Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Equipment

Our office has a bunch of high-end iMacs as workstations and a MacPro as a server, but the equipment that gives me the most headaches is our motley collection of field tools. We have two banker's boxes full of carpenter's rulers, tape measures, flashlights, awls, cameras, work gloves, and so on. On any given day I'll need some or all of those and the question comes up: how the hell do you carry it? Most briefcases and shoulder bags work very badly with irregularly-shaped objects and I've tried a bunch.

This month's experiment, a "contractor's briefcase." Less than $30 and nylon, so how bad could it be? This picture shows the "office side" of the bag; the "equipment side" has bigger pockets.

11 comments:

Smut Clyde said...

DO you not get a utility belt? Another illusion shattered.

M. Bouffant said...

The utility belt causes plumber's crack. (Unless of course N_B wears his undies on the outside.)

N__B said...

I wanted to wear small pouches over every inch of my body as if I were a Rob Liefeld character, but my partner objected.

Smut Clyde said...

Tell her that they are extra muscles from those designer steroids you're taking.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

where would one obtain one of these?

AFAF.

N__B said...

Got mine thru the innertubes from the Lewis Equipment Co in Michigan. It's a "Bucket Boss Contractor's Briefcase" model 6005.

I'll say this for Lewis: one-day delivery on standard shipping. It came this morning.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

It came this morning.

TOTALLY TMI.

N__B said...

TOTALLY TMI.

I've never been inside a nuclear power plant.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Where's the Goddamn Batman when you need him?

Rusty Shackleford said...

If we repeal that damn 13th Amendment you could buy a real solution to this problem.

Rusty Shackleford said...

I was just kidding.