Hopefully he gets all the free stuff too. They do have some pretty nice kick backs.
Tool Shopping: Drill/Driver kit recommendations
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Hopefully he gets all the free stuff too. They do have some pretty nice kick backs.
Might look into your original Ridgid line. Compatible with what you already have, and a lifetime battery warranty. I bought a driver/drill set to go with my 10+ year old set of Ridgid tools I have. They still work after 10 years, but the battery life is significantly less. Curious to see how the lifetime battery warranty works out. Lifetime is only when you buy sets, not when you buy individual batteries.
Menards is only three miles from my house and Home Depot is just another mile past that so I can hit both in one short hop. For high quality stuff it's Home Depot. When it's odds and ends and misc stuff Menards will do. Menards today for a closet kit, light bulbs, some storage boxes and some Tapcon fasteners then over to Home Depot for some brushed nickel door hinges and a new Milwaukee drill and impact driver.
Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas to me.
I replaced my old Dewalt over the summer with this guy. 20V. Mine has a hammer drill option for drilling through concrete/masonary. This thing is awesome. Firm believer that Dewalt makes the best drills. The newer batteries last forever too, which is nice. My old one would go for a while, and then that was it.
EDIT...... Looks like I missed you by 9 min.
Milwaukee makes nice drills too.
A friend is a pilot for Menard's and has gotten to know John pretty well. He has some really interesting stories about him. Here is a long-winded example.
Menard's is well-known for prosecuting shoplifters and employee theft to the furthest extent that the law will allow. He doesn't trust local lawyers and sends corporate lawyers to store locations to enforce this. John Menard happened to be on one of these trips with a lawyer. As they were departing the plane, the lawyer went into the refrigerator on the plane and took out two cans of Diet Coke. When they returned the next day, John confronted the lawyer, "Admit that you stole two Diet cokes from me." The lawyer responded that he didn't steal anything. The flight was delayed for a substantial amount of time while this repetitive argument went on. When they got back to Eau Claire, the lawyer quit his job.
Product placement.
By the way, we found that United Rentals was a surprisingly good place to buy tools from.
Read about this in the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel some time ago, couldn't find a link but here is the story from another source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-crush-family-resisted-sexual-advances.html
How did I NOT have one of these cool impact driver thingies before? 
Just used it to drive some 1/4" Tapcon concrete anchors. Insert Tim Allen grunt. 
Just used it to drive some 1/4" Tapcon concrete anchors. Insert Tim Allen grunt. 
