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Product Name: | DEWALT DG5543 16 in. 33 Pocket Tool Bag, Black |
Manufacturer: | Dewalt |
Model Number: | DG5543 |
Product SKU: | B001P30BO6 |
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-A bag or box with upright hand tool storage is essential for efficient punchlist work and mobility.
-A rolling kit does not work well in scrub-in environments, like someone's home that they are currently living in, because the wheels drag the outside in.
-If you traverse long distances on foot, a basic rolling system is necessary. If you are getting a little older or expect to some day, your body will thank you.
-Most of the stackable rolling systems are too wide to comfortably roll through residential doorways without some care, and unstacking them takes up quite a bit of footprint.
-If you are regularly working out of more than 3 bags, you should consider a rolling bag (and pouch).
-If it regularly takes you more than 3 trips to your vehicle to load up, you should consider a stacking system.
I have bags and various cases. I've tried and still own components in most of the systems - some packout, tough system, rigid, and tstak, as well as pelican, nanuk, plano, veto, toughbuilt, milkcrates, 'boat n totes', clc, husky, buckets, etc. I have lots of Dewalt organizers: https://www.homedepot.c
At base, I have a series of shelves for dedicated kits in bags and boxes- drywall tools, paint tools, router and accessories, metalworking, sockets and installation tools, etc. The humble shelf is the unifying organizer for my system, and it's non-denominational.
For house-calls, I use a clean, medium-sized custom tote bag with 40 pockets I made myself. It's not very different than this Dewalt bag, except that the classic straight-zipper never worked for me because it deforms the bag as it closes. This toughbuilt would have solved that problem for me, if it had existed at the time I designed my own: https://www.lowes.com/pd/TOUGHBUI...1003
For larger house calls or solo expo work, I recently added a Toughbuilt rolling tool bag which is very easy to maneuver. I can easily work out of it and it has enough additional space to add in items per job, such as my entire rotary hammer case and a couple socket sets:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/TOUGHBUI...1003
They make these in 14" and 22" as well.
Here's where rolling bags really come in for me: I work back of house at a lot of trade-expos which requires small and medium-sized tools of a wide array for rapid assembly and breakdown of display booths of any design-- lots of assembly and carpentry, sometimes with metal fab, electrical or plumbing tasks. I move from place to place, frequently with lots of other contractor teams moving about, and lots of them working within the same space, then I have to move to another location within the building and accomplish a different task, dozens of times. I regularly walk 10 miles in a day with tools and do lots of small tasks and a few more involved ones.
Team jobs is where stackable cases become crucial: we use a series of packout and ridgid stacks for bringing team equipment and gear to site (this travels in a van and lives back of house). This makes it so that we are managing 3-4 rolling towers rather than 30-50 bags, which would be chaotic. We use plastic rolling service carts when multiple breakout kits are required for one team on the floor. This gives them the ability to layout some of their tools while keeping everything mobile.
And at home, I use this: https://www.lowes.com/pd/TOUGHBUI...5005
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Idk what CCC you're looking at but mine shows lowest it's been was $23.21…
With an average price of $34.55
With an average price of $34.55
I'm looking at the past year only, that's pretty much the best we can hope for.
I like the solid boxes (I went with the Dewalt Toughsystem) but did recently buy the large toughsystem bag which links to my boxes.
Both have their purpose but I use the large bag as my main unit because of all the variety of stuff I can put in it.
The metal around the opening of the bag has punched through at the blunt end, but the thing is holding up well. I've used it heavily off and on over that time period. The usual complaints about tool-bags I have is the strap not holding up or tearing out on the bag end - none of that here. Mine is the one that came with the two zipper pouches inside, I think they're being stingy on that these days, but those were super handy as well.
Before I called this thing I actually called my shop (it was a 24x7 shop so someone was going to answer the phone) and had them measure the lockers so I would be sure it would fit....
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We have the same story and thoughts. I decided the bag system is not broke so why fix it I think they maybe good if you on a job site and tools may walk off as you can lock the boxes, and have a ton of stuff so only need to make one trip as you can put them on dolly?
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I'm in the exact same boat. I have cheap Plano boxes for plumbing and electrical tools but the rest of my tools live in different places in my workshop. When I have to do work at one of my rentals I pack up a couple of rubbermaid bins with what I need. They are stackable, ready to carry and tough enough.
I bought a whole tough system 2.0 setup but they were heavy as hell and didn't really add any utility for me. I don't need such rugged boxes and don't want to keep all my tools in them. I prefer to have my tools on the wall where I can grab them easily.
I ended up selling the tough system on FB marketplace. My bin system is cheap, flexible, and practical for my needs.
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Same situation - I have a few rentals and do extensive re-hab on houses we buy to make into rentals.
In the past I had one "larger" solid side toolbox - think like an old Craftsman metal one that plumbers would carry - it just got too heavy.
CAVEAT - I NEVER leave tools at the rehab site and, of course, I never leave them in a rented property. In fact, I try my best not to leave them in my truck over night even though I live
in an okay neighbor hood.
I then went to a smaller pouch bag (very much like this) and I store my "main" grab and go tools for when I run out to do a service call at a rental place - hammers, pliers, screwdrivers, levels
etc in this bag.
I have a separate bag for just my drill and driver (and a couple batteries and charger) with the drill bits and screw bits etc. This bag is a bit smaller than the bag on this post.
I also have ANOTHER separate soft bag for the other power tools (recip saw, oscillation tool, circular saw, router etc). I grab this one when I think I will need one of those tools.
Finally, I also have some other soft-side bags with specialty items, like electrical (for testers, heavy duty strippers, wire nuts etc) and plumbing (with PEX crimpers and unions, etc) - these go
with me on special trips when I think I will need them
I do also have a set of stackable Ridgid hard-side boxes. I have had them for over two years and I just can't seem to find anything to put in them. My mind is telling me that since
I load and unload whatever tools I am using each day (and some days only take the "general" bag, they would just be too bulky and heavy to move around in the stackable boxes.
Even if I take a chop saw or something large to the rehab house, I always bring it home and I always put it away every day.
The only way I think I would use the stackable hard-side boxes would be if I were going to rehab a single UNIT in a multi-unit location (like an apartment or 4-plex) and
I could get ahold of a person living in another unit to watch the stuff overnight, but I'd still be hesitant at that.
SO, end result - bags like this one get a lot of work in my system. I use about 5 or six of them.
And, for anyone following along this far, I will add that these bags are not perfect. Once you start putting stuff in the pouches, they get pretty tight against the out pouches and you can't really load them all up like you think you can. Also, if you put screwdrivers in the outer pouches, they almost always fall out when you're not looking and then you've lost them.