Home Depot has been promoting new Ridgid Pro Gear 2.0 tool boxes with drawers on social media.
Ridgid added a 3-drawer tool box to their modular tool storage line last year, and after a lengthy delay and period of scarce availability, it can now be found online and at many Home Depot stores nationwide.
Tool users have expressed a lot of interest in the 3-drawer tool box, and so it comes as no surprise to see Home Depot and Ridgid launch 2 new sizes.
There is a new 2-drawer tool box, and a 4-drawer tool box.
As I showed off with the 3-drawer tool box, Ridgid’s drawer units are fully compatible with their rolling tool box cart component. This means that you can add wheels to ANY of the drawer tool boxes, and at any time.
There is a catch, however. At this time, I can only find the all terrain rolling cart bundled with an XL tool box. That is, you can buy the XL tool box with or without the cart component, but the cart is only available with the XL tool box.
I finally found the 3-drawer tool box in-stores. Readers provided news of sightings, and it seems that Home Depot finally rolled it out to most if not all stores.
I tested the drawer unit, and it’s pretty good, although I recently passed it and my purchased and provided Ridgid modular tool boxes to a new tester. Of course Home Depot debuted the two new sizes of drawers a few days later.
My only complaint about the 3-drawer unit is that I would have preferred for 3 equal-depth drawers, rather than 2 shallow and 1 deep. My complaint about the system in general is that Home Depot and Ridgid haven’t brought a lot of useful-to-me accessories to market, such as a 4-wheel dolly or work top.
Other than that, everything has been solid. The ability to swap the XL tool box – or drawer tool box – that’s attached to the 2-wheel rolling cart is an incredibly convenient feature that’s unique to Ridgid. I can talk more about this in another post – let me know if you have any questions about my experiences with the Ridgid system.
Users have demanded “drawers on the bottom,” and Ridgid is so far the only brand to listen.
ToughBuilt is soon coming out with rolling drawers as well, but I feel that Ridgid’s ability to pair any drawer tool box to the rolling cart provides for more flexibility. ToughBuilt already has more mobility options, with more on the way.
Speaking about what’s on the way, Milwaukee Tool is working on rolling drawers for their Packout system, and Dewalt recently announced a supersized ToughSystem DXL system.
See Also: Dewalt ToughSystem DXL is a New Supersized Modular Tool Box System
The new Ridgid tool boxes are pretty similar in construction to the existing 3-drawer unit.
The 3-drawer tool box has 1 deep and 2 shallow drawers. Shown here is the new 2-drawer tool box, with both being deep drawers.
The other new tool box has 4 shallow drawers.
While this isn’t a huge product expansion, it’s definitely welcome.
Some of Ridgid’s tool boxes come with wall-mounting brackets, and so I would hope other shop-friendly components and accessories are in the works, such as a 4-wheel cart.
Ridgid Drawer Tool Box Prices
- 2-drawer tool box – $109, on sale for $99.98
- 3-drawer tool box – $119
- 4-drawer tool box – $129
Buy the 2-Drawer Tool Box at Home Depot
Buy the 3-Drawer Tool Box at Home Depot
Buy the 4-Drawer Tool Box at Home Depot
The 2- and 4-drawer tool boxes are only available online right now. If you want to get a feel for them in person, check out the 3-drawer tool box that’s now in stores.
The 3-drawer tool box did not have dividers for every drawer. It’s unclear whether the same is true for the new models. From the product images, some of the drawers appear to lack dividers.