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[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Tm12@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] 30p87@feddit.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, I just assumed they displayed Bosch and Makita

Never saw any other company here lol

[โ€“] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[โ€“] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Festool and Metabo are both German, Wadkin is British.

[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

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

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[โ€“] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Cheems@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

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[โ€“] then_three_more@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

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

ah yeah, right. sry Liechtensteiners!!

[โ€“] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Festool, Einhell

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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€“] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bosch, Hilti, Einhell, Metabo, KWB, Iskra, Sheppach, all European.

Hikoki and Makita are Japanese.

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

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[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For some reason, I always thought Ryobi was Japanese.

Guess Iโ€™m switching to Bosch.

[โ€“] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year 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€“] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Hikoki (formerly Hitachi) is Japanese.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, added to the OP

[โ€“] Grass@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder where they're from

[โ€“] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year 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€“] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[โ€“] Rozlif@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Yea makita all the way. By far the best

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[โ€“] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (3 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.

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[โ€“] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Parkside is shity

Bosch is the way

[โ€“] EndofLife@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

I thought that was mini-me

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