FestitaMakool said:
demographic said:
Never worked on many building sites then eh?
[wink] Exactly, but yes I have done a few. That’s why I chose Festool to my “private” building site.
There’s not many Festool products I would have brought to a site, but a HK saw, and a very few other Festool’s.
The kit on a building site would probably consist of Makita, Milwaukee, DeWalt and Metabo. Just as Rob Robillard in A Concord Carpenter have chosen. Most FT would have stayed in the shop.
As the kit would have been banged around, and therefore would have been of the more rough character to get the job done. FT has not its strength (and pricing) to compete very well, at least not over here) They’re more of a specialists or enthusiasts brand on sites. In a kitchen/cabinet shop and so forth, yes, very common.
I don't know about anyone else but personally I'm not fussed about Festools offerings on the drill front and really couldnt care less about them.
However I find the HKC saw to be an excellent tool thats out the van almost every working day.
I have a a TS55 and hardly ever use it now I have the HKC.
That HKC gets properly used, up on a roof, doing concrete formwork, framing through to kitchens.
Sometimes I hook it upto an extractor (not having a cordless extractor is becoming increasingly annoying nowadays as the sites I'm on often have power thats intermittent at best) but most times when I'm working in a building the windows arent even in so its... well ventilated and I just use the dust bag on it.
Nowadays I basically don't want anything thats got a cord. I've been a self employed subcontractor for 17 years now and for me cordless is definitely the way forward.
Working on peoples homes is differennt and power is often more likely to be availible. I detest working in peoples homes though and would rather stick a fork in my eye.
Also we have to get ourcorded tools PAT tested by an electrician every six or so months, this can cost money.
The cordless tools don't need it (although the chargers do but theres a LOT less chargers than tools) so cordless tools are less of a bother.
Its funny how many of us can only really see how we work and not realise how different circumstances change the methods of working.
Me I'm baffled at people who like those little 3Ah batteries because for me charging batteries is an effort and sometimes a charging point is a good distance away in an area where theft is an issue.
So I buy minimum 5Ah batteries so its less often.
Garage-wallahs are 10 feet away from a socket at most and love the lergonomics and light weight of those tools.
You couldn't give me one.
As I understand it the TSC is more powerful than the TS55 so they're not always giving up anything on power anyway.