YTONET Tool Bags

A tool bag is judged by its base and its pockets, and both are on the card. The base is rigid and sits inside a wrap of 1680D Oxford cloth, the heaviest weave in anything we make, so the bag stands open on gravel with its mouth held wide by a steel frame and does not fold in on the tools. The pockets number forty-six on both tool bags, inside and out, sized for drivers, pliers, a tape and a meter, with the long ones outside where a hand finds them without looking. The two bags differ by two inches of length and about eight litres of room, and the 18-inch bag is the one for a set of wrenches as well as the hand tools.

The tool backpack puts the same cloth on a back. It opens flat like a suitcase, with tool pockets on both inside faces, and it carries a padded laptop sleeve at the back for the tablet or the laptop a service call now needs, so the parts and the paperwork travel together. A rigid base keeps it upright on a van floor. None of the three is a promise about a weight: a bag with forty-six pockets takes more than a safe load for one back, and the NIOSH lifting equation, which we link on this page, is the public body of advice on where that limit sits.