Re: Tool Fairies

Posted by Port-Na-Storm on
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Timmo I wish I was your tool salesman!

I saw a video once on lean management where guys working at Boeing building wings were all told to take their great big red Snap-on toolboxes home. They were replaced by shadow boards with exactly the right tools required to do each job, which could then be checked quickly at the end of the job, I'm now a believer if not a follower.

I have one box for plumbing and general masonry work, one box for vehicle repairs, one general DIY tool box, and my woodwork tools are to the untrained eye scattered round the work-bench. Of course each has its home, they just wander around a bit sometimes when i'm not looking.

True story; An acquaintance does a lot of practical charity work and he was setting up a workshop at a nearby asylum detention centre, to give the inmates something to do.  The guards noticed that a set of wire cutters were missing from the shadow boards and promptly went into shut down mode. The place was turned upside down and everyone searched. It was only then they thought to phone him at home where he found the offending nippers in his overall pocket.

Cheers Graham