Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[5030]

Have the older version as well and it works just fine. MSC sells Lennox pre welded loops for metal cutting.

Mine is out in the shop but I think it's a Chicago Electric.

 

[MossRoad]

I have this little cement mixer. I bought it 20 years ago. Haven't used it for 18 years. Pulled it out today and ran 36 - 60# bags of cement through it 2 at a time for footings. Worked OK. I think it was $129 back when I bought it.

3-1/2 Cubic Ft. Cement Mixer

 

[5030]

Basically last forever Mossy, unless you forget to clean out the drum...... Solidified concrete don't come out very well, if at all.... If you shoot a lot and reload a lot, they also make a dandy brass tumbler.

 

[Alan W.]

the deep cut bandsaw is 89 bucks now... that's very tempting. you guys approve of that tool? ill get a good blade.

First one I had smoked in the first five minutes. Second one has been running fine for a couple of years and it still has the original “wood” blade that cuts steel well.
Im sure a high quality metal blade may do better but this one is still workin.

 

[Alan W.]

Noticed a lot of bare shelves at HF today. Buddy of mine said the one he frequents has not been restocked on a lot of items.

 

[stuckmotor]

I have a few of the Harbor Freight 4 1/2" grinders, I keep differnt discs and wire brushes on them so it is just pick it up and go.
When I have to do some really serious grind i also have a 9" Milwaukee that resides under my work bench a heavy old beast of a grinder
that will give you a workout just manhandling it around. I would guess that it may get a couple of hours use a year compared to most likely over 100 hours on the small ones.
The small HF ones have held up almost as good as the name brand small ones over the years.

I like the feel and balance of the $9.++ grinders better than any they sell. While working on a big project, I tried to figure how many I'd need so that the first that got hot would be cool by the time the last one was hot.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I have this little cement mixer. I bought it 20 years ago. Haven't used it for 18 years. Pulled it out today and ran 36 - 60# bags of cement through it 2 at a time for footings. Worked OK. I think it was $129 back when I bought it.

3-1/2 Cubic Ft. Cement Mixer

I modified mine. I had an old pull type fertilizer spreader that I was scrapping. Made a 5/8 axel and used the bigger wheels / tires. It's really easy to move around now.

 

[Travelover]

I modified mine. I had an old pull type fertilizer spreader that I was scrapping. Made a 5/8 axel and used the bigger wheels / tires. It's really easy to move around now.

Off road model.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Off road model.

Yeah .. but still just 2WD.

 

[ronjhall]

Have the older version as well and it works just fine. MSC sells Lennox pre welded loops for metal cutting.

Mine is out in the shop but I think it's a Chicago Electric.

I have the Bauer saw. Still using original blade. When purchasing new blades. Make sure you get the .025 blades. There have been reports of problems with .020 blades. This is what I bought in 18 and 14 TPI.