5mo ago

I never touched a hammer, maybe it's time

who owns what tool brands

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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.
Festool and Metabo are both German, Wadkin is British.
- Festool is great if you're literally made of money.
  
  Or if you have to use that thing to make you money.
  
  Hoping one day we get a consumer grade domino, but that's probably a pipe dream.
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.
  
  That's why I just have 5 different chargers and some adapters ready to go for whatever tool is the best one.
  
  You can get adapters but yes it doesn't cure anything but waste to get rid of functioning tools
  
  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
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.
- Feel free to update the meme with another brand and give a link, I'll update the post!
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.
Bosch, Hilti, Einhell, Metabo, KWB, Iskra, Sheppach, all European.
Hikoki and Makita are Japanese.
- TIL Hilti is Liechtensteiner
who owns what tool brands
- 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.
  
  Einhell (also own Ozito) is also on its own, headquartered in Germany. Mostly made in China. But they are moving battery production to Hungary. Also planning to build tools in other Asian countries to be less dependent on China.
  Metabo and Hikoki are also a company. Don't know if its based in Japan.
- 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.
  
  Hikoki (formerly Hitachi) is Japanese.
- Thanks, added to the OP
- Impressive modlog for 27 days: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=18409753
  
  All events are from .ml, and therefore can't be seriously considered as legitimate mod actions.
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
To my knowledge, Parkside and Bosch are mostly manufactured in China. Parkside is a name brand for Lidl, from Grizzly Tools.
- My Bosch Professional 12V drills are made in Malaysia.
Bosch is European?
TIL
Vonroc is a Dutch-designed powertool brand, though their manufacturing does take place in China.
- Huh, never knew they were Dutch designed
I thought that was mini-me
This makes me randy, baby, yeah!
My vacuum cleaner and drill are Bosch products. Good quality.
I never complained about bosch, but are Parkside tools any good?
- Parkside is single-use landfill generating crap
- They're ok in a pinch. Usually very cheap. It's the lidl brand.
I have a deep need for that pic of Dr Trump and Mini E

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