A friend was telling an apprentice about my awesome, custom, assemblage sculpturesque toolbox.
Story;
My first benchtop toolbox was the brown mortar shell box. Didn’t need much at the time and it was CHEAP!
Next came the black rollaway. Again, a bargain. Such a bargain that two coworkers decided to get the same box. So I put a call out to my friends saying, “I need stickers!” That way I could still easily spot my box from across the plant.
An excellent little cart was getting scrapped. It had two drawers. I made it into my ‘maintenance cart’ and dedicated my rollaway as a ‘machining box’.
A department brought a similar cart to me and wanted the three drawers removed from it. Very nice drawers, I thought. So I welded them below the existing drawers on the ‘maintenance cart’.
With the extra weight of three more drawers of tools, the cart needed a handlebar to aid steering. A coworker gave me a set of buckhorns and I machined a mounting block.
Then several things happened at once. The wheels for the cart and my machining box sucked. I needed new. I also wanted to add a work surface and vice. With all this, I decided why not make the whole thing into one big work station.
Thus was born the Freight Train, a fully customized work of functional art.
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