I thought that was mini-me
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I think top tier is Hilti (Swiss) , expensive of course.
But Bosch, Metabo and Festool are reall good choices ayway.
Bosch also funds a company helping Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_Stiftung
Love their dishwashers here in Canada. Solid company it seems.
My Makita tools were made in Romania. Does that count?
Huh, I just assumed they displayed Bosch and Makita
Never saw any other company here lol
Parkside is the brand from Lidl. Not great, not terrible.
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.
Festool and Metabo are both German, Wadkin is British.
Festool is great if you're literally made of money.
Hoping one day we get a consumer grade domino, but that's probably a pipe dream.
Or if you have to use that thing to make you money.
Yeah I considered adding that originally but felt it was detrimental to the impact of the joke.
I'm sorry, but for this stuff I'm team Makita.
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.
For some reason, I always thought Ryobi was Japanese.
Guess I’m switching to Bosch.
Hikoki (formerly Hitachi) is Japanese.
Thanks, added to the OP
Bosch, Hilti, Einhell, Metabo, KWB, Iskra, Sheppach, all European.
Hikoki and Makita are Japanese.
Yeah I'm going Japanese.
Yea makita all the way. By far the best
You think you're turning Japanese?
I really think so.
Tool manufacturer.
china
Impressive modlog for 27 days: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=18409753
I've never seen someone get banned for "Mass downvoting"
Jez I wonder if there are some shitty mods here. /S
All events are from .ml, and therefore can't be seriously considered as legitimate mod actions.
My vacuum cleaner and drill are Bosch products. Good quality.
Bosch is European?
TIL
To my knowledge, Parkside and Bosch are mostly manufactured in China. Parkside is a name brand for Lidl, from Grizzly Tools.
Vonroc is a Dutch-designed powertool brand, though their manufacturing does take place in China.
Huh, never knew they were Dutch designed
I have a deep need for that pic of Dr Trump and Mini E
This makes me randy, baby, yeah!
I never complained about bosch, but are Parkside tools any good?
Parkside is single-use landfill generating crap
They're ok in a pinch. Usually very cheap. It's the lidl brand.