommate in the USAF owed me $200 but couldn't come up with the cash to pay me back. But had a Sears credit card with like a $2000 limit on it. So he took me to Sears and let me buy $200 worth of stuff on the card. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have bought it for myself.

That is typical .mil lol Good story.

Anyway guys, no photos?

 

[94BULLITT]

Here is one of them

 

[Loadstar]

New snap on less than a year old I picked up for $1k. Also have a couple crapsman's I would like to roll off in a ditch. One is ball bearing junker that lives on the work truck and the other is a slide less waste of metal. Just also was given a decent old craftsman roll around bottom box.

 

[94BULLITT]

New snap on less than a year old I picked up for $1k. Also have a couple crapsman's I would like to roll off in a ditch. One is ball bearing junker that lives on the work truck and the other is a slide less waste of metal. Just also was given a decent old craftsman roll around bottom box.

I like the green snap on boxes.

 

[ultrarunner]

My Craftsman box is 40 years old... got it as a Christmas present from my parents...

My step-grandfather gave me a wooden machinist tool box age unknown...

 

[MinnesotaEric]

New snap on less than a year old I picked up for $1k. Also have a couple crapsman's I would like to roll off in a ditch. One is ball bearing junker that lives on the work truck and the other is a slide less waste of metal. Just also was given a decent old craftsman roll around bottom box.

One grand? Sign me up, I'll take three, please!

 

[Tomtint]

I hava a few Craftsmsn boxes. I bought them back in 1989/90 ish. About 5-6 years ago we moved and I put them and al. My tools into a garage for storage. Well some crackhead broke in and emptied all the draws of the tools but left the boxes. Maybe they were to heavy for his junky azz to carry. Since then I have been buying replacement tools here and there as I need them ( really pisses me off ) He got away with 12-15k worth of tools in all. Probably sold them for 100.00

 

[roadhunter]

I've got a pretty old set. Not sure how old but the snap on logo is different.