I think top tier is Hilti (Swiss) , expensive of course.
But Bosch, Metabo and Festool are reall good choices ayway.
Hilti is manufactured in several countries however its place of origin and HQ is in Liechtenstein.
Hilti would be up there with Festool, Fein and Mafell but they’re high end high price.
I thought that was mini-me
Bosch also funds a company helping Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_Stiftung
Love their dishwashers here in Canada. Solid company it seems.
man… all my power tools are Milwaukee since there were some crazy sales when I was starting the collection.
I wonder where they’re from
Green Bay
My Makita tools were made in Romania. Does that count?
Makita is Japanese, but they make stuff where it’s cheaper for them. Same with many other brands that might be German, but made in Romania, Poland or ultimately China. Usually lower end products where high end ones tend to be made in Germany.
Huh, I just assumed they displayed Bosch and Makita
Never saw any other company here lol
Parkside is the brand from Lidl. Not great, not terrible.
From what I’ve heard they got worse recently
Depends in what you expect. I have a cheap and cheerful Makita battery drill that cost 65 Euros at the local DIY store. Recently, Lidl had a Parkside 20V cheap and cheerful for 20 Euros that has pretty much the same specs as my Makita, plus a basic impact drill functionality, so I bought it out of curiosity. They feel similar and do the same job, with the Makita batteries costing more than twice as much as their Parkside counterparts. Sure, I could get all the spare parts for the Makita if need be, but the Parkside with the 3 year warranty is definitely better value all things considered. My girlfriend had a 40€ Parkside hammer drill die a sudden death, but they replaced it within a week. I appreciate good quality tools and am willing to pay the corresponding price, but for something that gets used once or twice per year? I’d get a Parkside.
Parkside warranty was impressively good when I needed to use it.
They happily replaced the tool by manufacture date alone, which was great when the receipt was long gone.
Is parkside really the only other option to put next to Bosch? I mean, I love the middle isle as much as the next guy, Lidl own brand seems a stretch
Idk, Parkside is solid, it’s impressive value. It’s inexpensive, but not cheap
Festool, Einhell
Fein (GER), Hilti (swiss)
Hilti is from Liechtenstein, not Swiss. General known as a great company that respects its employees though.
ah yeah, right. sry Liechtensteiners!!
Feel free to update the meme with another brand and give a link, I’ll update the post!
Festool and Metabo are both German, Wadkin is British.
Festool is great if you’re literally made of money.
Hoping one day we get a consumer grade domino, but that’s probably a pipe dream.
Or if you have to use that thing to make you money.
Yeah I considered adding that originally but felt it was detrimental to the impact of the joke.
Decided to get the metabo battery powered tools because they’re the only ones that offer an adapter to plug the tools directly (useful for stuff that stays in the shop most of the time)
Zero ragrets! They’re very good!
I’m sorry, but for this stuff I’m team Makita.
Yeah you can’t just change brands. It’s too expensive. You get the battery. You are locked into that ecosystem. Simple as that.
You can get adapters but yes it doesn’t cure anything but waste to get rid of functioning tools
That’s why I just have 5 different chargers and some adapters ready to go for whatever tool is the best one.
This is why I prefer wired tools when practical.
I can’t justify buying the one brand I have batteries for when the other really good brand has something good on sale.Obviously won’t get a wired drill, but my angle grinder and miter are both 230V. I hate locked ecosystems
It’s why Bosch’s Power4All is a bit frustrating.
Shared batteries…with about 4 manufacturers…and not on the Bosch’s professional tools.
Don’t get me wrong, I still achieve a lot with my Bosch green tools. And my Flymo ones on the same battery.
But it’s a real shame more mfgs weren’t involved.
Having the portability is really really nice.
Bosch, Hilti, Einhell, Metabo, KWB, Iskra, Sheppach, all European.
Hikoki and Makita are Japanese.
TIL Hilti is Liechtensteiner
TLDR: out of all of these the only real european companies are:
- Bosch (group)
- TTS tooltechnic systems (group)
- Fein (independent)
- Hilti (independent)
And makita from Japan and one of the only independent manufacturers left, as well as Fein and Hilti.
For some reason, I always thought Ryobi was Japanese.
Guess I’m switching to Bosch.
Ryobi tools was japanense that was purchase by a hong kong company in the early 2000’s… they also own Milwaukee.
in the early 2000s*
Hikoki (formerly Hitachi) is Japanese.
Thanks, added to the OP
Yeah I’m going Japanese.
Yea makita all the way. By far the best
You think you’re turning Japanese?
I really think so.
If only you could order parkside all year around. Currently I have to wait for the product that I want to buy, to randomly appear in one of my local Lidl stores and then rush to hope to get one before they sell out. It’s not a real alternative
I dunno how the lidl is over where you’re at, but here they have a web shop where they sell their parkside tools.
This is my go to online toolshop now. Basically renovated my entire house with Parkside stuff. Can recommend. 5/7 perfect score.
Probably the tool brand with the best bang-for-buck ratio. They tend to not be the most great feeling tools, but they sure work well for the price.
Are you in Germany?
Here in Denmark they just link to Lidl
To my knowledge, Parkside and Bosch are mostly manufactured in China. Parkside is a name brand for Lidl, from Grizzly Tools.
Parkside is shity
Bosch is the way
My vacuum cleaner and drill are Bosch products. Good quality.
