I used to work with a firm producing timber staircases in a workshop and then would go out on site to fit them. Given that each site would be different and often cramped with other tradies or the occupants personal effects, this was very very demanding work on power tools and fixer alike. The tools regularly got kicked across the floor on site as you lift and manipulate stringers and such into place.
They were often dropped and knocked about as a matter of course and were required to do much heavier work than their designer could possibly have considered reasonable.
All my tools were Makita, and most were secondhand when I got them. They not only continued to take that abuse on a daily basis, but were also operated extensively in fine sand during house re-stumping operations and have also been called upon to saw, drill, and rout some of the hardest recycled demolition timbers you could imagine.
With blades asmok'in and spark'in, spade bit shafts twist'in and snap'in, tungsten carbide cutters fly'in off the bit, those tools just kept on going and going and the job always, without exception, got done.
I still have some of those tools, their still going strong, others I have sold on as I cannot do the heavy work they are capable of anymore.
The only one I managed to burnout was a 5" angle grinder. I was 160km (100 miles) from any town and we were moving a large shed. The uprights of the shed needed to be cut from a concrete slab but the only disk on hand were 9", off came the guard (don't shiver, the 100 miles was all corrugated road, this job had to be done) on went the disk and down came the shed. On the very last of around 40+ uprights she smoked up leaving only a 1/4" of steel to waggle off.
Get the Mak you won't look back......OK Mr Makita, you can send me the cheque when ever your ready
Cheers
Kim
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