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Dear lads
I have a friend that runs a tractor repair shop and his best worker falled of at ladder at his house last weekend. He will live but will not be back to work till this fall or winter. So I am going to work for my friend but because I run my own shop and farm I ask for only 600am to noon. And this is the problem All of my tools are in one big tool chest I would have to load it on and off every day and have to drive my truck then not my car and it is 30 min one way what would you do hate for my tools to get wet in the rain on bad days hard to strap to
Sorry for ThE long post I just do not know what to do
 
This my not be savy. Can you use the other hands tools? Yes I know there not your tools, wont feel rite in your hands and itll kill ya to lose one of them.
 
I worked out of a pick up for years and yea i have lots of tools i learned what i needed for tools and what i did not need to keep in the truck . And what i had in my road service box i could carry with two hands and take most tractors that i worked on all the way down to the running gears of a katty did and back together again.ya don't need a whoopen big box to fix farm equipment In the truck i kept a 3/4 drive set and the big wrenches the tote box had sockets to 1 1/2 and wrenches to 1 1/2 . I covered a large area from I70 to the south I77 to the west I79 to the east and I 90 to the north. A lot of long days and short nights and plum wore out three trucks.
 
Tractor vet do you run a pickup or a truck with a service body
I have a lot of air tools, torque wrenches, gear pullers and a lot lot more in my box and I would hate to not be able to do a job because I do not have a tool And I know you will make fun of me but I looked at the other guys tools and they are all oily and hammered on and cheap stuff so I could not work with that lol my tools are always wiped down after a job I know it is silly
 
Would you get more done both there and at home if you worked longer days but fewer of them in a week? Seems you will be driving a lot and loading/unloading a lot. If you are looking at 30 hour week of 2/3 days, I think 3 days of 8-9 hours each would net you more useful time both there and at home? Those shorter days never seem to get a job done....

--->Paul
 
Bring a small box with the basic wrenches and use his special tools. Most of the work we do can be done with the tools out of a plain old suitcase tool box. Jim
 
I don't know how many tools you need to take but one of these jobsite steel boxes will keep water out pretty good and you can lock it.
 
one thing id condsider is a utility body wither for your truck or put it on a pickup bed trailer, so you can have all your tools with you at both places, i drag mine to work when i have to work on company equipment, the company has a tool truck, its a 5 ton truck with a utility body, but, the other hands working there are not mechanics, when they use the tools, if they put them back at all, they dont put them on the truck in the correct compartment, the closest to them will do, nothing worse or more time consuming than having to search thru a whole 20 foot truck body for every tool,wrench, or socket, and it might not even be there at all, i put all mine on one of my trailers, and mine are mine! much better
 
(quoted from post at 20:01:31 04/17/12) Dear lads
I have a friend that runs a tractor repair shop and his best worker falled of at ladder at his house last weekend. He will live but will not be back to work till this fall or winter. So I am going to work for my friend but because I run my own shop and farm I ask for only 600am to noon. And this is the problem All of my tools are in one big tool chest I would have to load it on and off every day and have to drive my truck then not my car and it is 30 min one way what would you do hate for my tools to get wet in the rain on bad days hard to strap to
Sorry for ThE long post I just do not know what to do
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why not pick up a used enclosed trailer, when you are done helping your friend sell the trailer and maybe turn a profit on it. chuck
 
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