If you have any suggestions on better organizational techniques, I'd love to hear them!
I suggested I'd make a few photos but after others on here, I'm in awe. About all I can say in my own defense is that I only have 4 big tool cabinets and there is no room for everything to be well organized. With that, appology, here are a few examples:
I try to keep like things together in same tool drawer. But even that is difficult. For one thing I have several cases of larger sockets that won't even go in a regular drawer. I'm a farmer so I have some huge sockets - all the way up to 4-1/2".
Then there is 4ft Johnson Bars, 3ft pipe wrenches, wrecking bars, etc etc.
The main problem though is that I just don't have enough cabinet drawers for everything. I'd need at least 3x as many more cabinets as I have! 16 might make it. Hence what you see in the photos above.
Yes, some things like wrenches could be stacked on edge to fit more in the drawer. But the truth is that they all fit anyway. About all I do is keep the size ranges in one general place - typically small on the right and biggest on the left with medium sizes in the middle.
Of course, some drawers are actually fairly well organized.
Lastly, I don't like to throw away tools. I lose enough tools lending them out. My wife says I could give away half what I have and prolly never know the difference. I dunno about that! I also have a lot of old favorites. That's 60 years of tools in those drawers.
The best way to describe my tool storage practices is.... Organized Chaos. It works just fine with my chaotic mind.
