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Dwain just because your south of the equator doesn't have to make you evil!! For the non Pro Ryobi has the biggest lineup of tools and the newer releases have stepped up the quality and performance. The other thing is Ryobi has some of the best deals on batteries. Home depot did 2 packs of 4.0ah's batteries for years over different tool holidays.

Tool prices are getting crazy lately. I dunno what is worse tools or smartphones

Too bad its hard to search for because gay powered Ryobi just brings up their kinda crappy yard tools. These must be from pre TTI Ryobi though.

What the Death Star Blew up Fake News 2017!!!

Ryobi had a few weird gas powered tools back in the day they also had a gas powered SDS. I knew that existed no idea about the recip saw though!!

Makita has a charger that will play a tune when the battery is fully charged, but I haven't heard of a tool brand that has an auditory alert on low battery power yet, for low power its all led lights.

Surprised about Bosch they usually seem to win the tool torture tests more often than other brands

Whats the thing above the grinders looks like a trim router but the oddest design yet.

They need some new blood in Bosch tools NA. Hitachi is killing Bosch now in tool offerings!!

Bosch is fine is you know you only need certain tools and don't want anything specialty.

I would said Milwaukee in an instant just because they had awesome promotions back in the day, but now the promo's are not as great.

I would try contacting Milwaukee, but I don't see any solution being expedient though. You could have possibly popped a fuse, but that's about all I can think of. I also have no idea how you would fix it either.

I swear they demoed a hedge attachment at GIE last year Ego I',m talking about.

It was like almost 7 months before CPO shipped some peoples items

Are you talking about international sales or something else?

They make great solid tools but their PR is probably the weakest out of all the brand. The other thing is they have such a small lineup of tools that expands at a snails pace!

The person I feel bad for is investing in Bosch they are good tools but don't expect much in specialty tools at all. I will say its a little better now, but in general Bosch has the smallest lineup, and is the slowest growing.

Osha silica rules are pushing cordless dust collection/vacuums. Also Dewalt releasing tools in other markets is a test to gauge interest and part of it some tools they know just won't sell like the Flexvolt Alligator saw. Dewalt stuck out when then released a track saw years ago people didn't know what it was about funny thing is Festool is actually helping Dewalt a little in that regard and people see what track saws are about and how useful they can be.

We have seen some issues with Milwaukee releasing so many tools so fast the finish nailers being a good example of a tool that needed some more time to bake in development.

I have to go back on Instragram to see what they released but I thought they put out something similar to the M18 Radius?

Well it took awhile for the 20v max lineup to fill out. The first year and a 1/2 was just the basic's. It took a good 2 years for a jobsite radio, and forever for a finish nailer replacement. That annoyed a ton of guys especially when they came out with a framer first.

Nothing so far and it might be awhile Snow removal is a smaller market than say a lawn mower. You never know what product managers are thinking though. It does make sense as Dewalt probably has a bigger built in market than B&D regarding 18/20v tools.

Dewalt is finally competitive with Milwaukee regarding lighting options now.

I didn't hear anything this year. Sometimes they just decided to do the announcement at an industry event if its something more minor or a refresh.