NYLON BACKPACK TOOL CASE C/W 11 PCS

NYLON BACKPACK TOOL CASE C/W 11 PCS

Watching well-organized pros or do-it-yourselfers work in harmony with their tool belts is a study in skill, efficiency and “poetic glide.” Their tasks speed along as they intuitively reach into a pouch and grab the exact tool or fastener needed for the task. Without taking their eyes off their work, they send the tool to its pocket and the next one effortlessly appears in hand. The “dominant hand”—controlling the hammer, knife and pencil—orchestrates the operation, while the “helper hand” responds by bringing the appropriate fastener or accessory tool instantly into play. Whether you work on your house once a week or once a month, this is a logical rhythm you can learn. We’ll show you the layout plan of a tool belt and the hand tools many pros carry, and explain why you should copy them.

I used to work alongside many homeowners who hated to wear tool belts. They hated the weight and resented having poorly stowed tools snag on ladders and scaffolding. The trade-off was constant interruptions to fetch what they needed from the other side of a room, rather than have the hand tools and fasteners they needed right there with them.

Habitually, these tool belt haters would:

• Make umpteen unnecessary trips from the roof to the ground hauling tools.
• Stuff the fasteners they needed in their pants and shirt pockets.
• Hand-carry their small tools.
• Waste lots of time looking for tools and fasteners they’d placed “somewhere.”

Compared with the tool belt masters, tool belt haters invariably seem crabby and struggle with their work. Speed, performance and safety all improve with the right tool belt, loaded the right way.

Buy a tool belt With lots of pockets for carrying various fasteners and the hand tools shown. The web belt on this model fastens in the back, with the tape measure in front, available for either hand. This is a setup for a right-hand belt, meaning the tools favored by the dominant hand (the one you hammer and write with) are set up on the right-hand side of the tool belt.