I do minor construction work and I use Ryobi tools. I havent has any issues nor do I come to diy often. Would you guys like roast the shit out of me or am I ok? Seems Ryobi is a meme but it's served me very well from footers to roofing and everything in between.
If y'all roast me, why? Tools work. Like I'm genuinely curious.
Because DeWalt and Milwaukee posters don't want to consider that they overpaid to do the same thing. My Ryobi worked fine until lightning got my charger with battery in it.
If they get your jobs done for you made a good choice.
My Milwaukee and Dewalt (and others) do things my Ryobi can't. I use what gets the job done, Ryobi included.
The only meme is thinking you're trapped by battery compatibilty. Just get what works for you, not because of batteries or colors.
>My Milwaukee and Dewalt (and others) do things my Ryobi can't.
examples?
Ryobi makes a 23ga cordless pin nailer but DeWalt doesn't. Get your shit together, team bumble bee.
>just redundantly invest in proprietary batteries, the most expensive part of the tool, bro.
Salesman detected.
I will hack a DeWalt battery on to a Ryobi pin nailer if they continue to fail to produce one.
I know a guy who buys all Rigid stuff for the warranty. He's had his impact fixed for free several times. Every time it fails he's without his impact for a week.
>I know a guy who buys all Rigid stuff for the warranty
Bingo
I don't have enough money to buy cheap tools
Costs more to be without the tool for a week each time. Would be cheaper to buy the component and fix it yourself than wait for it to be sent out under warranty.
Not sure the solution to a failing power tool is to buy two.
I've replaced my DeWalt impact once after ~7 years of abuse but apart from that the only service I ever had to do to it is replace the little spring that holds the ball bearing in the chuck. It's a $1 part, worth having one around for when the spring fails.
He needs a backup!
I almost bought the newest drill-impact driver kit to get the free tool with it and a couple more batteries since it’s only $100 more than the bare tool, but I really don’t need a 4th impact and hammer drill and it’s not worth dealing with idiots on CL or FB Marketplace to make some money back.
For serious though the subcompacts are sweet, I love that driver way more than I expected to.
>Salesman detected. I will hack a DeWalt battery on to a Ryobi pin nailer if they continue to fail to produce one.
That's exactly what I meant dipshit and poorgay detected. Don't be a can't read meme.
>dipshit
>poorgay
We're agreed so much that you insult me and yourself by extension?
Are you advocating economical self-reliance or condemning it?
The battery and charger together cost $20. They deliberately overprice the replacement batteries to trick you into sticking with one brand due to sunk costs, but if you are buying a new tool anyway you may as well get the battery and charger as well. And if you're getting a new battery and charger anyway there's not much reason to stick with one brand.
>And if you're getting a new battery and charger anyway there's not much reason to stick with one brand.
Except that if you need a new battery or charger and can get one ir two batteries and a charger + another new tool for the price of one battery one, if the battery format has stayed compatible there's a great reason to stay with that brand; now you've expanded the total batteries you can use in any of those tools and/ or your charging capacity and you also have another tool to use.
>The battery and charger together cost $20
Please send link to where I can buy the battery and charger for $20.
It's right there in the ad, tool alone is $199 w/o battery, when you buy the tool w/battery+ charger they add $20 more to the price for a total of $219.
>It's right there in the ad
You have not shown any ad for a $20 battery and charger.
>tool alone is $199 w/o battery
>tool w/battery+ charger a total of $219
Difference in retail markup != fantasy retail cost of batteries.
Nowhere are $20 batteries available except knock-offs, and you have made no point with regard to battery investment across multiple proprietary tool platforms.
sorry about your brain injury
EZ, and with great articulation.
>EZ, and with great articulation.
Wasn't asking how you fellate yourself, but thanks for sharing, I guess.
>you fellate yourself
Not since I was a teenager.
>The battery and charger together cost $20
lol
Without his impact for a week? I'm so jealous. I live in Ohio, drop my tools directly at the Ridgid service center at their world headquarters in Elyria and have never gotten a tool back in under a month. I'm invested in all Ridgid cordless and batteries or I'd start replacing just because their cordless tools all burn up so fast.
For the price point Ridgid is at go with DeWalt, Milwaukee, or Makita.
People just dont understand the absolute HAULS you can get when Home Depot has sales!
Ryobi is real light on the ole pocketbook!
The father's day sale was damn near moronic. Buy a pack of batteries(6ah, 4ah, 2ah and a charger) and you get a free tool worth up to $200. I picked the brushless angle grinder and I haven't had a complaint yet. The price of the battery bundle was like $30 more than a single 6ah battery, so why wouldn't I go with the bundle?
DeWalt user here, but I have no problem recommending Ryobi to someone who doesn't want to spend an arm and a leg on shit that he will not use every day.
Dewalt is overpriced at Home Depot, and Lowes, you can get it on specials on Amazon or buy it at Costco for like half the costs.
I've got some bad news for you about your half price amazon dewalt
let me get this in before the shitshow of trolls shows up
if your ryobis are doing what you need them to do, and youre making money with them, by all means keep up the good work
This, but also what are the warranties? Ive went with Ridgid mostly for the warranty
Honestly I bought Ryobi because my father is cheap and bought one. I noticed he still had it years later. They are cheap enough to where if I drop it off a roof I can run to the store and replace it without worrying about it.
Also thanks guys. Didn't expect you guys to be so chill. Thought everyone be tool prostitutes and whatnot.
>Thought everyone be tool prostitutes
Says the guy who made a thread about being a tool prostitute.
I asked so if I future post i know wether or not it's gonna get derailed because tools. That's about it. There arnt that many tool prostitutes here but the vocal ones instantly invalidate themselves..so it's fine. I got my answer.
>Thought everyone be tool prostitutes and whatnot.
For all the shit talking, my experience is that most of the people with any real experience here beyond hobby stuff are pretty based, and the fact is that there's a flip side to the truism that "It's a poor workman who blames his tools", which is that that means you can't pre-judge someone's work by his choice of tools.
There are other professional considerations besides work quality that matter and make better tools important for pros, but those are usually related to getting jobs done in the allotted time so they're profitable, avoiding delays because of downtime, etc.
But it also happens that people who choose the slickest, fastest, "best" methods and tools sometimes do so because they want to blast through as many jobs as humanly possible in a ridiculously short amount of time that practically guarantees shit quality work due to lack of attention.
This is seen a lot with production work that pays by the lineal or square foot, where speed and volume can become the only metric anyone cares about.
Thanks.
>They are cheap enough to where if I drop it off a roof I can run to the store and replace it without worrying about it.
If your Ryobi breaks you are paying well over the premium prices to replace it. If I know I'm going to be using it a bunch I pay more. That said I buy Ryobi for stuff I practically never use. If I end up using it enough to break it I get whatever is the better tool.
Thing is I never broke a Ryobi tool yet. I'm saying hypothetically if I dropped my 60$ brushless Ryobi hammer drill, I can get 2 more and break 2 more before I'd reach the cost of a higher market brand. So if it's lasted as long as it has with no issue I can assume, unless negligent, Ryobi is better buy. I genuinely have enough income for any tool set, but Ryobi made the most sense to me. Then I got hassled a few times and was curious how many tool prostitutes exist and wether or not if I figure post I should mention a tool or just keep it project orientated.
Straight up, I'm glad I got the ugly green cause I don't get my shit mixed up with anyone elses. I've seen kobalt, DeWalt and rigid fail on sites so far. Kobalt bring the worst with a table saw switch intermittent, Ultimately pretty happy with Ryobi. Some of the stuff feels a bit like a novelty and some of the brushed tools feel underpowered I admit.
You've inspired me to try Ryobi more. I actually really like their novelty stuff. The misting fan that you can put on a 5 gallon bucket is a life saver and extends my working time by like an hour on 100+ degree days. I might buy the brad nailer today and see about returning the DeWalt since it's $100 less.
I do trim work with the 18v nailer. Its served me well and saved me alot of time and effort.
Why doesn't the flooring go under the trim
Yeah that's pretty shit. Needs quarter round now.
Its retrofit. I agree on a new build you best be avoiding the quarter round unless youre a butcher, looks much snazier.
I should of probably mentioned it wasn't done in pic. I assumed y'all would know. Just showing what I did with a Ryobi nailer. Attached is with the quarter round.
>Just showing what I did with a Ryobi nailer
>But the first picture was extraneous and not of the work I did
>I assumed y'all would know
Ok
I think Ryobi is great for home stuff, but if I drop my milwaukee drill off a roof, good chance its still going to be working normally afterwards. My last impact was constantly being knocked off the top of ladders by the apprentice but it kept on going no worries.
If your Ryobi breaks, just buy a new one, idiot
Ryobi is 3 years. Pretty much every brand is 3 years on their 18V tools and batteries except for Milwaukee with 5 on tools/ 3 on batteries, Ridgid with the LSA although 3 if you don’t register and batteries used to be 3 years unless they camr in a kit, and I believe Kobat and maybe Flex 24V are 5 years, batteries might be 5 years as well.
You do get more speed settings and features on the more expensive stuff, but Ryobi is underrated. You can pay double to get an extra 10%-20% performance from Milwaukee Fuel or DeWalt XR, but normal weekender use is never going to get to a place where they can’t get the job done without the extra 10% a Fuel had over a One+ HP.
Ridgid or Milwaukee fan with metal hook and infinitely variable speed isn’t worth 2x-3x as much as the Ryobi with a plastic hook and 2 speeds.
I would still have the better brand if I paid the mortgage with the tools because that extra 10% might save you 30min a week when you’re using them all day, and that will add up over the life of the tool.
I have seen alcoholic contractors doing work with Bauer tools, but they’re not really doing quality work nor are they getting thr job done quickly so it doesn’t matter.
My wife pays all of bills. I just do this cause I would smoke too much weed if I stayed home all day. So I got a 32 hour a week job with another pot head. I got my land and animals down to a science and it opened up alot of time. Being a homemaker was hands down the easiest, but most fulfilling, thing I ever done. It's insane how much freedom allows you to get shit done. Everyone should have more free time.
Also wife works from home and I cook and clean for her. So she isnt a cash cow. She gets catered to.
I literally use my entire paycheck for stuff to either renovate for her or I'll smoke it and buy treats for the chickens, sometimes on medical for farm animals.
Fat dog attached.
living the dream, anon. How did you find yourself in such a preferrable situation?
Have you thought about starting a Youtube Channel?
You can be your own boss babe (or man, depending on your preferred pronoun)!
I would never trust a female DIY channel but that fat black lesbian see Jane drill has some pretty good videos.
Does your wife do PrepHole?
Ryobi is my favorite tool brand by far.
They have the most activist, progressive tool brands out there, with activities and movements to get minorities, women, and other ill represented groups into doing PrepHole!
There needs to be less toxic masculinity in doing it yourself.
This is a great article, what have YOU (assuming you identify as a woman) been told you cant do?
With Ryobi you CAN!
Think about how it could bring you and the wife together, hotgluing some crafts together with your cordless Ryboi hot glue gun. Maybe bedazzle your dogs winter sweater!
https://www.theplumbette.com.au/featured/empowering-women-to-use-power-tools-what-have-you-been-told-you-cant-do/
How does a triangle work on an angle grinder
You should have went to the last Womens Day that Ryobi put on. Youd know thats an oscillation tool not an angle grinder!
I have a hard time imagining what I'd use an oscillating tool for, I didn't buy a corded one when it was 80% off at Canadian tire either
Maybe women use them instead of angle grinders?
>what I'd use an oscillating tool for
1) Plunge cuts where your circular saw/reciprocating saw won't quite reach, but you want to finish the cut instead of use a chisel.
2) Detail sanding.
3) Surprising your gf through her pants with the sanding pad still on.
It's actually a very handy tool.
I've always just worked it out another way for #1, but I guess if you do a lot of wood work inside existing houses it would come in handy
>Maybe women use them instead of angle grinders?
No, you are just a fricking moron
They are incredibly useful when installing doors and windows and trim in existing structures for trimming up to existing flooring using a toothed blade to make pku ge cuts, very precise and minimal risk of damaging things. Every pro door/window guy I know got one as soon as they could afford it, they are a godsend in that work.
Also great for trimming and making non round holes in fiberglass without all the dust and slop of an angle grinder.
The triangle sander pads are very useful for finish prep on furniture and other items with tight spots that need serious sanding.
Cutting outlets and switches into interior sheathing.
>I have a hard time imagining what I'd use an oscillating tool for
That's what I thought and then I bought one for drywall stuff and now I use it for everything.
I use mine for sanding between spindles on decks and to trim the bottoms off door trim when changing tiles, it's pretty versatile.
from what I've read and experienced that seems to be the trend. I bought one purely as a putty scraper, but boy does it have a multitude of other uses.
>makeshift pipe cutter (copper and plastic)
>panel trimmer
>wood shaver
I just used mine for cutting out slots in a wood, It's kind of an imagination tool honestly, like you can do a lot with it, but you need to be creative.
anon, it vibrates like frick
Sounds uncomfortable. Who would want to use a tool like that?
You’re fricking crazy. I do full remodels and I use it all the time. It’s the most versatile tool out there.
You ever drill a bunch of holes in a square shape and then knock them out with a chisel? Yea its so you don't have to do that. Also for sanding tight corners, like internal corners in weatherboards. It doesn't really do anything that well but it is useful.
No YouTube. I'm a hill person. I don't want fame or to be noticed.
My wife is a office fly. It wasn't always like this. I was doing 80 hour weeks at a slaughter house. She saw I was literally dying and got a at home job at a bank making what I made in 80, knee deep in blood, but in 40 and in her underwear. Spent like 6 months unemployed screwing my head back on. When my son was born I was allowed to leave work to see him birth but was expected back as soon as the cord was cut.
It all worked out. We are happy in the end. I wish she blew me more is about it.
>We are happy in the end. I wish she blew me more is about it.
Tell her that, but make her writhe like a spastic moronic going down on her first.
Based
Also lot of seething "muh tool brand makes me a REAL MAN" insecure guys ITT. Get out of the closet you gays lmao
It's fine. I deal with people like them alot. When they break a tool and ask to borrow mine I make a huge deal about it and tell them I don't know if mine can do the job. If you ask me. They didn't start crying like it was Tumblr till I mentioned I'm married and she takes care of me. I'd guess their either jealous of the wife or life. Which is fine. Inferiors and their insecurities are not my problem.
Wait till they find out I'm a construction worker in Kentucky who carries around pro Biden bumper stickers to place on people's cars as jokes, or if you park like a butthole. Talk about rage. You really piss me off I got pro LGBTQ stickers.
Oh shit, you're from KY? My friends and I built a cabin in a nondescript location near that pizza place that all the young climbers like. Our neighbors have their own hollers and mind their own business, just like it should be.
speaking of hooks, picrel
very convenient especially if doing work on ladders or something having to switch out tool 1 handed.
I've only used it for 10 days so far so I can't speak to the longevity, though it seems well made. the metal hooks never lasted me too long.
I just get a carabiner hook set up into my one hand tools and hook em to my tool belt. That looks cool though and lighter weight
Blippi, the multi million dollar man uses Ryobi.
Its not about the money, its about being smart and buying the right tool for YOU.
You are so right on many levels
Based
Connoisseur of tools
Based pedo for not doing the video using real tools and not fisher price.
>You can pay double to get an extra 10%-20% performance from Milwaukee Fuel
You are low balling it. If you wait for Milwaukee's 30% off sales you're paying 40% more for 30% better performance + longevity. Ryobi typically doesn't have sales that low. The same parent company owns both brands (their jigsaws are practically identical on the outside) so they keep careful track of price v performance to see what consumers are willing to pay. The quality is what scales more consistently with price, not so much the specs.
>Ryobi typically doesn't have sales that low
Did you just miss when they were selling a pack of 3 batteries on sale for $200 and threw in a brushless mid torque worth $170 for free?
ok that is an extremely good deal but it is not typical. h depot says it's 43% discount. That is a starter purchase to get you hooked, like a crack dealer selling you the good stuff at first. Milwaukee has 2 batteries and their top of the line drill right now for $200, and it's only a 20% discount. they go as high as 43% too (scalpers buy them and resell on amazon at 20% markup though so they're getting less common).
This summer cycle there's some pretty unusually good and plain unusual deals. I think companies are adjusting to shit market conditions
Ryobi has done battery kits with free tools thrown in all the time. Percentages are meaningless when you're still spending more for something that one arguably doesn't actually need
>If y'all roast me, why?
Why would I roast you, Black Lives Matter!
Trans rights are Human rights!
Girl power!
Dont forget your mask at Home Depot!
Op here. Honestly the only thing I ever hear people complain about Ryobi is usually the color. Never about performance
True!
My Ryobis never fail to work the 3 or 4 times a year I need to use them!
Those lime green tools are the best! They're so versatile and user-friendly. I've used them for everything from simple home improvement projects to more complex woodworking and they've never let me down.
The quality of those lime green tools is really impeccable. They're durable and long-lasting, so I know I can rely on them for years to come. I also love how easy they are to use. The instructions are always clear and concise, and I never have any trouble figuring out how to operate the various tools.
In short, I absolutely love those lime green tools! They've made my life so much easier and I would highly recommend them to anyone.
>Would you guys like roast the shit out of me or am I ok?
Are you a real man?
I have a Ryobi drill whose battery died on me way too fast. I didn't want it anymore, so I tried to give it to my neighbor. He refused, because he had the exact same model and was trying to ditch his, because his battery died on him way too fast. Then I went to the superintendent of my building, asked him if he wanted it, HE refused it for the same reason. In one week, three people from one building tossed three Ryobi drills into the trash.
I had a similar issue with an early 2000s era Ryobi drill and inability to get replacement batteries without insane cost and hassle even though it was <5 years old, so off to the thrift store it went . That doesn't mean they haven't gotten better or that other "better" brands won't do the same thing, but I see no reason to take another chance.
I just don't like the way they feel. Simple as. I have a few of their tools.
Ryobi got much better and Makita got worse.
Not sure if Makita is even any better at this point except looks and ergos and feel.
>Would you guys like roast the shit out of me or am I ok?
This isn't reddit.
I only use Bosch because it's the best shade of blue
I went and watched a bunch of Project Farm on youtube and settled on kobalt for my use since they seemed to trend towards the middle of the pack and I don't have a professional need for tools, I got the kobalt cordless drill most recently and it's pretty decent but it's replacing an old black and decker that lasted well over a decade, so we'll see. My best friend has a mix of ryobi and dewalt that he likes though.
I sink screws much easier with a ryobi drill
I'm a house painter so tbh we mostly just take simple stuff like doors apart or the like but we have both Ryobi and Makita impact drivers/hammer drills and they seem pretty similar overall. The Makita is better but its a lot more expensive. If I wasn't claiming my tools back on tax (which I do) I'd get Ryobi and not lose any sleep over it.
Nope. Don’t give a shit. I have tools from tons of different manufacturers, even harbor junk stuff. If it works it works.
The real pill is to buy corded tools and not care about brand if you are a "once in a while" diy guy. Batteries dying or being stuck to a brand really sucks. I have one good battery drill (Bosch) and the rest of my tools are all corded.
My at work trade tools are heckin' serious though, Makita or imported Italian grinders, but they produce money with low down time, never need service and typically paid off in one job. Everything else is whatever fits the budget for how long I need it.
this bad boy cost me something like 10k, has made me tens of thousands and it runs beside ryobi palm sanders, black and decker orbitals etc.
what do you use this for? flooring?
It's a planetary grinder, I use it for cutting fresh installed marble/granite so it is perfectly flat without height change across tiles. I have lighter machines for polishing. Ground my garage floors with it too, it's a beast, needs that 220 stove plug.
Built a house with Ryobi, no breakages. Only real issue I ran into was inconsistent setting depth when using the finishing nailer on hardwood trim. So an extra two hours on the whole house to go around and tap in some of them with a punch. The circular saw is kinda meh, but that is more because it's a 7-1/4".
Also got the multi-head outdoor power whatever the call it, with line-trimmer/weedwhacked and the edge heads. They work fine. Can do the whole property with single charge of one of the 4AH batteries. Using the lightweight 1.5AH I'll end up having to swap.
Every time I use my corded recip, circ and sometimes angle grinder I think about needlessly purchasing a battery one
My circular saw is pretty sweet. It's not Ryobi because I have mainly standardized on DeWalt. But it's nice to not have to drag a cord around and it has handled anything I've thrown at it.
My problem is being stuck in a single brand for batteries and chargers.if you need to be mobile, sure it makes sense, but for me once Im staged I don't move around a bunch. Battery drill is imperitive of course, everyone needs one, the rest I don't mind hauling my thick 3 way split extension cord.
Just commit. And honestly, there are adapters that allow you to swap shit out. I'm convinced that they make their money with batteries though. They are generally free with a tool, but the 40V Ryobi's are $200.00 EACH! But again, there are cheap Chinese rip offs that work fine.
For me, it's DeWalt for tools and Ryobi for lawn and garden. This has served me well so far.
Every single time I use my cordless reciprocating saw or my cordless angle grinder, I wish I just had my corded one instead
PrepHole is moronic and think they are building experts when they most liekly work an office job or are unemployed
tools are tools and they have to meet standards to even be allowed in to the country, meaning they are all the same they just come in different pretty colors, the only thing you dont want to skimp out on and buy cheaper alternative is safety equipment
>tools have to meet standards to even be allowed in to the country
even if this was true, cant some tools exceed that standard thus being superior?
Depends on the standard; if some safety margin is set for some extreme threshold like say a rotary tool bit speed that literally can't be reached outside a testing lab just so nobody in the field can make it come apart that way, doubling that threshold has no practical purpose other than to look "better" on paper.
Corded tool power cords are made to tolerate certain conditions related to resistance heating of the cord so it can't catch on fire below a temperature point that is nearly impossible to get to IRL, a cord that can tolerate 6000°F before failng isnt better in any useful sense but would jack the cost up astronomically.
So you genuinely believe theres no difference between an impact driver from harbor freight, and a top of the line Makita?
No, and there's nothing in the post you are responding to to suggest that.
What part of "depends on the standard " did you think was a declaration that -
>theres no difference between an impact driver from harbor freight, and a top of the line Makita
???
Had a Chicago electric circular saw, it was never balanced and the blade liked to wobble. Made me nervous as hell and I threw it away before it's life ended.
I use harbor freight for one time tools I'm going to throw away. I also had one of their rotary tools explode a disc. Idk if it was off balance too or if it was just me or destined to happen. I'm white trash and almost lost a eye.
Inb4 safety goggles
>they have to meet standards to even be allowed in to the country, meaning they are all the same they just come in different pretty colors
This tbh, maybe you are a different anon
>the only thing you dont want to skimp out on and buy cheaper alternative is safety equipment
But that has to meet even more strictly enforced standards than power tools do.
>tools are all the same they just come in different pretty colors
Tell that to pressure washers and paint sprayers. The same goes for anything you need a high degree of accuracy using. Drills and impacts are effectively the same. At $40, the brushless hammer drill doesn't deserve to be compared to a hot glue gun.
The 18ga battery powered is a convenience tool. It's optimal for a lot of carpentry application but if you're trimming all day long or need perfection then the air tools are better served. The gun is a little temperamental about debris in the barrel and driving pressure, but green outperforms some of the more expensive brands here.
>The 18ga battery powered is a convenience tool. It's optimal for a lot of carpentry application but if you're trimming all day long or need perfection then the air tools are better served. The gun is a little temperamental about debris in the barrel and driving pressure, but green outperforms some of the more expensive brands here.
This is a sentence made of words. There are many words that could be put in a sentence but for these sentences we choose words that do not pertain to the above.
Fricking moron. You grab the 18ga battery gun so that you don't have to drag a compressor and trip over the fricking hoses.
All battery trim nailers are shit and won't shoot 500 brads a minute. It's a tool for 1 to 2 hour jobs, the ones that really get slapped up like your mom on a school night.
L-ion cordless nailers are garbage. Get the compressor in a bottle setup if you really don't wanna run hose and compressor.
Ryobi is S tier shit, frick these morons on this board
Use HART made by TTI, and has fantastic sales.
Their 14" 40V chain saw is great. Light enough that my wife can wield it and very reliable. Battery life with the latest version is very good.
I will say that Ryobi 40V batteries suck. If they get below a certain voltage, they will not charge. (Google it - a common problem), but I've purchased a few off brand 40V batteries off of Amazon and my house hasn't burned down and they have exceeded my expectations, which were low.
I ordered a bunch of "dead" 40V Ryobi batteries off of eBay, and revived them by applying 40V directly to the cells in the pack (limited to like 0.5A, of course).
Let them charge like that for a couple hours, then they charged just fine on the stock charger.
they will work for a 5 second - 5 minute job once in a while.
get their reciprocating saw and run it for 20 minutes straight cutting through old BUR or modified bitumen roof and get back to me.
I drilled through brick useing their brushless hammer drill for about 2 hours straight, going through 2 batteries, where my body gave before the tool did. It was right through the brick. I still use the same one today. Works like a charm so far. I wasn't a huge fan of their 5 and a half circular saw though. It felt under powdered, but I may lf been expecting too much. It worked, just slowed me down.
>I do minor construction work
You use one of those gig work apps?
No. I work for a small local realty company. They do custom homes and remodeling. Me and a 60 yr old stoner hop sites. Did a footer the other day, he almost died, so we been doing trim work for a few weeks. Built a wall. Stained and varnished that trim in previous photo. Pretty cushy gig. My boss drops 5 million like it's nothing, won't question any tool purchase and pays it and he lets me smoke joints in front of him as long as I'm responsible. Pretty nice. Before this I worked at a plant nursery, same thing, and before that a fortune 500 company for most of my working life doing 80 hour weeks butchering animals.
Fridge at our office attached. One of the better jobs I've had. Unfortunately I don't drink.
Oh okay, you do the handyman work for the realty company, and set up the model home for mass viewing, i guess.
I didn't know realty businesses did any of that.
Na, i work in customers homes. I dont want to use the company name, but basically customers build their own homes and if they need anything or have any questions or if someone flakes we are like a safety net.
I have to go run gutters the other day because the builders let it hang off the house and just drop 4 feet into the ground. Ran it down and out into the yard till the builders come back and burry pipe for it the proper way.
Thats a example of what i do. Recently im working at the main office because boss just bought a new one. We are making it look all nice and shit so he can setup displays of siding and cabinets and stuff. Honestly fell into it by accident, i was smoking with the old man and complaining about remodeling my house. One day i got a call from him and asked if i was bored and wanted to work a little. They then hired me a week later.
We also built a wall inside the office recently and are currently paneling it so boss has a large walk in storage. I guess handyman is the right term, but I have customers homes i go into. Guy i work with calls us carpenters. He was over his life, but im not, handyman is right for me. I do whatever i got the tools to work on.
I could not give any less of a frick what tools anybody else uses and I can't understand why anybody does.
I'd be glad to see you using Ryobi because at least you won't try to steal my batteries.
I don't have an issue with Ryobi performance, but the colour is fricking rancid.
just fyi lowes craftsman is consistently $5 cheaper than the ryobi
Milwaukee/Dewalt is more durable than Ryobi. You can drop a Milwaukee impact off of a 20 foot ladder onto concrete and it will bounce and work just the same as it did before. Ryobi will explode into plastic shrapnel
The people who buy and use ryobi (about once a year) dont own ladders anon.
Probably fine for 'minor' work but my Ryobi saw couldnt cut through but particle board or 1/4" plywood.
What kind of saw?
Built sheds and coops with ryobi drill no problem.
Of course I use corded tools almost exclusively and only battery drills if I’m too far or on a roof, or just doing one or two things around the house.
Fricking Ryobi chuck sucks!
Bit fell right out.
Haven't had that issue. But I'm also a fricking gorilla with stupid ass grip strength (I got that moron structure) so I just turn on the drill setting and hold tight, burn out my hand a little and blamo, it's never fallen out and my callouses are filed slightly.
Whatever tool is on sale with a Bosch battery adapter
>watch some websites that deal in powertools for sales
>makita has the best promos all the way through father's day
>going to begin a large diy project and need a tool suite soon, go ahead and pull trigger
>drop $900 on 8 tools w/ 4 batteries
>drill
>impact driver
>impact wrench
>recip saw
>circ saw
>jigsaw
>die grinder
>angle grinder
>gonna grab a chainsaw w/ 2 more batteries next paycheck
hopefully they work out nice. I'm finally moving out from grandparents so I wont be able to just grab grandad's shit anymore.
I've never had a bad Makita going all the way back to their famous old angle grinders.
Nothing wrong with using Ryobi or Dewalt. If you're not that big in the industry and do jobs here and there who gives a shit. I've seen carpenters use Skil saws and Harbor Freight pancake compressors on the site before.
I did have the chance to use a Makita driver on a fencing job one time and I will say it was the easiest driver I have ever used. I have heard Makita's brushings frick up real fast, though (mostly from Milwaukee bros). You have to remember that all brands produce absolute trash sometimes. The market is laden with little piece of shit money grabs that they put on the floor at any hardware store. Be sure to read the information on the box before buying and if it doesn't sound right, look for an alternative.
Ryobi impact driver is great, the tire air-pump saved my ass more than once.
why does literally every manufacturer try to make their tools look like nerf guns?
High Vis so you dont lose them on a construction site.
I guess that makes sense
The bright visuals make it easy to find if dropped into brush, mud, or dark areas. The brands fight for the bright colors. That's why even tho Ryobi is ugly as shit, I get why the color.
Also I don't get shot if cops scare me while I'm working and think I'm useing a 5.56 to drive nails.
It's Ryobi days at home Depot everyone deals to be had
Techtronic Industries Company Limited (TTI):AEG
Dirt Devil
Empire
Hart
Homelite
Hoover
Imperial Blades
Milwaukee
Oreck
Ryobi
Stiletto
Vax
Stanley Black & Decker Inc.:AeroScout
Black & Decker
Bostitch
Craftsman
DeWalt
Facom
Irwin Tools
Lenox
Lista
Mac Tools
Porter-Cable
Proto
Stanley
Vidmar
but what if i buy tools from both conglomerates?
Makita:
Makita
if your main argument against ryobi is durability, then treat your tools better? frick
Shit happens on a site mate, and apprentices are morons.
For the average person Ryobi is fine. I have done plenty of work with my Dewalt tools right beside my buddy who has Ryobi and both could do the job. That being said the Dewalt/Milwaukee tools from my experience simply go the extra mile when it comes to the extreme. My cordless sawzall can go through thicker branches much faster then my buddies, or doesn't get bogged down while his does. My impact driver sinks screws in much faster then his does, hammer drill completes a hole in 1/3rd of the time when doing masonry work, etc. . . That being said I also tend to do a lot more with my tools then he does since I build cars, furniture, do home repair and more. I could probably do everything I currently do with Ryobi or another budget brand, but I like my Dewalt tools and the little bit more power they have.
Is the Battery pack and 1/2 brushless impact gun worth getting? I don't have any impact gun currently and was wondering.
Yes, that thing is pure value. The impact itself is also really damn good, basically just an older Milwaukee Fuel
Milwaukee stuff will last 3 years on the jobsite while the Ryobi will only last 1, but it doesn't matter anyway because the Milwaukee stuff will be stolen in the first year anyway
I love how insecure Ryobi too users are, needing constant validation for buying their tools
It's because Ryobi gets constantly trash talked by guys who believe the color of their cordless tools is what determines their competency as tradesmen.
The color of your tools does determine your competency as tradesmen
Sure Red, Yellow, or Blue tools dont matter. They are all on par with each other and arent going to be a detriment
But once you start cheaping out, buying lime green or from the hazard store or from the walton family, it 100% does show your competence and how you run things.
There is a reason that no tradesman buy Ryobi, and it has nothing to do with reddit and youtube comments hurting their feelings.
There is a reason the Cliche "time is money" exists. Its clear you dont understand how much wages cost, or how much running a business costs, or a tradesmans motivation to finish a job quickly and efficiently.
As a NEET PrepHoleler, I understand that an extra $60 up front is a whole lot of money to you.
For tradesman, $60 to not have a battery or a tool fail on you in the middle of the job, or to have it be 30% faster for a more efficient job is worth far more than the admission price.
People get made fun of buying Ryobi because they constantly, non-stop have to cope and lie to themselves about their tools.
There is nothing wrong with you being cheap anon. But your mental gymnastics over "the tool doesnt make the tradesman" cope just makes you look really pathetic and sad.
I mean look at
"if it gets the job done" is NOT an option when you are on the clock, you buy tools that will unequivocally get the job done in a fast and efficient manner.
Or even
Just treat your tools better when using them hard all day in the field?
Its not like tools get misused or abused, they simply get worked for 8 hours straight and brands like Ryobi literally cant handle it.
A tradesman looks at another tradesman with disdain over their cheaping out on tools because they know better. It just shows how shortsighted and stupid they are, and how they are obviously trying to cut as many corners as possible.
Its ok to buy tools mean for women and troons, just dont try to pretend otherwise
Who is team blue?
Both Makita and Bosch are blue
Bosch doesnt exist in the USA
Nobody cares about bongs
>A tradesman looks at another tradesman with disdain over their cheaping out on tools because they know better.
>Its ok to buy tools mean for women and troons, just dont try to pretend otherwise
theres also the fact that trades are full of insecure men who are desperate to prove their manliness any way they can, and judging their place based on tools is an obvious substitute for a dick measuring contest.
Males with issues entering into trades to prove something about how manly they are is so common that anyone who knows anything about the "troons" you speak of know that its traditionally been incredibly common for them to go into allegedly manly fields like construction, the military, police work, athletic competition etc. as males in an attempt to rid themselves of any cross gender identity through immersion in performative manliness that is reinforced and rewarded by all the other scared men who are there pretending to be something they're not, ie men who are emotionally secure as men.
Men who are emotionally secure as men dont give a frick what brand of tool someone else buys or uses.
Cope
>Cope
Yes, that's a good word to describe
>insecure men who are desperate to prove their manliness any way they can judging their place based on tools
It's massive cope, as are attempts to justify it as rational and useful when it gets called out for the desperate penis extension strategy it is.
ABSOLUTELY BASED
COPE AND SEETHE RYOBItroony
troonyOBI KEKS
It always comes down to buying the right tool for you and your specific work style. People get all ass blasted because they bought the wrong tool for what they wanted to do. With power tools it's a finer distinction, but when you scale it up to something like a truck, I see it all the time. Somebody will go to a dealership and buy a truck with the wrong engine and wrong gear ratio for what they do, and then when it blows up, they blame the logo on the grill.
If it gets the job done it gets the job done and that's all that matters.
I have a think impact driver that has literally driven tens of thousands of them screws, if not nearly 100,000. It's so old it's blue in colour. It shrieks a bit now, but still works every day,and has been dropped countless times.
Think are very very under rated..
Oh, so its held up to ~ a months worth of work from a fence guy putting wooden fences up?
Very impressive, maybe next time you see a group of guys putting up fences your experience.
10 screws a minute, every single minute, 40 hrs per week for a month. For $45. Not a bad tool
>10 screws a minute, every single minute
I do more than that with regularity, and I am an electrician, not even someone who needs to screw constantly like a carpenter.
You honestly use it on average every 6 seconds without stopping for your entire day every single day? I find that hard to believe. Im sure you use an impact a lot, but thats too much.
>Not a bad tool
Sure, if you only expect a real months work out of it
Great for the homeowner who is going to very lightly use it over the period of a decade, it works fine.
No reason for people like OP to get extremely asshurt that actual tradies arent going to buy and laud tools meant for light usage.
Ryobi is frickin mint. House brands occasionally can be pretty damn good too. I've got a mix of brands, mostly M12, Mak and some Ryobi. The batteries on Ryobis don't seem to have quite the same giddyup as others, but for the commited home gamer, or even trades who need an occasional tool, nothing wrong with them at all.
I'd fault the Ryobi recips, don't have the same stroke length or beans compared to Mak, the brushless grinders aren't quite up there with the better brands, but if you're running a cordless grinder like a corded, you're pants on head.
The biggest reason to go for the "pro" brands as a home gamer, it's the speciality stuff. Only just now can you get a Ryobi portaband or die grinder, both of which I use a lot in other brands. Also the right angle Ryobi drill is a fricking meme, buy M12.
How gay do I have to be to use this thing?
Kek, it's babby's first Sawzall from picrel
Go with pic related instead, or step up your game and just get a 15$ angle grinder + one of the chainsaw disks. You won't need any other tools
8in HART chainsaw god damn rips. Want to mount it to the ATV
Ryobi is fine. But Dewalt, Milwaukee, Makita are more powerful and higher quality. I have a Milwaukee m18 fuel impact and it does everything man. Crankshaft pulleys, car chassis bolts, whatever the frick I wanna turn, it turns it. I have a Milwaukee impact driver and I use the frick out of it for any and everything. If your work calls for Ryobi, thats chill. But I like my Milwaukees because I can take apart and put together a car with my 2 m18 fuel impacts
The new brushless Ryobi impacts are basically 1 gen old green coloured Milwaukees and just werk on my machine™
I have the mid torque which I found is plenty for 95% of stuff, Canadian rust be damned. For the last 5% I have THOR
They say that craftsmen don't shop at Harbor Freight, but Craftsman is also cheap shit now so I don't know what to think
Most of their power tools were made by TTi. The same company that makes Ryobi, Milwaukee, and the brown Ridgid tools for Home Depot (red Rigid tools, mostly plumbing stuff, is made by Emerson). Sears had the same arrangement as Home Depot does. Depending on the price point of the tool, it is either a Ryobi or a Milwaukee under the shell.
That said, the Craftsman name was sold to Stanley Black & Decker some years back. They own most of the tool market and probably a dozen brands you'd think we independent companies, including DeWalt. I don't know if they switched suppliers on the Craftsman tools yet but, if they did, I'm better that, depending on the price point, they are either B&D or DeWalt under the Craftsman shell.
It seems every one of craftsman's cordless tools and a cheap brushed and expensive brushless version so if it's the case they they're the same parts inside then the brushed is overpriced garbage and the brushless is a great deal.
Based Makita and Festool not being part of the pozzed brigade.
Shoutout to Bosch for owning Dremel and Diablo too.
Nothing screams NPC like owning a bunch of Packouts.
Can you try saying that again except without the /misc/tard speak?
Makita is decent, but Festool is on its own because nobody wants them.
I have about half of these OP.
About to flip a house with a great upsize. They have served me very well.
I use a combination of blue/pro Bosch tools and Ryobi. I am mostly DIY but take on small jobs here and there. Putting up a large family mountain cabin at the moment.
My blue Bosch stuff includes a corded miter saw w/table, an 18V drill and a 18V precision jigsaw. The basic stuff that needs to work every time.
My Ryobi ownership was limited to a brad nailer (16 ga) and a couple of batteries (2.5+5.0 Ah). Very handy for shooting braids in the ceiling while on a ladder or scaffold without having to pull an air hose through the whole building or drag a compressor up several flights of stairs. And I got the expensive quick charger, not the housewife 8 hour charger.
I have been so impressed with the build quality vs. price, that just recently when I found a Ryobi impact driver on sale at 40% off I bought it on the spot. Already have the batteries and charger so I figured I might as well try it at $60ish.
The first impression is very good. Also came with a 3/8" adapter so it's not limited to small bits only.
Wirh my current pattern of use, I expect it to last several years. I know carpenters who will use nothing but Bosch and Makita, but they also say that Bosch table saw motors burn out if you overload them even slightly and that Makita batteries are shit and nedd to be on an extended warranty arrangement.
So there's probably reasons why diehard pros don't want to go green, but I'm not buying into any of them. And personally I like the colour, too.
Ryobi is the mid grade bargain brand power-tool. they are used by small time contractors and they will last long enough to provide value and then be replaced.
they are built to be good enough with moderate to gentile abuse.
Need a new Dremel, bearings are all fricked in mine. >want to go cordless
>dremel ones only have battery on board the tool making it frickhuge
>ryobi have battery in base unit
>tool looks tiny
Yeah? Nah? Its for car shit
If it's for car shit you should get a die grinder.
Milwaukee has some okay power for a Dremel but the bearings in mine are shit.
Never tried the ryobi. If you can be stationary look for a proxon or some other type where the motor is a big hanging ac motor and the Dremel is just a little collet and handle. Speed control is a nice foot pedal. Harbor freight used to sell a chink brand
>Die grinder
I bought a set of 2 Astro (219), came with 8 bits
I'm about to try them out enlarging a hole in the frame to put on my trailer hitch (side holes)
Should be fun
for the same price you can get a real flex shaft rotary tool