Re: Pouch, Bag or Bucket
Most of you guys would not hire me, I am a self confessed walker. I walk all day, all over, i carry as little as possible into a job, cause at the end of the day, you have to carry all that stuff back out, and when you are trying to get out of there...
Loading in and loading out of a job can take up an hour or more of your day.
That being said , i use several of the bucket boss drawstring bags. My main bag has one main compartment and several smaller pockets round the sides, it has my 9's, a pair of strip diags (the ones with pre drilled holes to strip 12 and 14), a straight screwdriver and either a phillips or one or two ratcheting screwdrives that except multiple tips and i keep a square tip for circuit breakers and panel screws and a allen tip cause i am currently working on a fire alarm, a pair of the bolt cutting 12-2, 14-2 NM-B strippers and a fluke T-5. The sides also have ground screws, ground crimps, 8-32 and 6-32's and plastic nm-b connectors. The middle big pocket is full of a variety of wire nut's and usually some variety of connector.
With this set up I can do most service calls, I can pull wire and make up boxes, I can hang fixtures....
I have a sectional drawstring bag that has machine screws from size #8 to size #14 and assoociated plastic anchors and blue screws
Another sectional has 10-32, 10-24, 8-32, 6-32, 1/4's and associated nuts and washers, for those days when just have to turn into a machine shop and make something fit or work or stick together or whatever.
Another sectional has, pipe clamps, setscrew connectors, compression connectors
So I grab my main pouch and then depending on what i am running that day i grab another....
My nut drivers are in one zipper pouch
T handle allen wrenches are in another
My uni-bits and other associated
small drill parts like the allen key and that bar that you use to take the head off a right angle drill are in another
My telephone and cable install tools another
Sharpies are sprinkled through out these bags...
I've never been able to get my bat drill to balence right in any of the carriers that i have bought for it, but I am really skinny
which is why i cant do a belt pouch, all it does is pull my pants down and I already have electrcians crack,
I walk alot because, well a lot of what we do as a company is fix other people's screw-ups and walking time is think time. It's when i figure out how the heck they did what they did, or how the heck I am going to do what I am going to.
When I am on a job that i will be at the same place for several days consectuively, I have a small gang box that I will set on the job and dump the tools that I am using into when I go to lunch or home.
