Buy European @feddit.uk Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago

I never touched a hammer, maybe it's time

who owns what tool brands

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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 also funds a company helping Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_Stiftung
- Love their dishwashers here in Canada. Solid company it seems.
My Makita tools were made in Romania. Does that count?
- Makita is Japanese, but they make stuff where it's cheaper for them. Same with many other brands that might be German, but made in Romania, Poland or ultimately China. Usually lower end products where high end ones tend to be made in Germany.
- Huh, I just assumed they displayed Bosch and Makita
  
  Never saw any other company here lol
  
  Parkside is the brand from Lidl. Not great, not terrible.
I thought that was mini-me
Festool and Metabo are both German, Wadkin is British.
- Festool is great if you're literally made of money.
  
  Hoping one day we get a consumer grade domino, but that's probably a pipe dream.
  
  Or if you have to use that thing to make you money.
- Decided to get the metabo battery powered tools because they're the only ones that offer an adapter to plug the tools directly (useful for stuff that stays in the shop most of the time)
  
  Zero ragrets! They're very good!
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!
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
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.
  
  You can get adapters but yes it doesn't cure anything but waste to get rid of functioning tools
  
  That's why I just have 5 different chargers and some adapters ready to go for whatever tool is the best one.
  
  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
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.
- 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
If only you could order parkside all year around. Currently I have to wait for the product that I want to buy, to randomly appear in one of my local Lidl stores and then rush to hope to get one before they sell out. It's not a real alternative
- I dunno how the lidl is over where you're at, but here they have a web shop where they sell their parkside tools.
  
  This is my go to online toolshop now. Basically renovated my entire house with Parkside stuff. Can recommend. 5/7 perfect score.
  
  Are you in Germany?
  
  Here in Denmark they just link to Lidl
To my knowledge, Parkside and Bosch are mostly manufactured in China. Parkside is a name brand for Lidl, from Grizzly Tools.
Parkside is shity

Bosch is the way
My vacuum cleaner and drill are Bosch products. Good quality.
Tool manufacturer.

china
- 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.
Vonroc is a Dutch-designed powertool brand, though their manufacturing does take place in China.
- Huh, never knew they were Dutch designed
This makes me randy, baby, yeah!
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.
Bosch is European?

TIL

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