Guys, could you recommend a good wheeled tool case? Right now i have a back pack type and i have been having back problems.Getting to old to carry this stuff. I am looking for a hard case,small and at around $200.00.What website? My company will not pay for it. What are yall using?

Your kidding, your company won't even pony up some $$ for a tool case? So you want a special tool case, at least they should pay for part of it. As an owner, if one of my valued techs came to me telling me that he would like a new case cause his case looked bad, or he was having back pain, I would surely work something out to get him a new rolling case. It just makes sense, no-one can do thier best work with an back-ache.

Anyway, check-out this website:
www.everytoolcase.com

And best of luck

My personal choice is a used folding luggage cart, $2 at a yard sale. It can carry my hard side case, soft side case, laptop AND some parts.

I use a folding cart too. I haven't seen a wheeled case with big enough wheels. The cart I use folds up and will fit into a 24 gal ActionPacker tub with the parts for my out of town trips. I have another case that won't take the cart but fits perfectly through the side cargo hatch of a Cessna 185 on floats. In days gone by we would load the plane with tools, parts and techs and spend the day. Instead of sending one tech for three days we sent three techs for one day. Those days are long gone now with the death of logging in SE Alaska and the one-room schools with six or eight kids with one teacher and a copier running on a generator. A more recent adventure regarding carts involved a boat, one 49cc scooter, two techs and a fold up cart full of parts and tools. After making an eighty mile run in the boat we unloaded the scooter and stuff, bungeed the cart to the back with the tools and the two of us took off on a run through the streets of Wrangell, Alaska to work on a HP plotter for the Forest Service. On the way back, the cart flipped over and we dragged it a short distance before we could get safely stopped. The next year we did it again but I had my own scooter. Even flipped the cart again. I wish I had a picture.

You could try Crawford Tools at crawfordtools.com. I have found them to be very friendly and the prices a little lower than most places.

Sounds Like Skookumchuck could use one of those little planes that you build in your garage. The trips sound fun, I would probably have to bring a fishing pole along.

Just got this one. I searched around a lot, this seemed like the best deal.

http://www.alltimetools.com/p-...ase-with-wheels.aspx

Thanks, has been. It looks good.

Kit planes aren't much use here. Most of the planes we fly in here are from the mid-fifties on floats and not much more than a compass to navigate with. On a couple of boat trips about 120 miles north of here we went to to North America's southernmost tidewater glacier. The guy we had with us was either very brave or very stupid. He jumped on to a small iceberg trying to hack off enough glacier ice to supply several days of cold refreshing beverages. Icebergs are inherently unstable and it could have rolled over with him on it at any moment. We later found it was better to go a lot closer to the glacier and just pick up small chunks with a salmon net. The glacier ice lasts much longer in beverages. At least one of the guys on this site has had a little taste of copier-repair-by-boat on the way to catch halibut here. He got a pretty nice one, too. Sorry to get off the subject of wheeled tool kits.

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Just out of curiosity I googled Ketchikan. Boy you're really Alaskian by name only, you do most of your business in Canada?

No, everything is by barge, plane or state run ferry from the Seattle area. The closest road link is Prince Rupert, British Columbia, about six hours on the ferry.

I to must travel by boat occasionally but I am in south Florida usually go to small islands for hotels or by air boat in the glades to the forestry service's firetowers ..