Recommendations, please - Half inch hammer drill

[travis potter]

I burned up my old HD one day and had to have a new one now HF was close so I bought one It Has a LOT less power than my old one. I use it for chipping morter and it is much slower than my old on. I will not buy the HF HD I use most of there other tools and have no problems with them.

 

[crazyal]

I don't mind buying HF but they aren't close to me and shipping things back just sucks.

 

[Redneck in training]

If this is just for occasional use, then I don't have a specific recommendation, I have a 1/2" milwaukee hammer drill, it's pretty decent but I never use it anymore.

I had a few jobs where the milwaukee wouldn't cut it so I started using a Hilti sds drive. for commercial use there is no comparison. Only problem is they are ridiculously expensive. I got mine for a steal though.

Never found a concrete or block it wouldn't drill, with the milwaukee there were some super hard materials it would not drill.

Good luck, JB

I second Hilti. We had one at work that got abused a lot but never failed. We also liked Bosch Cobra for bigger holes or as a jackhammer (The roatation can be turned off on the big models).

 

[Zxyrthe]

Either out of guilt, desperation or both, my brother made the decision for me. He ran up to the hardware store and picked up a 7amp Bosch on sale for about $80.

Now I just have to get my ladder back . . .

 

[JB4310]

Either out of guilt, desperation or both, my brother made the decision for me. He ran up to the hardware store and picked up a 7amp Bosch on sale for about $80.

Now I just have to get my ladder back . . .

:laughing::laughing:

JB

 

[Carl_NH]

I got this same Bosch model on ebay 3 years ago - Bosch 11224VSR 7/8" SDS Rotary Hammer Drill , Bulldog | eBay mine included a box of bits too! for $96 and it drills granite and concrete with ease..

It doesnt get heavy use but when I do use it it makes short work of the job. A contractor friend has a industrial Makita model that is nice too but more $$ I think.

 

[Soundguy]

I don't mind buying HF but they aren't close to me and shipping things back just sucks.

i only buy local as well. once you do shipping, you sometimes are more than half way there to a name brand tool sometimes. itf I'm over half way there might as well go the distance.

I especially like HF tools in bad places where the tool may get abused or damaged... or especially if it needs to be modified.

no way I'm torching on my good craftsman wrenches to make stubby's or bent ones.. but a 8$ HF set.. sure!

soundguy

 

[crazyal]

i only buy local as well. once you do shipping, you sometimes are more than half way there to a name brand tool sometimes. itf I'm over half way there might as well go the distance.

I especially like HF tools in bad places where the tool may get abused or damaged... or especially if it needs to be modified.

no way I'm torching on my good craftsman wrenches to make stubby's or bent ones.. but a 8$ HF set.. sure!

soundguy

:laughing: I bet I have a tool boxes worth of wrenches and screw drivers that are either bent, cut down or ground thin for those "one time only" uses. I thought I was the only one to do it, had to laugh when you said you did it too. :laughing:

 

[Soundguy]

yep.. have a custom bent wrench that only fits a ford N relief valve without taking the pto shaft out.. it has plenty of 1-use only brothers and sisters too..

special snap ring screwdriver for taking the split rings off ford pto shaft bearing carrier assemblies.. etc..

soundguy

 

[2manyrocks]

hand tools, yes. Electric motor tools--taking your chances.

Picked up a set of India made wrenches at TSC on clearance for about less than HF. :thumbsup:

Shocked that a Bosch hammer drill would be on sale for $80.

What's left of your ladder is probably sitting in the middle of the interstate somewhere. That's where everybody else looses theirs.