>>891079Their Jacks are a God send, their wrenches and hammers are durable, their sandpaper/cutting discs/dremel toppers are on point, their router bits are fine after being sharpened a little, their $8 drills and grinders are beautiful in an emergency and have lasted me fine, their screw drivers rarely chip, their wire connectors/cotter pins/o rings work just as well as any other brand I've used...Really I've had 2 bad experiences over 8 years. They're not my go to for tools I use daily, but aside from being ugly and sometimes anything but ergonomic I've been happy. I have the 2 ton engine crane for example, and despite everyone telling me it'll fail on me it supported an engine for 2 weeks without me ever having to pump the ram to get it off the floor. It hardly bled.
I honestly believe that a lot of the negative hype surrounding harbor freight is mostly perpetuated by old tradesmen who can't understand why "nothing" is made in the USA anymore and seeing that trades tend to be passed down that's part of the learning process most of us go through. Not saying everything away harbor freight is comparable to things designed for heavy industrial use, that's obviously not the case. If I had to drill into concrete daily I'd buy a milwaukee for a few hundred bucks, since I do it maybe twice a year if even I own a $30 Chicago electric. That being said, I owned a CE circular saw, and because of its performance I am now the proud of owner of a milwaukee circular saw and I couldn't be happier. Not that the ce was bad, it just wasn't as good.
Sorry to derail the thread, what I did today was go off on a tangent about things that don't really matter. I mean, if it's your money spend it on what you want.
