Thanks Doug. How I want to go down to my garage which is a workshop disaster and organize everything. Here I was sitting peacefully watching videos on a Sunday morning and now I'm going to work on it. My wife thanks you. LOL Great video.
For the longer pipes & flat bar material I would attach a small lip-shelf to the side of the toolbox and store them vertically. That way you still have them handy and they're too short to be stored with the long/full length stuff. Thanks for the vid this was great!!
I have 2 of those in Orange. One for the garage and one for the Woodworking shop. If you ever get another one, take out the drawers, makes it a lot easier to unload :) Great content keep up the great work!
U hav some Awesome & VERY inspiring ideas for getting organized! I am struggling big time w/organization. It is very overwhelming for me. Thank u for this vid and for ur vid w/Hometown Acres where u showed us some of ur Awesome storage ideas. I luv how u organized ur tool boxes. U should make a quick short vid on how u determined the best location to put things in ur tool box and why? I look forward to more vids! Thank u!🍻🍻👍👍
Well, they are safety glasses with readers. I wouldn’t be able to read the label maker without them on. And, haven’t you heard how dangerous label makers are…😜 serious eye injury is possible. 😆
I'm a Scrounger. Have been for 65 years and see no end to my scrounging in the foreseeable future. I've turned my wife into a Scrounger as well, whenever she goes for a walk Ann always brings home nuts bolts or washers that she picks up along the road. Sometimes she even brings back tools like a 50-psi diaphragm air compressor, "Is this any good dear?" "You betcha honey!" I have a lot of boxes and cans full to the brim of stuff that I continually "mine for gold" whenever I do a project. I would love to figure out how much money in time and materials I have saved over the years. Great video Doug amazing organizational skills, thumbs up.
I can relate. I’ve built from chicken coops, to fix, fabricate, brackets, for washing machines, truck alternators… for friends that don’t have spendable income out of free hardware, that I’ve managed to get for free. I had a Porsche shop, where I restored vintage Porsche cars, I built custom kit cars. I’ve built off road race cars, I was a fabricator for Carol Shelby. You have to love what you do.
Love your organization and 6S videos! Visual management at it's best. Coming from a machining background we had 3 storage methods. A steel rack that held from 20'+ to 10', then a vertical rack(half an A frame) that held 10' to 3' sticks, on the back of the vertical rack were shelves that held 3' to 1', then a flat shelf system similar to what you are doing with the tool box that held 1' and under. As the pieces got shorter we moved the location of that stick accordingly.
Sure has made it worth the money I spent on the tool box. Now I have a designated place for cut offs and an easy way to find small stuff when I need something!
I have 6 top & bottom boxes, the largest Snap On box has all Snap On tools in it, the others have Craftsman, Mac, Icon, and new & used hardware… otherwise I’d have 22 five gallon pails of stuff.
Funny about you telling about the yellow being cheaper... I went to HF today... It is the same price as the others and are all sold out here in town.. LOL.... Too funny.... I guess here in North Georgia, we like yellow....
i’m a retired Professinal Woodworker and we often have the same issues with CutOffs from our Exotic Lumbers , there are always tons of little projects I can find with all those CutOffs i do admit the discount on the Yellow Boxes is a nice deal but IMO that is a ButtvUglybColor i do think i personally would Respray one if i did take advantage of buying one at the reduced price FYI. i do own the Painting Equipment to do so and i have sprayed Automobiles etc oh BTW Harbor Freight does sellS ratch and Dented ToolBoxes they are listed on a Website simply called Harbor Freight Scratch and Dent , as far as Tool Boxes they do see to have decent discounted Icon brand Tool Boxes more than the US General lines for some reasons IDK Why ? those. you can have shipped to your address or store of your choice
I'll check my harbor freight to see if they have any deals on unpopular colors. I bought a 72 in bright green in color. Did not get a $100 off sale. Thanks for the great ideas. Bob
The drone gave it all away. You got a ton of grass to mow! Now, I wished I had your problem with left-overs. If only I had your welding skills. Enjoyed your videos. Dave
( I bought another Craftsman tool box recently....I've started buying 20 and 30 year old boxes. I was wondering if I should use it or try to preserve its great condition. Your video made me realize I have some tools I actually want to pass along to others, they can go into a mint condition box. (Less use, and a space organizer idea)). tHanks for the video!
dam i bought one of these a month ago. i would actually like the yellow . if i had known they were 80 bucks less i would have bought that instead of red
I think this channel is overdue for a vehicle fleet review. Including ATV's, tractors, mud racing beaters etc. But Autumn has to be in that one for us to watch it.
Doug, great job with that! I work in wood and have a similar compulsion, like you, around organization. I established, one, organized space for cut offs/shorts. I also have one bin for scrap. Then I established a firm rule for myself. When I finish a job, I put my cut offs in the shorts rack. If it won’t fit, something has to go into the scrap bin. When the scrap bin is full, it gets purged for kindling. In the end, I have controlled, limited space for shorts and scrap that doesn’t grow and I stay organized. There is a clip on it in my workshop tour video. Another thought would be to replace the doors under that counter with drawers. Make them sturdy and use full extension drawer glides. 100 pound per drawer may do, or you could go with file cabinet glides that will surely do. I REALLY enjoy you videos. Your skills, workflow and organization habits are great. But equally, I like how your creative, problem solving brain works!
I had faith you could get it out alone until I saw you standing on that piece of cardboard. THAT was dangerous and you are very lucky it remained under your feet! I have 4 of those toolboxes. I made a modification to 3 of them because they hold a LOT of tools. What I did was, got a piece of angle iron long enough to run completely front to back and wide enough to cover the rivnuts the casters bolt to but not tall enough to interfere with the bottom drawers. Something like 2"×4"×the length. I drilled out where the rivnuts are, used washers to equal the rivnut height then ran a nut onto every castor bolt. That makes a HUGE difference. Those 3 also have the top box. With several drawers fully open and loaded (a LOT of weight) it has never hinted at tipping forward. If you don’t beef up the suspension but you do fill it full with heavy stuff you're asking an awful lot of the bottom sheet metal. Good luck.
Can you build slide out trays for the bottom cabinets? I build 9 slide out trays in mine. My theory is “if you can’t readily see your inventory, you don’t have it. Like you I never throw away scraps 👍🏼
Great idea and execution, Doug! I am going to do something similar when I get around to building my welding cart. A thought for you concerning what to do with the pieces too long for the drawers - I thought about mounting 2 separate pieces of 4" pvc pipe 16-24 inches long (depending on how long my scrap is) to the side of the roll around cabinet. That way, I would have all the scrap together on one cart/toolbox. Thanks for the video!! Floyd
You are a master at organization! I struggle with organization on a daily basis. My clutter and lack of organization create stress and makes my workflow very inefficient.
Dude. Yes. Thank you for posting this! My wife thinks I'm crazy about organizing, but it's not crazy. It's sane. A disorganized shop is what's crazy! I did this same thing about a decade ago with my sheetmetal (aluminum, stainless, titanium, and copper), rubber, lexan, and HDPE stock. I didn't use HF cabinets, but it's the same idea. I also got some small cube-shaped flex-a-top containers from LAContainer and sorted and labeled all of my hardware (rivets, screws, bolts, nuts, washers, nutplates, etc) and filled the drawers of another cabinet with them. It took me six tool cabinets for everything, but it cleaned up the shop, opened up bench space, and has greatly reduced the amount of time I used to spend looking for stock and hardware. My cabinets aren't on wheels. I arranged them side-side (3 boxes/side) and back-back, but left a space of maybe 12"-18" (I'd have to measure because I don't remember exactly right now) between the back-backs so they are basically two rows of three boxes, parallel, and back to back to each other. Then I covered the top of both cabinets and the space between with two layers of 3/4 inch plywood, and covered that with a sacrificial 1/4 inch fiberboard that gets replaced when it starts to look too worn and beat up. Since the top covers everything, it looks cohesive, like it's one piece of shop furniture. I also made a long narrow cart on wheels that holds my large and long pieces of sheetmetal. That sheetmetal is stored vertically in the cart. That cart is stored in the open area between the backs of the tool cabinets. It's easy to pull out when I need more material than what I have in the drawers. Anyhow, cool video! You are an excellent communicator and your camera shots are always perfect. I enjoyed watching this.
These are much better made than people would think from the price. A friend has a lot of Snap-On cabinets. Really, at several times the price, they’re not that much better. And if you want something better, HF has more expensive choices that are still a lot less expensive, and strangely, better than Snap-On.
I think your workshop organisation videos are some of the best iv found online, with those 4 lengths of flat bar too big for the tool box but too small for your steel rack , what about if you tacked the 4 pieces together then store on your big rack ? Awesome otherwise
Your scrap steel/aluminium storage prior to the toolbox is at least an order of magnitude better organised than mine. Mine just gets tossed into a spread out pile outside my shed door and I rat through it when I need a bit of steel.
Wow! You & I are two peas in a pod. First off I applaud your choice of Harbor Freight boxes. I worked 45 years in parts at Cummins. I saw every conceivable tool storage options you could imagine. I will say this truck boxes are way over priced. Our shop foreman wanted a P.O. For a bunch of Matco tool carts. They were over a grand a piece. I told him you need to go to HF and look at the 5 drawer tool carts. Then the were about 150.00 each. He went and came back with 6 of them for the shop. He laughed and said I got these 6 for the price of 1 Matco cart. I also like the fact that all HF boxes have drawers that are hemmed on the top, or rolled over. No sharp edges like my MAC box or a Craftsman. I have a HF side box I hung on the side of my tool cart. The large bottom drawer has two slides on each side. You’d think my MAC box would, nope. So needless to say I am totally sold on HF boxes. When I unloaded my HF box, I did the same thing you did. Since I’m a bit OCD, I took the other corner protectors, cut them to fit and slid one piece under the front & back edges between the wheels. I taped them up to hold them in place, then I ran my ratchet straps around them. I placed the straps right next to the wheels on both ends so there was no interference with the tail gate. I’m not sure if you solved the rest of your storage for you metal? I think HF has 15% off this weekend on tool boxes. You could snag a top box and put all you light weight tubing in it, key stock, marking tool or small cutoff tools for metal whether hack saws, rotor cut off wheels, supplies etc. the nice thin is it’s all mobile now, at least in that part of the shop. It looks like you’ve really freed up some room in that corner. Maybe you could do a video on what you might do with that space now. Will you store your never roller cabinet over by the garage door? Also what type of brand if your labeler? See you in the next installment. Have a super week friend! Jim (Iowa)
Yes it will be stored next to the garage door for a very good reason. The label maker is a “Brother P-touch” Bet I’ve had it for 20 years. Always take the batteries out of it when I’m done.
Regarding battery removal, me too. Anything that takes a battery that could leak. I also put a piece of masking tape on whatever has the battery in it. I take a sharpie and write the date I put the batteries in. It’s good for a gray haired guy like me. I’m going to get a labeler from Amazon. Thanks for the heads up!
Mine's not disorganized, but it's not optimally organized. I look at it and can't decide what would be ideal. And while I don't mind spending the money the first time to get it right, I don't want to spend that money twice.
@@OneEyeCustoms I hear what you are saying as far as the direction of the channel. Humour me with a few candid shots of it in the next video!!! Cheers.
Another benefit is now when you cut off scrap pieces of new projects you have a place to put them instead of throwing them on the counter
But did you notice there was still some bar stock setting on the ledge behind the counter? Looks like some 1/2" size stuff.
Doug, your unloading skills are only surpassed by your ingenuity. Stay safe and healthy. Bill H from Cranberry Township
Thanks Doug. How I want to go down to my garage which is a workshop disaster and organize everything. Here I was sitting peacefully watching videos on a Sunday morning and now I'm going to work on it. My wife thanks you. LOL Great video.
For the longer pipes & flat bar material I would attach a small lip-shelf to the side of the toolbox and store them vertically. That way you still have them handy and they're too short to be stored with the long/full length stuff. Thanks for the vid this was great!!
I like it!
There's only one thing missing!! Your Logo!!!! Awesome job Doug!!!! ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!! Thanks!!
I have 2 of those in Orange. One for the garage and one for the Woodworking shop. If you ever get another one, take out the drawers, makes it a lot easier to unload :) Great content keep up the great work!
Thanks for the tip!
Heads up on casters. I’ve have built portable storage cabinets but used cheap casters. The fail with weight.
Thanks for the tip!
U hav some Awesome & VERY inspiring ideas for getting organized! I am struggling big time w/organization. It is very overwhelming for me. Thank u for this vid and for ur vid w/Hometown Acres where u showed us some of ur Awesome storage ideas. I luv how u organized ur tool boxes. U should make a quick short vid on how u determined the best location to put things in ur tool box and why? I look forward to more vids! Thank u!🍻🍻👍👍
I’ll see what I can do!!
Box for storing metal, 👍🏼 Organized shop,👍🏼👍🏼 Wearing safety glasses for putting labels on the drawers 🤔. 😂.
Well, they are safety glasses with readers. I wouldn’t be able to read the label maker without them on. And, haven’t you heard how dangerous label makers are…😜 serious eye injury is possible. 😆
Good to see you started your own TH-cam channel. Love your organization ideas.
From a fellow monocular - CyPops
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Looks great Doug! My question is where is the toolbox going to go??
Beside the garage door, I’ll show it in another video.
When I moved a box I pulled the drawers out and it was so much lighter.
I'm with you 100 % on getting rid of any cutoffs. Throwing it away is like throwing money in the trash.
I'm a Scrounger. Have been for 65 years and see no end to my scrounging in the foreseeable future. I've turned my wife into a Scrounger as well, whenever she goes for a walk Ann always brings home nuts bolts or washers that she picks up along the road. Sometimes she even brings back tools like a 50-psi diaphragm air compressor, "Is this any good dear?" "You betcha honey!" I have a lot of boxes and cans full to the brim of stuff that I continually "mine for gold" whenever I do a project. I would love to figure out how much money in time and materials I have saved over the years. Great video Doug amazing organizational skills, thumbs up.
Thank you!
I can relate. I’ve built from chicken coops, to fix, fabricate, brackets, for washing machines, truck alternators… for friends that don’t have spendable income out of free hardware, that I’ve managed to get for free.
I had a Porsche shop, where I restored vintage Porsche cars, I built custom kit cars. I’ve built off road race cars, I was a fabricator for Carol Shelby. You have to love what you do.
You "boughtened it"? Really, ugh.
First, the yellow looks awesome!
And, thank you for the yellows-are-cheaper info.
No problem!
Wth?.... Where are you going to store it now? Great video but my OCD is going nuts on where you will put the cart now lol!
Stay tuned, I’ll go over that in another video.
Love your organization and 6S videos! Visual management at it's best.
Coming from a machining background we had 3 storage methods. A steel rack that held from 20'+ to 10', then a vertical rack(half an A frame) that held 10' to 3' sticks, on the back of the vertical rack were shelves that held 3' to 1', then a flat shelf system similar to what you are doing with the tool box that held 1' and under. As the pieces got shorter we moved the location of that stick accordingly.
Good organization ideas! Tim in northern TN
This is something i need to do. I have a lot of scrap steel and no designated place for it. Major pain in the a$$
Sure has made it worth the money I spent on the tool box. Now I have a designated place for cut offs and an easy way to find small stuff when I need something!
Another good video but it's not complete without a "One Eye Custom" decal.
Working on it
I have 6 top & bottom boxes, the largest Snap On box has all Snap On tools in it, the others have Craftsman, Mac, Icon, and new & used hardware… otherwise I’d have 22 five gallon pails of stuff.
Funny about you telling about the yellow being cheaper... I went to HF today... It is the same price as the others and are all sold out here in town.. LOL.... Too funny.... I guess here in North Georgia, we like yellow....
i’m a retired Professinal Woodworker and we often have the same issues with CutOffs from our Exotic Lumbers , there are always tons of little projects I can find with all those CutOffs i do admit the discount on the Yellow Boxes is a nice deal but IMO that is a ButtvUglybColor i do think i personally would Respray one if i did take advantage of buying one at the reduced price FYI. i do own the Painting Equipment to do so and i have sprayed Automobiles etc oh BTW Harbor Freight does sellS ratch and Dented ToolBoxes they are listed on a Website simply called Harbor Freight Scratch and Dent , as far as Tool Boxes they do see to have decent discounted Icon brand Tool Boxes more than the US General lines for some reasons IDK Why ? those. you can have shipped to your address or store of your choice
OMG $100+ for 1-1/4”? New stock 1-1/4” 11ga 20’ long square tubing in my area is only $36.40 before tax.
Cut offs and drops are profit margin.
I'll check my harbor freight to see if they have any deals on unpopular colors. I bought a 72 in bright green in color. Did not get a $100 off sale.
Thanks for the great ideas.
Bob
So, When are you going to Doug modify the new yellow tool box? Just wondering! Lol
In the works!
Tip: Removing the drawers lightens the box up considerably.
The drone gave it all away. You got a ton of grass to mow! Now, I wished I had your problem with left-overs. If only I had your welding skills. Enjoyed your videos. Dave
Can you build a rack, for on top of your roll around box, that could hold the pieces too long for the drawers?
Sure could, great idea!
That was a great job, never thought of a tool box used for that.
Now you just need to find a place for the tool box 🙂
I got that all figured out.
( I bought another Craftsman tool box recently....I've started buying 20 and 30 year old boxes. I was wondering if I should use it or try to preserve its great condition. Your video made me realize I have some tools I actually want to pass along to others, they can go into a mint condition box. (Less use, and a space organizer idea)). tHanks for the video!
Right from the start I was betting there would be labels on the drawers. Awesome solution again , Uno Oc!
Easier solution is old file cabinets. Find along the road. Go to a Habitat for humanity ,for 25 dollars a box .God Bless.
Nice house and garage and shop you lucky bastard. Swiss Trac floor in the garage 👍
Do you wish you would have gone with a box with longer drawers (instead of the row of smaller drawers) so longer pieces would have fit?
Must of what I had was smaller stuff so it worked well.
I just put the stuff too long on the other steel rack
If you’re anything like me, that’ll be overflowing soon enough and you’ll have to buy a top box to start filling.
I sure hope not. Having the ability to see what I have now should make it easier to throw some stuff away more often.
dam i bought one of these a month ago. i would actually like the yellow . if i had known they were 80 bucks less i would have bought that instead of red
That thing is a tank!! Gott remember to open no more than two drawers at a time. SOOOOooo difficult to toss ‘scraps.’
I wanted to see you move that cart after it was full! hahahaha
I’m doing the same thing, keeping everything that’s steel, because it’s money 💴.
Just a idea label the cabinets!! Boom! Just a thought!
i was waiting for the label maker... that marks the end of a satisfying project... JOB WELL DONE
I frikin love the yellow. On line photos or the sticker on the box doesn't show how awesome that color is when you see it in person.
When you have a couple of weeks free, you can come visit me. 😂 Nice job!!
A man after my own heart!! I can’t throw anything away because I know I will use it
Another great video 😊
Next project: Use dental floss to remove the US General logo.
but where is the cart going??? :)
Doug's gonna build a bigger shop!!!
Next to the garage door. I will explain in a future video why and what I did with the box.
@@OneEyeCustoms Looking forward to it Doug, as I do all your videos!
I think this channel is overdue for a vehicle fleet review. Including ATV's, tractors, mud racing beaters etc. But Autumn has to be in that one for us to watch it.
I agree!
I love my US General toolbox. For my work, the drawers are perfect for my needs.
Harbor Freight also sells (un)loading ramps. 🙂
Drill a hole on the end of the flat ones and get a s-hook and hang them up somewhere.
Another great project. Your organization is inspiring!
Thank you
My back hurts watching you unload that toolbox 🤣😂
You know youve made it when the fake One Eye Custom accounts start commenting on every comment. Great work, keep it up!
Lol, and now I have to follow up on that SOB and report it on all the comments.
Really? That Telegram crap? I can't wait to see if they reply to my comment!! 🤞
@@PatrickWagz I’ve been reporting every one of them.
Doug, great job with that! I work in wood and have a similar compulsion, like you, around organization. I established, one, organized space for cut offs/shorts. I also have one bin for scrap. Then I established a firm rule for myself. When I finish a job, I put my cut offs in the shorts rack. If it won’t fit, something has to go into the scrap bin. When the scrap bin is full, it gets purged for kindling. In the end, I have controlled, limited space for shorts and scrap that doesn’t grow and I stay organized. There is a clip on it in my workshop tour video.
Another thought would be to replace the doors under that counter with drawers. Make them sturdy and use full extension drawer glides. 100 pound per drawer may do, or you could go with file cabinet glides that will surely do.
I REALLY enjoy you videos. Your skills, workflow and organization habits are great. But equally, I like how your creative, problem solving brain works!
Thank you!!
Can’t believe you have cabinets that are not organized
I had faith you could get it out alone until I saw you standing on that piece of cardboard. THAT was dangerous and you are very lucky it remained under your feet!
I have 4 of those toolboxes. I made a modification to 3 of them because they hold a LOT of tools. What I did was, got a piece of angle iron long enough to run completely front to back and wide enough to cover the rivnuts the casters bolt to but not tall enough to interfere with the bottom drawers. Something like 2"×4"×the length. I drilled out where the rivnuts are, used washers to equal the rivnut height then ran a nut onto every castor bolt. That makes a HUGE difference. Those 3 also have the top box. With several drawers fully open and loaded (a LOT of weight) it has never hinted at tipping forward. If you don’t beef up the suspension but you do fill it full with heavy stuff you're asking an awful lot of the bottom sheet metal. Good luck.
Thanks for the tip!
Yellow Tool ox is nice especially when you get it $100 cheaper Doug😊
It sure is
Can you build slide out trays for the bottom cabinets? I build 9 slide out trays in mine. My theory is “if you can’t readily see your inventory, you don’t have it. Like you I never throw away scraps 👍🏼
Yes, I could build slide outs. That would definitely help see what is in there!
I've moved many tool boxes. Take the drawers out! MUCH EASIER TO HANDLE!!
Good tip!
What is funny is I had the same issue , don't have Harbour freight in Barbados. So a used filing cabinet on casters wukking for now.Great content
Thank you! And thanks for watching.
I'd love to know what that weighs full
It can’t be much more than if it were full of tools I don’t believe.
But, but , but,
You didn't color code the drawers !
😮😮
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Awesome job on a good video
Lol,
Thanks
Great idea and execution, Doug! I am going to do something similar when I get around to building my welding cart. A thought for you concerning what to do with the pieces too long for the drawers - I thought about mounting 2 separate pieces of 4" pvc pipe 16-24 inches long (depending on how long my scrap is) to the side of the roll around cabinet. That way, I would have all the scrap together on one cart/toolbox. Thanks for the video!!
Floyd
Take the drawers out before unloading!
If it works for you that’s what counts.
This is a organization flex….. you animal
Great use of a toolbox, only thing better would have been to get a deal off " market place " and save a couple bucks. Maybe one for your wood scraps?
Absolutely!
You are a master at organization! I struggle with organization on a daily basis. My clutter and lack of organization create stress and makes my workflow very inefficient.
It’s a good time to start.
Stress destroys motivation and then makes projects no fun.
Doug, what label maker are you using in this video. Looking for better organization in my shop
It is the Brother P-Touch label maker.
I love me some good organization! Nifty use of a tool box for sure.
Hmm yellow is cheaper good to know!
Don't you have pallet forks on your tractor or skid loader or ramps? Good job Doug, stay safe.
I do, but not everyone has equipment so I wanted to show how it could be unloaded by hand.
Where did you buy your sheets of kaizen foam from again? I can’t find where you say it in another video
The foam factory.com I bought it on line.
I can't for the life of me figure out how you have all that flat surface and no junk piled on it😂😂👍👍
Lol, some days there is junk , but for the most part, I have a good/bad habit of putting things where they belong.
Dude. Yes. Thank you for posting this! My wife thinks I'm crazy about organizing, but it's not crazy. It's sane. A disorganized shop is what's crazy!
I did this same thing about a decade ago with my sheetmetal (aluminum, stainless, titanium, and copper), rubber, lexan, and HDPE stock. I didn't use HF cabinets, but it's the same idea.
I also got some small cube-shaped flex-a-top containers from LAContainer and sorted and labeled all of my hardware (rivets, screws, bolts, nuts, washers, nutplates, etc) and filled the drawers of another cabinet with them.
It took me six tool cabinets for everything, but it cleaned up the shop, opened up bench space, and has greatly reduced the amount of time I used to spend looking for stock and hardware.
My cabinets aren't on wheels. I arranged them side-side (3 boxes/side) and back-back, but left a space of maybe 12"-18" (I'd have to measure because I don't remember exactly right now) between the back-backs so they are basically two rows of three boxes, parallel, and back to back to each other. Then I covered the top of both cabinets and the space between with two layers of 3/4 inch plywood, and covered that with a sacrificial 1/4 inch fiberboard that gets replaced when it starts to look too worn and beat up. Since the top covers everything, it looks cohesive, like it's one piece of shop furniture.
I also made a long narrow cart on wheels that holds my large and long pieces of sheetmetal. That sheetmetal is stored vertically in the cart. That cart is stored in the open area between the backs of the tool cabinets. It's easy to pull out when I need more material than what I have in the drawers.
Anyhow, cool video! You are an excellent communicator and your camera shots are always perfect. I enjoyed watching this.
Awesome, and thank you!
Great job Doug.
I just bought the same 44" chest and top cabinet last week to get more organized. I was surprised how heavy they were.
I was as well!
These are much better made than people would think from the price. A friend has a lot of Snap-On cabinets. Really, at several times the price, they’re not that much better. And if you want something better, HF has more expensive choices that are still a lot less expensive, and strangely, better than Snap-On.
😮 dont people know, you can take the draws out and it weights less then 1/2 of what it did?
Sure do, but I managed to save time by doing it all at once. I’m kinda stubborn that way.
Good idea. I would have never thought to use a toolbox
Take the drawers out next time you have to lift it ask me how I know 🤦♂️
Lol
Nice ideas Doug now you can make some sliding shelves in that cabinetfor more usefull storage makes for more videos
How is that box holding up un comparison to your other boxes?
Doing good, but I’m not in it half as much as the tool boxes. I think it will last a long time!
Never realized you seem to quite the hunter by the looks of your wall.
I don’t do videos on it cuz not everyone is into that stuff.
I love your garage floor
Thank you,
I did a video a ways back on all the flooring options I have used or tried. Check it out if you have time.
I think your workshop organisation videos are some of the best iv found online, with those 4 lengths of flat bar too big for the tool box but too small for your steel rack , what about if you tacked the 4 pieces together then store on your big rack ?
Awesome otherwise
Love it! Was wondering too where you were going to put new cart. I personally love the yellow colour
It sits next to the garage door now. I will explain in a later video why and what I add to it to make it more practical.
Your scrap steel/aluminium storage prior to the toolbox is at least an order of magnitude better organised than mine. Mine just gets tossed into a spread out pile outside my shed door and I rat through it when I need a bit of steel.
Great job...but
now where does one put the tool cabinet?
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That was the same question I had before I bought it, but I think I have a solution that I can benefit from. Stay tuned
Never cease to inspire Doug. Get the job done no matter what you have or need.
You stunned me on this one. I never would of guessed. Great idea, great video, great job!
Thank you
Wow! You & I are two peas in a pod. First off I applaud your choice of Harbor Freight boxes. I worked 45 years in parts at Cummins. I saw every conceivable tool storage options you could imagine. I will say this truck boxes are way over priced. Our shop foreman wanted a P.O. For a bunch of Matco tool carts. They were over a grand a piece. I told him you need to go to HF and look at the 5 drawer tool carts. Then the were about 150.00 each. He went and came back with 6 of them for the shop. He laughed and said I got these 6 for the price of 1 Matco cart. I also like the fact that all HF boxes have drawers that are hemmed on the top, or rolled over. No sharp edges like my MAC box or a Craftsman. I have a HF side box I hung on the side of my tool cart. The large bottom drawer has two slides on each side. You’d think my MAC box would, nope. So needless to say I am totally sold on HF boxes. When I unloaded my HF box, I did the same thing you did. Since I’m a bit OCD, I took the other corner protectors, cut them to fit and slid one piece under the front & back edges between the wheels. I taped them up to hold them in place, then I ran my ratchet straps around them. I placed the straps right next to the wheels on both ends so there was no interference with the tail gate. I’m not sure if you solved the rest of your storage for you metal? I think HF has 15% off this weekend on tool boxes. You could snag a top box and put all you light weight tubing in it, key stock, marking tool or small cutoff tools for metal whether hack saws, rotor cut off wheels, supplies etc. the nice thin is it’s all mobile now, at least in that part of the shop. It looks like you’ve really freed up some room in that corner. Maybe you could do a video on what you might do with that space now. Will you store your never roller cabinet over by the garage door? Also what type of brand if your labeler? See you in the next installment. Have a super week friend! Jim (Iowa)
Yes it will be stored next to the garage door for a very good reason.
The label maker is a “Brother P-touch”
Bet I’ve had it for 20 years. Always take the batteries out of it when I’m done.
Regarding battery removal, me too. Anything that takes a battery that could leak. I also put a piece of masking tape on whatever has the battery in it. I take a sharpie and write the date I put the batteries in. It’s good for a gray haired guy like me. I’m going to get a labeler from Amazon. Thanks for the heads up!
@@OneEyeCustoms Please get the rechargeable Panasonic Enelop Ni-MH batteries and a charger. This will save you $$$ on batteries.
Looks Great !!
Thanks!
Where in your shop did you actually place the parts chest?
Beside the garage door. I will show it and why in a future video.
Thanks for the tip on getting yellow to save money.
You bet!
The lie I tell myself every week...yes I will organize the garage this week! Great video!
Mine's not disorganized, but it's not optimally organized. I look at it and can't decide what would be ideal. And while I don't mind spending the money the first time to get it right, I don't want to spend that money twice.
Just do it man! It's only yourself stopping you 👍🏻😎
@@espensund2878 I mean I start with good intentions and then....hahaha! You're right thought...
@@JCWren Define disorganized...I know in which pile most things are! :)
and Hi miss autumn
Liking the shop videos but I am a Jeep enthusiast as well and interested in the JK!!
Do you think I should do a Jeep video? I’m not sure it would do well on my channel…
@@OneEyeCustoms I hear what you are saying as far as the direction of the channel. Humour me with a few candid shots of it in the next video!!! Cheers.
When’s the next video dropping Doug!?
Tomorrow morning, hope you enjoy.