Festool USA has launched a new limited edition outdoors-themed Systainer set.
The new Festool Systainer toolbox has an “outdoors” color scheme, with forest green housing and orange handles.
Festool advertises that the Systainer is “100% mobile.”
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Inside the Systainer, you’ll find (2) 12-ounce powder-coated food-grade stainless steel mugs, which feature a clear ABS lid and no-drop silicone seal, as well as a “Festool camo hat.”
All this can be yours for $99.
While this is advertised as an “outdoor Systainer,” I have found that Systainers work best in indoors or controlled environments. They’re sturdy, but not as durable as other brands’ modular tool boxes, and they’re not weather-sealed against dust or rain.
In my opinion, it looks to be an outdoors Systainer only in name and color.
I should add that I like this size a lot better than Festool’s taller tool boxes, although it wouldn’t be on my shortlist of tool boxes to brave the outdoors with.
If you like the colors, the Festool-branded cups, and the “camo hat,” go for it.
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Maybe a pumpkin color scheme might have worked better, with an orange tool box, front handle, and latch, and top green handle. Pack in some quality pumpkin carving tools, and that’s something I might have considered.
Who’s in for one? You’d better get your order in before they sell out.
Rog
I sure would hope a portable toolbox would be “100% mobile”.
Stuart
Yup. I didn’t get that part.
BigTimeTommy
I’m curious about what would make a toolbox, say, 86.7% mobile.
eddie sky
Corded tools! 😛
Bonnie
Cheap corporate-swag mugs and a cheap corporate-swag hat and an expensive box…
Michael F
As an owner of many Systainers, I wouldn’t take them outside. Heck, I’m not even sure I’d take them to an unfinished job site. They are great in the environment they were designed for: a completed shop for organization or a mostly finished jobsite for finish carpentry/punch list.
tim Rowledge
Well I had no problems with systainers outside whilst building my house. Admittedly we only had a few weeks of torrential rain during the “no roof yet” phase but nothing leaked, no tools got damaged. The tools also demonstrated their toughness on many occasions saw and sander both got dropped from roof peak a few times) so all in all I don’t have any problems with Festool stuff outside.
Michael F
It’s good to know the Systainers can deal with dust and water better than it appears! As for Festool durability, that wasn’t in doubt – I’d assume they’d hold up just fine on a jobsite.
Robert
An Outdoors Festool systainer tool box makes as much sense as an indoor Festool cordless wood chipper.
John Blair
I must get me one of those, I always wanted an indoor cordless wood chipper…. My entry into the Festool battery platform cant come too soon.
Mike McFalls
For what it is worth, I didnt have my truck and had a small job I had a deadline for and so I loaded my systainers onto a cargo carrier for my SUV… well low and behold I got caught in transit in a typically NE Thunderstorm on my way home. Nothing inside the sustainers was wet, but the design lends itself to puddles of water in all the tops.
John
I ordered one a week ago. Festool email blast hit some of us earlier than others. I like the systainer colors, something different. The other items can be gifts. I have a few friends who are into Festool.
Stevie C
why do manufacturers make ‘outdoor’ versions in the least visible colors for an outside environment
Make them in hiViz pink or luminous yellow, where a quick glance will tell me if I’m leaving one behind
Not something verging on olive drab or woodland camo – I’m not planning on hunting critters with a tracksaw (at least not this season)