How are you Organizing Your Festool and Systainers?

[onocoffee]

My workbench mods have been progressing and I've built part of the sys storage below the bench. For the past year, I've typically kept the Domino, tenon systainer, 150 abrasives systainer and 150/3 systainer under the bench - but most recently this space has been occupied by all of the different abrasive systainers. As I move forward I was wondering how you organize things? Do you keep your abrasive systainer with the respective sanders? Stack the abrasives together? Stack the tools together? How do you group your systainers?

Thanks!

 

[bobtskutter]

They're all piled up in the corner of the garage. The one I need is always at the bottom of the pile

Bob

 

[cdbugler]

Same as Bob, but mine is a small wood shop instead of garage. Two big stacks with the necessary tool always buried.

 

[jeffinsgf]

Mine get shuffled from time to time...mostly when something gets added. My general theme is Dominos with the Domino, sandpaper with the sander, routers with the bits, etc. That blew up a couple months ago when I added some stuff and the routers and track saw got shuffled from the wall-mounted cabinet behind my main bench to the table saw outfeed table/bench. I'm pretty happy with the current set up, because the outfeed table has 14" full extension slides, which means I can take the tool out of the Systainer without taking it off its drawer/shelf. I don't have the cabinet width to do that in my wall-mount, so the sanders and Domino have to come out and go on top of the counter when they're needed. But the heavier tools now get extracted without the Systainer taking up horizontal space.

 

[Cheese]

I've arranged my Systainers like Jeff...the tool in a Systainer along with a Systainer of consumables.

 

[jeffinsgf]

Hard to believe I've had this on the wall for 6 years. Time flies like a bird. Fruit flies like a banana.

 

[Jim_in_PA]

Some photos below. The unit near the person-door is now double height

 

[Michael Kellough]

“The unit near the person-door is now double height”

That’s the trouble with Festool stacks, they keep growing taller, and then they multiply. I have a small herd.

 

[Jim_in_PA]

True, Dat, @Michael Kellough

Mine may grow a little more as I have a bunch of older, "original" Systainers that I use for miscellaneous storage. I've only got room for like two more in existing. But it makes for a nice shop project.

 

[ReneS]

Apologies. I now keep only a few tools in systainers. The rest are in the drawers that are in the cabinets I built for my garage shop. My dominos are in systainers, as is my track saw. The track saw systainer sits on the floor under my MFT. The domino systainers sit under my assembly table/work bench. A bunch of empty systainers are in the basement in a stack.

Every time I open a drawer to pull out a sander or some dominos or some LR32 stuff, I think, yeah, this is good. So easy. So convenient.

I do have a stack in a corner with my jig saws and MFK700. They get infrequent use, so shuffling through them is not a big deal.

 

[Vondawg]

jim_in_pa and jefinsgf really nice to see the organized shops… nice job! Where are the washer/dryer, freezer, golf clubs, dog beds

 

[onocoffee]

I've arranged my Systainers like Jeff...the tool in a Systainer along with a Systainer of consumables.

Are these custom printed labels? Stickers? Or something else?

 

[Cheese]

jim_in_pa and jefinsgf really nice to see the organized shops… nice job! Where are the washer/dryer, freezer, golf clubs, dog beds

And don’t forget the paint cans and clothes line…my shop downstairs has all of these features.

 

[Leadfoot]

For the first two generations of Systainers, using 1000mm seemed to be the most appropriate height for sustainer storage cabinets
Has that changed for systainer3?

 

[Crazyraceguy]

They're all piled up in the corner of the garage. The one I need is always at the bottom of the pile

Bob

That is the major downside of that, least expensive method.


Mine are all in similar cabinets. When I was still working, they were arranged slightly differently, but still grouped together as like-items. They are on pullout trays, that are deeper than the Systainer. That leaves storage space behind also. Sandpaper, Dominos, extra MFK700 bases, etc.

 

[MacBoy]

Love seeing everyone’s storage setup!

The most important item is to have a pullout shelf to put temporary stuff. Here’s how I did mine.

I would do it at elbow-level for every column of systainers.