Power Tool Set

Doing construction in the summers during high school and college we mainly used Dewalt

I don't know a whole lot about the other brands but they seemed to do pretty well. When you use them all day 5-6 days a week, they will f up but that is to be expected

I do carpenter work and you cant beat makita

Cant go wrong with dewalt or Mikata.

Watch amazon, I was looking for new dewalt 18volt batteries for my kit and ended up picking up a new 4 tool combo kit for $189 with two batteries when two batteries by themselves were $109

I have both Makita and Dewalt. Both are good, but I very much prefer the Makita Lithium Ion because it charges in only 15 minutes

battery powered impact?? not going with air?

20V W/ Hammer

I have this one and now it comes with a free tool at Home Depot. (I think it's only in store and I saw the deal at Denham Springs)

We are building a fence over the week and the impact is ripping through all of them. I can place 4 screws in the same amount of time as my buddy with the drill only gets 2.

The batteries easily last all day. They charge very quickly (not as fast as Makita, but still around 30 minutes)

All of the major brands are very even on reliability and function. I prefer Makita and DeWalt because of the value. Milwaukee is a little expensive for the same level of performance.

If you check out Makita's website, you can find some deals.

When I was looking the top choices were
Dewalt DCD985
LXT218
Milwaukee M18

The DeWalt and Makita were dead even when I was researching. I only chose the DeWalt because it was on sale when I found it in store. The Milwaukee couldn't keep up on the power scale compared to the other two.

If you like Rigid just buy Ryobi instead. It has the same parts inside. I bought the Ryobi when I was on a jobsite with a high theft rate.

Dewalt is a good tool, just need to find them on sale so it's worth it. They are a solid 20% higher than other brands.

I have been buying Makita and Milwaukee for over 20 yrs. No complaints on either.

Whatever you buy get the extended warranties if you can. Good for everything but theft.

We have 35 sets of the Mikita LXT218 at work. These are being used for 5 to 8 hours a day and we have only had 4 fail. All but one of the failures was operator abuse. We were so impressed with these that most of the us bought sets for home use as well. The set is on sale at Amazon for $279 with Prime shipping. If you have access to Grainger or Fastenal, they usually run deals on these sets regularly. We switched from the Dewalt 14.4v to the Makita 18v Lithium. We are almost through year 2 with the tools and have only had one battery go bad as well.

I have used my set to put up 110' of 6' privacy fence without a complaint. Hope that helps. Of course, this is just IMO.

I'll go through the M12 list:

bandsaw
regular drill
hammer drill
right angle drill
PEX tool(not like you'd need that)
jackets/sweatshirts/handwarmers
1/4 and 3/8 impact wrenches
impact drivers
1/4 and 3/8 ratchet
palm nailer
dremel tool
copper snips
radio
multiple lights
rotary hammer drills
one of those multi-tools that cuts grout and under door trim
sawzall
jigsaw
random tubing snips


Like I said though, there is also a bigger battery you can use if you need more power. The smaller ones have worked just fine for me though, and are lighter