Milwaukee - Dewalt - Ridgid - Makita

Makita is good stuff. From my experience with their drills, bandsaws, rotohammers, in line with Milwaukee FUEL though I have much more time with Milwaukee stuff. But yeah really good tools.

 

Torque Test Channel too.
+Gear Wrench
Husky has some good quality and value too. I bought a 12 wrench set (6+6) of metric+SAE LARGE open/box end for $75 last Xmas, nice polished finished…..Santa sure knows what I need…..

 

For heavy duty at work DeWalt or Milwaukee, but DeWalt’s quality isn’t as good as it used to be when it first came out. I’m in Pipeline, most guys are switching over to Milwaukee from DeWalt except the Grinders. For home use Ryobi, I have a set of Ryobi and for stuff at home can’t beat the price.

 

After having various brands of power tools over the years, I was sold with dewalt. All my friends use them for their careers and swear by them. For me, I’m just the weekend warrior for tools, but I just recently went a little crazy buying tools. Picked up the dewalt xr bundle a couple months ago, followed by the dws780 miter, Costco had the dewalt 8 gallon shop vac on sale for 50 bucks so I picked that up too, followed by the xr jigsaw, and now I’m currently building a modular workbench(4 2’x4’ benches). Next will be a table saw and planer.

 

My Dewalt angle grinder is really nice. I have a lot of their plug in tools, but millwaukee for battery.

Plug in dewalt sander, buffer, heat gun, angle grinder are all great.

 

I love your collection.....How many batteries do you have and what AmpHour? Thank

 

Thank you.

At the moment I only have two batteries(2aH and 5aH) for the dewalt stuff, I have a couple other batteries for my other cheap brushless power tools. If I didn't have those, I would be slowed down by constantly switching batteries between tools and waiting for either battery cool down/charging time. Then again I'm mainly using mine for wood working, so I'm always using the drill/driver, jigsaw, orbital sander, oscillating tool, and the circular saw. Do I want more batteries? Heck yeah! At the moment I can get by, plus it helps not being in the garage all day and then I can spend the downtime between charges taking a break or spending quality time with the miss.

 

Added Makita to the list.

 

Wow I frickin' jinxed myself, today at work one of my decently new badass XC6.0Ah batteries gave me the red and green flashing lights of death on the charger

 

Get Makita. A year ago Milwaukee had an embarrassing incident where they cheapened out on a redesign of impact wrench and had to go back to old design.

 

I know I've posted this before. But, just in case anyone hasn't seen it.. I definitely have a Milwaukee tool problem.

 

Wow

 

When ever I have intimacy problems with my wife I'll just look at this picture.

 

I have a selection. Most are DeWalt 20v. Batteries: several of each,

Include: 2 drills/screwdrivers, lights, circular saw, Saws All, chain saw, grinder, sander and some other stuff!

 

Might have to go to rehab...

 

Ist step is admitting you have a problem!

 

let's be honest Milwaukee is two steps ahead of the game

 

@Thatbassguy , you might be off the hook for rehab. Looks like @djwantke is the one with the addiction problem...

 

Gotta stick with the Makita, since having used since 2003.

 

Ummm.. I might have a few packouts as well.

 

???????????? WTH?

 

Pretty sure you posted in the wrong place.

 

Yeah I wondered where this went. Thanks I'll delete.

 

Festool

 

Great tools, but pricey AF.

 

I have Milwaukee M12 and M18 systems. Never a problem. Well made stuff.

 

Have a Makita drill my parents bought for me in 1989. Still running strong on original batteries. It’s from back in the days before drills had clutches. Makita has probably gone cheaper over the years, but I tend to stick with them.
Really can’t go wrong with whatever you go with, all the brands are getting closer and closer to each other.

 

I jinxed it….a couple days ago I posted my Kobalt batteries have held up with heavy use since 2016…..well I finally had a 2A battery lose a cell yesterday.
Soooo…. I went online to scope out a replacement. Right now if you order online to have the order shipped to your local Lowe’s store you can get a 85w charger and two 4A batteries for $149….just an OK deal….but you also get a choice of a FREE tool! I might do this again for another free tool + batteries and charger.
I added a 5” grinder($129 value).
Now I have 3, one for cutoff wheels, one for flap discs and one for a hard grinder wheel.
A 85w charger, two 4A batteries and a tool for $149….works for me.
During my working years(7yrs/ago)I was lead on a fabrication crew and always bought DEWALT for everyone, great tools but their batteries sucked. The replacement batteries were so expensive, I bought a couple dozen full kits just to get batteries and chargers as it was the $martest way. We had extra drill motors all over the place.
3 grinders? I hate stopping to change wheels in the middle of projects, grab and go preferred.

 

Recently had to upgrade my circular saw and drill and went with DeWalt since my last cordless 9.6v drill from them lasted 25 years (actually still works, just has a bad brush). Also love the huge power options which can be key for some. I also love the yellow for visibility.

Now I have the XR circular saw, XR chain saw, XR Hammer drill, XR Impact drill, XR Oscillating drill, Wok light, XR reciprocating saw and just picked up the weed Wacker which is superior to my gas powered Stihl.