All my tools were recently thrown away (just a hodgepodge of cheap/free shit I acquired over the years) and I have a $2k budget to resupply. I just spent $1k at Home Depot on various Makita tools, but think I'm going to return everything, save for the free batteries. Picrel looks like a good deal, but honestly I don't have any projects lined up atm just feel a bit naked without power tools. Should I wait til holiday season? Any advice on good deals rn?
If I could swap the flashlight for a multitool I'd be stoked, and maybe upgrade to a less gay skillz. Also I'm sorta considering a compact line up, just because I don't have any projects immediately lined up.
But I also keep reading that Milwaukee is best for automative and electrical work, which is relevant to the projects I do take on.
this is absolutely the case, particularly with Milwaukee's automotive lineup which Makita can't even touch
Care to site specific examples? I co-manage a farm, so there's of course some automotive stuff involved. I'm also 'the electrical guy' despite being electrically moronic, but hey. So Milwaukee seems appropriate, but at the same time I have no immediate projects lined up, I just don't like feeling tool-less rn.
I'm also looking for non-power tool recommendations. Let's just assume I have nothing right now, aside from a soldering iron and pancake compressor.
If you're doing electrical for your farm, Klein (rightfully) has the corner on the market for electrician hand tools. They're basically synonymous with lineman's pliers, but the rest of their grabbies and snippies set the bar quite high.
Man, I don't know what kind of farming you do, but Milwaukee's electric grease gun and inflator would make me buy into their batteries alone.
The electric grease gun is the only one I have found that I like, and if you need to take the track off of a skid steer in the field, it will save your wrists over pumping manually. The gearbox is a little weak, but to me its still worth it.
The inflator is also great if you have something like a hay rake with a lot of tiny tires. I actually used it yesterday, if I didn't have it I would have had to make the call between returning to the machine shed or running with a tire that was cupping
For stuff like impacts, drills and grinders I'm fine with harbor freight stuff, but that grease gun especially has saved me an incredible amount if time.
>unironically getting a home depot card and buying new, full priced tools at the most expensive of the box stores
i'm going to return them and keep the batteries, i just wanted to check them out. a free $279, which that sports gambling israeli degenerate you posted would surely respect
Another reason I was looking at makita was that other guy uses them, and I’ve always liked them. But I started to think maybe it’s better to be on a different ecosystem so we’re not swapping batteries or tools and having them accidentally get stolen, or thinking they were
really hard to argue with this deal
either drop 2k on two or three milcuckee tools or get a solid starter pack for less than half of your budge
>cryobi
no
>pooryobi
nobody tell them
>"No no no, you dont understand. Its actually a Maserati! Look up the parent company Stellantis!"
This is largely why I bought into makita, plus japs make good stuff. But the arguements for Milwaukee are strong, like the other talking about a grease gun
>This is largely why I bought into makita
Makita is still publicly traded, so you didnt even accomplish anything.
They just slap Makita name on their high end, middle, and low end, their export tools and domestic only line of tools while still being beholden to stockholders.
Fair point, luckily I only bought into them today and will be returning what I bought anyway.
man, you Burgers have it easy
i recently spent over 1500€ on blue Bosch impact, angle grinder, perforator and saw and 4 8Ah batteries
I am a serious DIYer i went with Milwaukee mainly because of their impacts. I bought a 1/2" and 3.8" fuel and use them all the time. And once you invest in something with batteries you want your tools to all be able to use the same battery pack. I slowly accumulated my tools by needing them to perform various jobs. My Sawzall probably sees the most work followed by the 1/2" impact.
Milwaukees M12 line kicks ass, with all sorts of small random useful tools. No other 12v line comes even close.
Can that line even drill a screw through a 2x4, or cut one with the circular saw?
>or cut one with the circular saw?
I have a M18 Fuel circular saw and it cuts noticeably slower than a corded saw. It is handy when you need it tho.
Well yes, sure. But you buy into the M12 for the oddball random tools, not for a standard circular saw or drill.
bruh i can put 1/2 holes in 1/2 plate steel with my m12 drill
it will put a deck screw into a 2x4 and strip it out completely until its just a hole
>drill a screw
Yes, but slower than 18V
>cut a 2x4
Not really
12V is supplemental. The M12 line is sweet, but you should get on the appropriate full size 18V tools first. Anybody who shills M12 as the first/only cordless setup is a poorgay who should’ve bought Black & Decker but really wanted to post pics of their Milwaukee on Reddit like the cool kids.
>electrical hand tools
Everything: Klein, Ideal to a lesser extent
Pliers: channellock, knipex
Screw- and nut-drivera: wera and wiha
Meters: fluke
I like to mix it up with brands. Majority of my power tools are DeWalt and virtually all my hand tools are Milwaukee. Exception being I have a Milwaukee M12 6" hatchet/chainsaw and M12 Circular saw.
buy what you need when you need
sad to see every board has insufferable tripgays