Harbor Freight showed off new Icon G2 rolling tool cabinets at SEMA 2025, featuring a 30″ depth and updated drawer latches.
From other coverage I’ve seen, the new Icon G2 tool cabinet features a large power tool drawer, and also the option to go with industrial-style divider rails.
HF says that the Icon G2 products are still in development, and that they brought out the 72″ x 30″ roller cab to SEMA for feedback.
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They also showed off lots of US General tool storage products in purple – roller cabinets, a top chest, top hutch, and side lockers.
I bought a couple of Harbor Freight US General tool cabinets. While I can tell they were built to a price point, they’ve been holding up well and deliver a lot of value for the money.
It’s great to see HF moving forward with more innovations and more colors. A lot of other brands seem to have given up on the steel storage space, delivering tired old designs. While this is just an expansion of purple color options, every further available choice is welcome.
Harbor Freight gave no indication of when any of this will be available.
Here’s a quick video tour:
Want to see more? Check out Den of Tools’ coverage:
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Joe
Excited for the G2 version of the roller cabinet. I’d love to see some Icon hanging wall cabinets! One can only hope.
Saulac
Does metal storage have weather/water resistant rating? Beside the Job Box type, any metal chest can be left outside? At least keep things dry? Back to Job Box type, I not sure why it is not more popular with home owners, I’ll take them over those little sheds any day.
Stuart
No, not at reasonable or consumer price points.
Jim Felt
Interesting suggestion you’ve made. I’m wondering if has more to with old habits or potentially a lack of concrete to park a roller cabinet on?
Given I’m in the Pacific Northwest I’d never permanently put “metal” storage outdoors.
I know. I know. But cars and rigs don’t have as many options.
Bonnie
Job boxes are pretty ugly as a rule, even compared to the cheap plastic garden sheds. On a jobsite people couldn’t care less about the aesthetics of a Knaack box.
They’re also just not built to serve as garden sheds. Getting one long enough for rakes and shovels costs an arm and a leg, and you still have to store them all on-top of each other rather than standing/hanging up.
I have used smaller contico truck boxes as deck storage for stuff that needs to be kept very dry.
Jim
Stuart,
When you say “industrial-style divider rails” are you describing the dividers that are used in a Vidmar/lista type cabinet?
Those type dividers are what would send me to the Tekton boxes if I ever had to replace my SnapOn box.
I would love to have HF eventually offer this feature in their smaller size boxes.
Even at extra cost.
Stuart
Yes; perhaps not identical but definitely at least inspired by it. The Den of Tools video shows it off at around the 10:14 mark.
I have yet to divide up the test sample that Tekton sent me, mostly because the drawer layout keeps changing. It’s still fantastic, and I would buy other Rousseau products without hesitation, I just wish they were easier to order.
If their tool carts weren’t so short-lived, I’d have purchased some by now. https://toolguyd.com/tekton-tool-carts/
Phil
Looks like a Matco box