You forgot house Black & Decker
Comment on The four houses dads belong to.
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
House DeWalt: The Builders
House Ryobi: The Slapjobs
House Milwaukee: The wishes they were house DeWalt
House Makita: Quality prevails regardless of how little I use my tools.
Unmentioned:
House Bosch: House Makita but doesn’t like Asians
House Metabo: House Milwaukee but green
House Rigid: wow these are fuckin cheap
House Worx: Tools take a backseat to Yardwork
House Metabo HPT: My wife says they’re great
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 5 months ago
JPJones@startrek.website 5 months ago
DeWalt is owned by Stanley Black&Decker
bfg9k@lemmy.world 5 months ago
House Hilti: Unyielding. Immutable. Eternal.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Rigid are mostly Milwaukee tools but cheaper.
CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ngl, I absolutely love rigid. Most have lifetime guarantees, even on batteries.
Never had to exercise them fortunately.
mihnt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Two different companies. Milwaukee and Ryobi are owned by the same company though.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Incorrect, Ridgid and AEG are also part of TTI.
Choice is an illusion.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 5 months ago
House Bauer/Atlas/Hercules: Life is transient, why does your tool or battery need to last longer than the job?
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Nah Makita is trash, unless you’re talking LXT, which is 36 volt. Most of the Milwaukee stuff comes out on top on the torque test channel on YouTube.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 months ago
House Harbor Freight: Safety squints aren’t enough danger
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
That’s not a house it’s a harbor
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
House Festool: Expensive, but I shift the cost to my clients.
TheControlled@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Milwaukee is better than DeWalt in literally every category. Come at me.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was browsing the tool section at a Home Depot once a couple of years ago when a very attractive young woman came up to me and started asking me about my project. I’m not so dense that I thought she was hitting on me, but I couldn’t figure out her angle and I thought maybe she was a prostitute or something. Turns out she was a Milwaukee sales rep and she was trying to encourage people (men, rather) to buy some Milwaukee cordless tools.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So, technically not a prostitute.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Only if you go for the strict definition.
Any exchange of labour for money under an indentured system where you are under constant violent threat of homelessness, destitution, starvation, and even death if you don’t work, is a certain type of prostitution born of desperation.
TL;DR: most of us whose paycheques are signed by someone else are labour prostitutes.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I’ve got AEG, which is basically yellow Milwaukee anyway.
ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I’ve used dewalt professionally for many years. My buddies who use Milwaukee are always borrowing my stuff. I’ll leave it at that.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeap, switched from Milwaukee from DeWalt recently. The tool quality is pretty much the same, but the Milwaukee battery and chargers are a lot nicer.
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
My construction companion runs Milwaukee. As I stated in a different comment, he’s had several drills and batteries blow in about three years. This isn’t to say they’re not a great brand, but that’s too many lemons for the premium they charge for my taste. seems like their biggest downfall is the plastic shells they use, especially on batteries. Those little power check buttons break right quick, and the rubber over moulding doesn’t deal with grease well.
I run Metabo HPT, and I abuse the hell out of them. Drilling inch holes 12" deep in concrete for garage anchors, running all the batteries in sub zero and 100+ temps, notching studs until the multi tool is too hot to hold. Never had a failure in 6 years. Even my original batteries still work as well as the new. A slick bonus I found out being a compulsive tinkerer, the batteries that they sell as 18v 3ah are actually 24v 5ah. I always wondered why they lasted so long before I ripped a few apart. Samsung cells as well.
Cort@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Except battery life in my experience.
clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
While I agree with you on most accounts, Milwaukee drills have cheap switches on them, they’re usually the first to hang to go. The chucks seem kinda cheap too, but honestly that’s not enough for me to switch teams, I’m married to Milwaukee, and the divorce would just be too damn expensive at this point.