Good quality cantilever tool box ?

Pilatus

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Location
cotswolds
I need a good quality cantilever tool box,can anyone suggest a good make. Quality of build and durability more important than price ,as long as I am not just paying for the name ;)
 

Ley253

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Location
Bath
To be honest, and as someone who has been "on the spanners" for many years, I would not touch a cantilever box! They never shut first time, the tool you want is always hidden at the bottom, and some times they can self empty, if only one side is extended! The modern chests with shallow drawers are a great improvement.
 

Pilatus

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Location
cotswolds
To be honest, and as someone who has been "on the spanners" for many years, I would not touch a cantilever box! They never shut first time, the tool you want is always hidden at the bottom, and some times they can self empty, if only one side is extended! The modern chests with shallow drawers are a great improvement.

Thanks for that idea,please can you suggest a good make and I do not need to large a one.
 

Ley253

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Location
Bath
Snap On, comes to mind, but the price would be more than a small house. Its a bit late,but a trip around the shows and a few tool store visits may show something up.Strength is the main requirement, and so you need something made out of thick metal, not the tin that a cantilever box from vapormatic was made from.
I have a small Snap On box, which is at least thirty years old, and has been abused many times, including an attempt to drive a lorry over it! Box won, albeit with a few more dents! Its lost its front panel, but the drawers etc still work as well as ever.
 

clbarclay

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Location
Worcestershire
To be honest, and as someone who has been "on the spanners" for many years, I would not touch a cantilever box! They never shut first time, the tool you want is always hidden at the bottom, and some times they can self empty, if only one side is extended! The modern chests with shallow drawers are a great improvement.
Fair points but modern chests aren't without their disadvantages. Chests are great in the workshop or doorway of a van, but I still use a cantilever box for the mobile set of tools which get carried round the yard, chucked in any truck or at this moment fitted neatly in the combines tool locker.

No idea where to buy a good one now, the newest on here is over 20 years old. One observation though is get one with just one carrying handle, I ocasionally use one which has a pair of handles and if you forget to grab both together then it an tip the box and throw some of the contents out.

A plastic tool boxes or fabric cases would be the closer modern equiverlants of the cantilever box rather than draw chests.
 
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milkloss

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
I have a three draw Beta that wasn't stupid money but I would suggest a couple of plastic boxes as you can put spanners, pliers etc in one and screw drivers and electrical in another etc etc. Some are waterproof too which can be handy if you leave it in the back of the pickup. The Beta sits on the backseat with a belt round it!
 

madmatt

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I have a halfords own brand cantalever box thats beyond full that has now spent three seasons on the hedge cutter/mowing tractor and uts as good as the day i bought it!
 

Vizslaman

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Location
Hampshire
Always worth talking to your local Snap On Dealer, they often take boxes in P/X and they do not like to be carrying competitors boxes around so some good deals can be done.
That is how I got the big MAG box.
 

Paddington

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Location
Soggy Shropshire
Thought this thread might be about a plastic cantilever tool box. Got one years ago from some LR place and could do with another one, certainly tough enough for a 100kg adult to stand on and they reckoned they had driven a Defender over one and it survived. (The box not the Defender).
 

pettsy

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Location
Derbyshire
Use a facom (bt11 iirc) cantilever box for work, tend to wear the bottom away before the rest of the box fails.
 

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Paddington

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Soggy Shropshire
Some of these metal tool boxes can be quite heavy to start with, put 20kg + of tools in them and when you come to reach in to the vehicle to lift them out your feet come off the ground !
 

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