Maybe you should consider a road trip over the border so you can buy your tools in the US.
You’ll do fine with Dewalt. I have a relative who is a home remodeling contractor, and he swears by Dewalt. Milwaukee is also popular among builders. I have a Milwaukee impact tool, 18V I believe, and it’s very impressive, but I’m a home Mr. Fixit, not a professional.
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Now that we,ve gone south with the discussion. Sorry folks but I just would not buy a craftsman at this point. For woodworking of course I have mainly dewalt. Planer, hand planer, etc. plus torque wrench, buffer, etc. and they all work fine. I also favored porter cable for router, drill, etc. I’ve got a Bosch router too strictly for my router table. My second one at close to $200 each. Can’t say I’m thrilled with them. Needed something done fast with the router table and after a year it was dead. Just went and got a duplicate and threw the old one away. Fir nailers I only use bostich. For outside battery stuff like the pole saw I use b and d mainly because I have multiple batteries. Got a drill too that went south so got another b and d because of the batteries. And I have multiple air tools, some good, some junk. I actually have started throwing some of my air tools out that I haven’t used for years, but I’m hanging on to my body file. Oh yeah I bought a bistich pancake compressor mainly for a roofing project and really like that as a supplement to my other one. Hobart welder same as miller but the consumer grade, and Lincoln tomb stone. I’ve just got too much stuff. I did buy the harbor hydraulic press and actually it works surprisingly well with a few upgrades. I used to rent stuff but the prices are high enough now you might just as well buy the tool plus I’d buy a box of nails and the next time they had switched nailers.
Thanks for the tool discussion anyway. Like said don’t sell my tools for what I told my wife I paid.
So much great advice, so many great tools to choose from… once you start working somewhere and you have to leave your tools at your job you will want to protect your investment. You will want to keep and never lose them; so be sure to get a case hardened chain that will wrap all the way around you tool box, top to bottom, not around the sides (or waist…). You want to make sure someone cannot pop the top draw and then gain access to all the other draws. And you need a second chain that chains the tool box to an immovable object. If the business is broken into, tools are often the first thing to get taken.
I basically got the DeWalt impact driver kit in the atomic compact series with a bag, battery, and charger for $156 Canadian after tax. I don’t necessarily need the drill. I think I’m gonna go with DeWalt as my brand of choice for my power tools. I found out they are under the same umbrella company as Mac Tools and that’s a reputable brand.
Craftsman tools are now manufactured by Stanley Black and Decker. SBD power tool brands include Craftsman, Porter Cable, Black and Decker, and DeWalt. Their industrial/automotive specific brands include Proto, Blackhawk, Sidchrome, and Mac Tools. My Craftsman tools are still working well after 50 years.
I went with DeWalt and like mentioned above I might consider doing Mac Tools for another other power tools that i may need maybe a big boy brushless impact wrench when the time comes of course. My little husky air impact wrench will work for now
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