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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Branson on October 30, 2011, 06:14:39 PM

Title: Park Manufacturing tool box
Post by: Branson on October 30, 2011, 06:14:39 PM

Pictures will follow tomorrow, but I thought I'd give a chance to think about Park Manufacturing tool boxes.  Can't find much on them, especially since Park is the name of a major bicycle tool firm these days.  This weekend, I picked up a Park Manufacturing model 84449 tool box.  It's long enough to carry a saw, and has brackets inside to hold a level.  I'd like to know more about it and the company.  One site I checked out suggested that PM made tool boxes for Sears Craftsman.

Title: Re: Park Manufacturing tool box
Post by: eddie hudson on October 31, 2011, 06:50:10 AM

Is that the same Park Manufacturing from Orchard Park NY?

Title: Re: Park Manufacturing tool box
Post by: Branson on October 31, 2011, 07:57:31 AM

Quote from: eddie hudson on October 31, 2011, 06:50:10 AM

Is that the same Park Manufacturing from Orchard Park NY?

Nope.  It's Park Mfg. Co. Grant Park, Ill.

Title: Re: Park Manufacturing tool box
Post by: Craig on September 20, 2013, 06:07:54 PM

  I just got one of these tool boxes too and am curious as to what it was for. I plan to use it as a chainsaw toolbox so if anyone has info as to it's original purpose please let us know.

Title: Re: Park Manufacturing tool box
Post by: Ken W. on September 20, 2013, 08:31:24 PM

I have 3 Park tool boxes. 2 have 2 drawers and 1 has a tray. I find these very well built boxes.

Title: Re: Park Manufacturing tool box
Post by: Bill Houghton on September 20, 2013, 10:40:52 PM

Quote from: Craig on September 20, 2013, 06:07:54 PM

  I just got one of these tool boxes too and am curious as to what it was for. I plan to use it as a chainsaw toolbox so if anyone has info as to it's original purpose please let us know.

If you mean the long box with the saw and level holders, it's a carpenter's jobsite box, from the days when a good carpenter needed at least two handsaws, one crosscut, one rip.

Title: Re: Park Manufacturing tool box
Post by: rusty on September 21, 2013, 11:35:42 AM

>Is that the same Park Manufacturing from Orchard Park NY?
Park Metalware, not manufacturing (Xcelite > 1952)

Title: Re: Park Manufacturing tool box
Post by: Ken W. on September 21, 2013, 01:42:54 PM

Nope.Different Park.