Tools & equipment that are fantastic.

[scootr]

Worked as a roofer's helper one summer when I was a teenager. We had to repair a few slate roofs. Always kinda scary since those roofs were steep. Didn't have the modern safety gear back then they do today...the guy I worked with's "safety harness" was a rope knotted under his armpits with me on the other side of the peak holding it.

Reminds me of an old Readers Digest story. Guy working on his roof decided it would be best to tie himself off to something solid in case he fell. Looking around he found nothing to tie to so he tossed the rope over the house and tied it to the bumper on the car.
I guess he failed to tell his wife of his safety plan because when she noticed she was missing an ingredient for her baking and jumped in the car to run to the store. She backed out of the drive pulling her husband up the roof, then down & off the other side and halfway across the yard before she saw him.
That's when the fight started

 

[scootr]

Nice....

That is the one thing that has always drove me nuts....is why we cannot standardize batteries and voltages.

We have with alot of batteries. AA, AAA, C, D-cell, 9-volt.

Buy a maglight, or streamlight, or whatever brand it dont matter. You can run energizer, duracell, or dollar store house brand batteries. Dont matter.

Blows my mind why we have to have proprietary batteries and chargers for cordless tools 3-decades after they really started becoming popular.

That's why I have mostly Ryobi tools. I started collecting them when 18v was the thing. Now my buddies have slimmer stronger 20v Dewalt but at 70 yrs I'm not going to change for as little as I use them now.

 

[jyoutz]

Reminds me of an old Readers Digest story. Guy working on his roof decided it would be best to tie off to something solid in case he fell. Looking around he found nothing to tie to so he tossed the rope over the house and tied to bumper on the car.
I guess he failed to tell his wife of his ingenious safety plan because she noticed she was missing an ingredient for her baking and jumped in the car to run to the store. Back out of the drive she pulled her husband up the roof, down & off the other side and halfway across the yard before she saw him.

Ouch!!!

 

[JethroB]

Nice....

That is the one thing that has always drove me nuts....is why we cannot standardize batteries and voltages.

We have with alot of batteries. AA, AAA, C, D-cell, 9-volt.

Buy a maglight, or streamlight, or whatever brand it dont matter. You can run energizer, duracell, or dollar store house brand batteries. Dont matter.

Blows my mind why we have to have proprietary batteries and chargers for cordless tools 3-decades after they really started becoming popular.

I feel the same about electronic gadgets charging cords/cables. And various charging adapter port configurations. I believe I heard that in Europe they forced standards on manufacturers.

USB
USB C
MICRO USB
LIGHTENING

 

[ArlyA]

Ryobi tools are a discount line. I've had some.

 

[Oaktree]

Ryobi tools are a discount line. I've had some.

Not sure what you mean by "discount line". Not pro grade to be sure, but I'd put them in the "premium homeowner" category, certainly better than dept store or HF brands. The ones I've got have stood up well.

 

[Hay Dude]

Some people have no ability to see the world through the other guys brand preference.

 

[Gator6x4]

Some people have no ability to see the world through the other guys brand preference.

That tunnel vision is not restricted solely to brand preference.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

I like Ryobi for the VAST variety of 18v tools they have. You name it they have it. No they are not the best, but for lots of purposes they are completely adequate. I also have RIGID 18v tools and I have a battery adapter that allows me to use my Rigid batteries on my Ryobi tools.

 

[WinterDeere]

Ryobi is cheap crap. But in almost all cases, it's better than all the other cheap crap brands.

One tool I've killed more than all others combined is angle grinders. I used to buy the DeWalt brand, and I'd kill them in no time flat. So, I started buying cheaper and cheaper brands, until eventually landing on Ryobi. The head casting split on the first one, but it was still in warranty, so the store gave me a second. I think I've had that second one about 20 years now, which is probably longer than the total combined lifetime of the half-dozen'ish Dewalts I burned out in my early- to mid-20's