What about the tribes out in the wild? The Festools, Mafells and Hiltis?
The four houses dads belong to.
Submitted 10 months ago by GarrettBird@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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sagrotan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 10 months ago
Festool is that fancy all girls school where everything is fancy and clean.
Mafells is that Bulgarian school with Crom
littlecolt@lemm.ee 10 months ago
How dare they ignore the fifth and oldest house, House Craftsman
team_gold@lemmy.world 10 months ago
For those who hate being stuck with one brand because the batteries are so expensive you can buy adapters to convert between them. For instance I use a rigid battery with a ryobi tool etc and it works great! I’ve seen adapters for working between most of the brands since almost all the tools are 18V. I’ve seen ones that jump between lower voltages and higher ones which is a bit sketchier but are likely fine as well. www.google.com/search?q=power+tool+battery+adapte…
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You do lose power through those, so they’re not great for high power tools. Torque Test Channel has done quite a few videos on this.
supermario182@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So DeWalt is Gryffindor right?
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 10 months ago
hufflepuff
supermario182@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I would argue Ryobi is the Hufflepuff of these four.
Cheems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is Milwaukee ravenclaw or Slytherin?
Ryobi is 100% Hufflepuff
supermario182@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Milwaukee as raven claw and Makita as Slytherin seems fitting
esc27@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve been pretty happy with the Ryobi 18 and 40 volt stuff. If I ever need anything fancier I’ll probably start investing in milwaukee. At some point I plan to invest into a tool storage system and milwaukee may win that decision…
For corded stuff, brand loyalty isn’t that useful. I have a dewalt portable/job site table saw I really like.
My jigsaw and circular saw are skil, so I could probably stand to upgrade, but they work well enough.
Just bought a kobalt powered screwdriver that uses usbc to charge and seems fine for household use (when a drill driver is not needed)
Still have an old dewalt drill on a dead battery platform that refuses to die.
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
If you’re looking for a solid storage system, check out toughbuilt or flex. As someone with the rare experience in several different mobile tool chests, flex and toughbuilt kick the hell out of the packout. I run the toughbuilt stacktech myself, and it’s got everything I could have hoped for. Tough as hell, metal corners, waterproof, no fumbling to lock or unlock pieces as they connect automatically, and they’re a good bit cheaper to boot.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No love for Porter-Cable?
Boooooo.
lemming741@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re being replaced by the zombie corpse of craftsman
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Goblin magic is powerful but kept from the civilized world.
BaqTraq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
House Makita brings honor to our projects with powerful Nippon steel.
Seriously though, back when I worked for a small construction outfit. There were two teams of contractors. One vietnamese, the other Bosnian. They all bought used Makita tools.
I had no idea there even was a market for used tools back then. But it was enough to sell me on them myself. But man, are they pricier.
Wogi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have hundreds of dollars in DeWalt batteries and it’s too late to turn back now. Give her two chooches for me brothers, I am a fallen warrior.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Shit, I bought into the makita system but luckily I’m not a dad. I have much more time to spend with my tools.
S_204@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Team Blue as well. Now that I’ve got kids my projects are much more repair/renovation oriented than new build LoL.
DarthBueller@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Disappointed metabo isnt represented. Used to be hitachi? I’ve got a pneumatic brad nailer from them and it’s both wondrous and affordable.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 10 months ago
My Hitachi miter saw is great, there’s little to no play or flex I liked it better than my dewalt that got stolen
slingstone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is House Craftsman like the Reynes of Castemere or something?
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
They’re house Tyrell. They used to be great, then they fell apart, now they’re trying to come back.
sleepdrifter@startrek.website 10 months ago
I’m scared to mention Kobalt in here
Cheems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nearly every single kobalt tool I’ve had has broken or just stopped so quickly. They are such a small step above harbor freight that it isn’t worth my time anymore.
sleepdrifter@startrek.website 10 months ago
The power drill my dad got me a decade ago still works, and locked me in… I have done some med-duty ranch work with it and it still drills
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’ve goy thay Kobalt router table, and it’s pretty good.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I dream of owning Kobalt tools one day as I use my Harbor Freight cheapies.
Kittenstix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a plumber milwaukee is where it’s at, only brand that has a cordless snake/augur, air snake, compact propress, expansion pex and copper cutter tools.
CallMeDave@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good news everyone! Apparently, EU went for it youtu.be/eKOvXigyrXA?si=XiTMEQfNU1XmF2LQ
CallMeDave@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What about us who only have one accurate drill to assemble and mount IKEA furniture and then buy everything else corded as we will use it once in 2 years or maybe never, but we want to have it as we’re thinking about having a small shed one day so we can finally make those 5 shelves for pantry and 2 cubic meters of storage space in the loft/garage?
Kefass@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I am from the Metabo house. Its a German company I used to work for. Pretty decent gear. They have a deal with a lot of smaller, specialised brands to share their battery system.
Sorgan71@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Idk what its called but if my daughter comes home with a dude who prefers anything other than those neon tools I’m sending him home.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I want a complete DeWalt set and the time at home enough to justify using each and every tool until it does from usage
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 10 months ago
My wife says I can only buy a tool if I need it for a project, so now I have to many plans for projects and not enough time to do them.
Gonroz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kobalt gang 😎
erte@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have a mishmash thanks to some battery adapters I found on Amazon. I swap between Dewalt, and two Milwaukee ecosystems seamlessly
funkajunk@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Milwaukee = Gryffindor DeWalt = Ravenclaw Makita = Hufflepuff Ryobi = Slytherin
soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Colours match but that’s about it. This doesn’t match the house traits even one little bit
primetime00@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Remember Wen…
limelight79@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I have a Wen metal shear tool…it’s AMAZING. Slices through sheet aluminum and steel like they’re butter.
SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I think I have a pancake air compressor from Wen. It was the cheapest I could find on Amazon and the gauges are broken from shipping but it does work so…
limelight79@lemm.ee 10 months ago
DeWalt for drills, etc… I used to work in a hardware store (a small town store, not a Lowes/HD big box place) and sold DeWalt, so that’s what I gravitated toward when I was buying tools for myself.
But for yard tools, 40v Ryobi.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
…snap-on?
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Let’s get you back to the home
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
I think it might be because I fix cars more than houses, and I’m in my 20s.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m pretty satisfied with Hart which is a Walmart brand. Keeping my fingers crossed, but no issues so far after a couple years.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
The same company that makes Ryobi and Milwaukee tools also makes Hart.**
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There is a canadian Youtuber that I stopped watching because he turned out to be a Canuck Trumper type, but he did a lot of videos where he broke down power tools with various price points and showed why they cost what they cost and where manufacturers do or don’t cut corners. Interesting stuff.
stoy@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
My dad rejected those answers, instead, he chose something different, he chose… Festool!
nxdefiant@startrek.website 10 months ago
I guess when you have Malfoy money you can afford to go full death eater.
HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
FYI there are adaptors for all of these batteries so you’re not actually stuck. I got one on Amazon
Voyajer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just make sure whatever tool/battery combo you end up using still some sort of battery protection. Most brands have it in the tool but a few have it in the battery.
Steve@startrek.website 10 months ago
I was sorted long before my kids were born
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’m not a dad, and I’m pretty heavily bought into SB&D’s Craftsman V20 ecosystem. Some of them are clearly discount DeWalt, especially the brushless tools.
Corded tools, I have no loyalty. My table saw and planer are DeWalt, my drill press and jointer are Wen, I’ve got a Kobalt router table, and so on.
telllos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
House: I have no idea how to be handy with tools
NotSoCoolWhip@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You typed this on a device that would allow you to learn anything, including tool use, and instead you chose to use that time to publicly claim your own ineptitude. This statement does not come from a place of disdain, but from a lack of understanding of why people often choose not to use the collective human consciousness as a tool to better their situation by learning skills and applying them. The dude who fixed your toilet isn’t any different than you, except he knows how to do something you don’t. With internet you can change that with a few Google searches.