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Originally Posted by ichitaka05
Anyone bought anything interesting for Black Friday or Cyber Monday? I kinda wanted cordless leaf blower, but there weren't any good ones on sale. Wanted Diode Dynamics' new fog lights cuz they were 20% off... but after much debate (in my head), I decided not to buy it.
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Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG
My brother and our friend are both contractors. They use this one from Milwaukee.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwauke...4-20/302752040
It is more powerful then the small handheld Stihl that they were using to blow off roofs/decking during jobs. For real heavy work you can't beat a backpack blower though. I used it on a couple roofing jobs I helped them on and was pretty surprised how good it was. I wasn't expecting much. |
i have that one. i usually just use it to clear the sidewalks after mowing. i also have the weed trimmer. they both work as i need.
but i have milwaukee because i use milwaukee for work, so i already had the batteries, which made it harder to justify any other brand.
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Originally Posted by ls1ac
I have tried several and found Ryobi to work as well as any, and their tools (brushless) have worked well. I have both 18v and 40v at different locations and not much difference in performance of the blowers.
I also have chain saws and pole saws for both voltages and there the difference is huge.
Oh, and shop tools.
I gave up on Milwaukee, Ridgid, and Dewalt.
It turned out the Chinese company that is contracted to make many other brands is the one making Ryobi, I kind of figured they are taking what is best of the others and using it.
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of the few that i have met that use ryobi tools, i've never heard a complaint. they're all quite happy with them. i've recommended them to a few people. but the fisher-price looks have been hard for most people to overcome.
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Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG
Talking to a lot of my contractor buddies, they prefer Milwaukee. Mostly because the batteries are really good. I like the tool range of Milwaukee so that is what I use personally.
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anything lithium is great at this point. the main complaint with most tool brands of the past were the nimh batteries. i bought into milwaukee specifically because of the tool range. i can do a ton of different things with the 2 batteries!