Best European alternative to Milwaukee / DeWalt? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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I'm rebuilding my workshop. All my power tools are in a terrible state, so I'm basically going to buy new everything - cordless drills, angle grinder, jigsaw, belt sander... the lot.

So it makes sense to invest in one quality power-tool "ecosystem" to share batteries and chargers. But this time I will abstain from buying American for obvious reasons (so absolutely no Milwaukee or DeWalt) and I'd rather spend my money on European brands (so preferably no Makita or Ryobi).

I think I can't go wrong if I buy Bosch tools, but maybe other brands are better? I'll get tools mostly for metalworking, and I'll get some woodworking tools also, but the main focus will be metalworking, if that's a factor.

What's your preference?

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[-] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

I can second the general voice for Bosch Blue ("professional"). Good quality but price performance is too steep for me.

Then there are two companies I've but yet seen; If you count Swiss made as made in Europe then Hilti and from Germany Festool. I had the chance to work with a few of both in the past. Absolute killers - but for a price you have to murder for.

If it's swim in money I would go with Festool for everything wood related and Hilti for everything else. And would be down around 10k just to replace my current toolset - and I'm afraid it's neither an exaggeration nor close.

I went with Makita personally, Japanese, but price/performance is awesome and they produce (d ?) in eastern Europe for the European market. Price/performance is still unbeaten in my opinion and if you're patient there are sales for every individual item at one point.

. . .

Oh God I want the Hiltis again I used for a few days a year back. What machines ... But what a price!! (TE 30, approx 2k euro (!!!!!), TE 60, another 2k. Oh but cases, charger and batteries not included, another 1k gone...

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Festool, Fein, Metabo, are German top shelf. Virutex, Spanish, make incredible woodworking tools.

You'll get what you pay. A lot.

[-] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks!

Virutex I have to check out, with metabo I had very mixed results - but Fein indont knownwhy I skipped over, I even have some cabled items from them.

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