Aprons, work belts.....?

[TimmS]

What is everyone's solution to keeping tools handy and being able to crawl in bilges and fit between frames at the same time?

[mmd]

Canvas toolbag.

[paladin]

Always wear an apron when baking bread....at least when the cleaning ladies/nurse/ etc are in the house...keeps the flour off my underwear.....

[peter radclyffe]

What is everyone's solution to keeping tools handy and being able to crawl in bilges and fit between frames at the same time?
trug, tray, canvas or plastic bucket, tied to beam or frame, hunters waistcoat pockets

[michigangeorge]

I love my trusty canvas tool bag with pockets all around. It is just large enough to carry more tools than I think I may actually need but some extras just in case. Nothing worse for old bones than having to get up from some terrible position in the bilge, climb over the side and down a ladder just to grab some vise grips,etc.

[Peerie Maa]

Leather apron at the bench or metalworking, small fish box with rope handles on the boat.

[Jim Ledger]

Tape and pencil on bedside table.

Shallow, open tool tray for tools.

Tool belts are for house carpenters.

[kc8pql]

Canvas toolbag.
Ditto

[Bill R]

Canvas tool bag for boats/trim carpentry on site. Keep a small canvas nail & tool apron in the bag.

Shop- tape & pencil behind the ear.

Leather tool belt w/ pouches for bigger jobs.

Electric, plumbing, HVAC, rigging each have their own bags, buckets etc.

[bob winter]

Depends. Working in the shop pencil behind the ear and tape on belt works for me. Working outside at the cottage or at home I usually either wear tool belt or just lug things around in a pail.

[rbgarr]

In The Bilge?

A studded, black leather tool belt with a Bible in one pocket, the Communist Manifesto in another, a red pencil between the teeth, a trowel... and nothing else. Not a stitch of clothing.

Why do you ask? ;D

[TimmS]

In The Bilge?

A studded, black leather tool belt with a Bible in one pocket, the Communist Manifesto in another, a red pencil between the teeth, a trowel... and nothing else. Not a stitch of clothing.

Why do you ask? ;D

Is this the bilge of a boat, or The bilge? we are talking about?

This is precisely why I did not phrase the question "what do you wear in the shop" :D

[rbgarr]

Both ;)

[huisjen]

I carry a leatherman, an adjustable wrench, a folding utility knife, a tape measure, grease (lip balm), and a writing implement in my pockets as a matter of course. Everything else is scattered hither and yon. Unless I'm doing a very specific task I usually avoid wearing my tool belt. I prefer to carry nails or screws in a half height #10 can. I keep my nail and screw stocks in such cans on the shelves.

Dan

[JPhoenix]

Utilikilt.........

http://www.utilikilts.com/?page_id=30

[TimmS]

Utilikilt.........

http://www.utilikilts.com/?page_id=30


Interesting....


did you see this one?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1377/565558332_0aeab60ef3.jpg

[Capt Nat]

...any horizontal surface...all my tools are at hand...


...eventually!

[theskip]

I use a multipocketed apron with a tie-on toolbelttied on in the back. No bag just out of reach no tools left on the bench or in the tool box. And for some reason I have to keep my pencil in the knife pocket on my pants now 'cause it wont stay behind my ear anymore. Maybe I just need to get a bigger pencil?

[Woxbox]

Knife on a lanyard so I cant lose that, everything else just scattered wherever it lands.

[Ian McColgin]

I use bags for:

"The usual tools" - some wrenches and screwdrivers and pliars and a couple of hammers and stuff that I always seem to grab;

The wood cutting kit - saws, planes and chisels; and

A rigging kit of various fids and sewing gear.

I use rubber-made kit boxes for the mechanic's kit, an electrician's kit, and a couple of semi-organized parts boxes.

I have a spare bag to make up a single kit for jobs where it's a pain to bring one or more heavy bags, like going aloft.

When I worked in a sail loft I tried to do like my boss and wear a tool apron but for me laying the tools on the bench made more sense.

Of course for sailing I wear my Leatherman and Myerchin. And always I wear my pocket knife (like a swiss army knife but all SS).

[David G]

I wear a canvas apron in the shop. The space is 2500+ sq. ft. - with a mezzanine at each end. If I started setting things down wherever, I'd spend all my day walking around looking for tools, and none working. I do the bulk of my work in the shop, but when I need to go to someone's boat for a project, I have a motley collection of canvas bags, milk crates and plastic tool boxes that I use to assemble kits appropriate to the project.

I like the aprons with lots of nooks and crannies. I also have come to prefer the type of straps that criss-cross at the back - as opposed to simply looping around your neck. If you're sporting a t-shirt and a sunburn, the latter can chafe badly in addition to hanging all the weight on the back of your neck. I prefer the weight on my broad, manly shoulders. I have yet to find an apron that combines all the features I like, but am liking the one I got recently from our host:

http://www.woodenboatstore.com/images/apron.jpg


"Horses for courses"

[Paul Girouard]

I prefer the weight on my broad, manly shoulders. I have yet to find an apron that combines all the features I like, but am liking the one I got recently from our host:

http://www.woodenboatstore.com/images/apron.jpg




You seem to have misplaced your head and legs along with those tools :D

[peter radclyffe]

You seem to have misplaced your head and legs along with those tools :D
all armless banter

[Bob Cleek]

http://www.bendavis.com/cat_photos/Overall_nat_lrg.jpg

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp283/jhahn1234/bendavis.gif

http://www.bendavis.com/catalog_overalls.htm

Ben Davis carpenter's overalls. Tons of pockets. Built in nail pouches. Bulletproof (almost) denim canvas. Double quilted reinforced knees. Riveted seams. Loose fitting so movement is unrestricted. Several colors, but white is the coolest in the sun, particularly if you go "commando" with nothing underneath. Dirt cheap, about $40.

[Mrleft8]

Tape and pencil on bedside table.

. Keeping a daily log or something Jim? :D ;)

[ishmael]

Um, couple of guys who came to work on a contract I was working as a pup had the bright idea of suspenders. A simple belt, from one who's worn one through many a weary day, is a pain. Put a set of suspenders on it and Bob's your uncle. Whomever Bob is.