Last year, my brother Steve called, asking for advice on a new table saw. He had a massive old Craftsman saw (doesn’t everybody?), which still worked fine. He doesn’t use it often, though, and it takes up a good bit of real estate in his one-car garage. He wanted a pro-grade saw that could handle a big project when he was feeling motivated, but which could live quietly in a corner somewhere when he wasn’t. About this time, a Hitachi C10RJ portable jobsite saw rolled into HomeFixated’s driveway (more on that shortly); we’ll take a look, and see if it would be a good choice for Steve – or anyone looking for a portable pro-grade table saw. Read More
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Hitachi DV18DBFL2 18V Brushless Hammer Drill Review – Lean And Green
When you’re heading out to do a job, the fewer tools you have to schlep along, the better. If you have one tool that can do several jobs, like the Ridgid JobMax Multitool, for instance, it’s that much less to load up, unload, keep track of, and load up again when you’re done. One way to pare down the take-along list is to use a drill driver that can do double duty as a hammer drill. They tend to be big and heavy though, so we were intrigued when we received a compact Hitachi (now Metabo HPT)! DV18DBFL2 18V Brushless Hammer Drill to evaluate. Read More
