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[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Tm12@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Love their dishwashers here in Canada. Solid company it seems.

[โ€“] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My Makita tools were made in Romania. Does that count?

[โ€“] 30p87@feddit.org 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I just assumed they displayed Bosch and Makita

Never saw any other company here lol

[โ€“] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Parkside is the brand from Lidl. Not great, not terrible.

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[โ€“] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Festool and Metabo are both German, Wadkin is British.

[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Festool is great if you're literally made of money.

[โ€“] Gilles_D@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or if you have to use that thing to make you money.

[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah I considered adding that originally but felt it was detrimental to the impact of the joke.

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[โ€“] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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!

[โ€“] zout@fedia.io 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but for this stuff I'm team Makita.

[โ€“] Cheems@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Yeah you can't just change brands. It's too expensive. You get the battery. You are locked into that ecosystem. Simple as that.

[โ€“] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

That's why I just have 5 different chargers and some adapters ready to go for whatever tool is the best one.

[โ€“] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

You can get adapters but yes it doesn't cure anything but waste to get rid of functioning tools

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[โ€“] then_three_more@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[โ€“] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Idk, Parkside is solid, it's impressive value. It's inexpensive, but not cheap

[โ€“] 79luca79@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] David_Eight@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hilti is from Liechtenstein, not Swiss. General known as a great company that respects its employees though.

[โ€“] 79luca79@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

ah yeah, right. sry Liechtensteiners!!

[โ€“] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Festool, Einhell

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Feel free to update the meme with another brand and give a link, I'll update the post!

[โ€“] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think top tier is Hilti (Swiss) , expensive of course.

But Bosch, Metabo and Festool are reall good choices ayway.

[โ€“] Zdvarko@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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.

[โ€“] youngalfred@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[โ€“] Phytobus@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Thorgrem@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Einhell (also own Ozito) is also on its own, headquartered in Germany. Mostly made in China. But they are moving battery production to Hungary. Also planning to build tools in other Asian countries to be less dependent on China.

Metabo and Hikoki are also a company. Don't know if its based in Japan.

[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For some reason, I always thought Ryobi was Japanese.

Guess Iโ€™m switching to Bosch.

[โ€“] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ryobi tools was japanense that was purchase by a hong kong company in the early 2000's... they also own Milwaukee.

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[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks, added to the OP

[โ€“] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To my knowledge, Parkside and Bosch are mostly manufactured in China. Parkside is a name brand for Lidl, from Grizzly Tools.

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[โ€“] Grass@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

man... all my power tools are Milwaukee since there were some crazy sales when I was starting the collection.

[โ€“] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Doxin@pawb.social 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I dunno how the lidl is over where you're at, but here they have a web shop where they sell their parkside tools.

[โ€“] polderprutser@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is my go to online toolshop now. Basically renovated my entire house with Parkside stuff. Can recommend. 5/7 perfect score.

[โ€“] Doxin@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago

Probably the tool brand with the best bang-for-buck ratio. They tend to not be the most great feeling tools, but they sure work well for the price.

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[โ€“] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Rozlif@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Yea makita all the way. By far the best

[โ€“] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You think you're turning Japanese?

[โ€“] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

I really think so.

[โ€“] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Parkside is shity

Bosch is the way

[โ€“] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

This makes me randy, baby, yeah!

[โ€“] zarlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Vonroc is a Dutch-designed powertool brand, though their manufacturing does take place in China.

[โ€“] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

Huh, never knew they were Dutch designed

[โ€“] chmod755@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

My vacuum cleaner and drill are Bosch products. Good quality.

[โ€“] EndofLife@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

I thought that was mini-me

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