I just cut through a 6x6 pressure treated beam with my Ryobi brushless circular saw. Didn’t even bother to upgrade to a diablo blade. And it worked great!
I made six more similar cuts. No problem.
If I was doing this every day, would I upgrade to Milwaukee? Probably. (More than likely buy a corded saw.) But for weekend home improvement projects, don’t doubt the power!
I don’t hate Ryobi I just prefer other tools. Milwaukee 12v are amazing for lightweight battery tools. They punch above their weight in a small light package.
When it comes to anything else heavy duty I just prefer corded tools. I have a Ryobi corded hammer drill and it’s great.
I had a Ryobi battery mower and it went back to the store the same day. I replaced it with EGO.
That’s fair. I have heard some serious issues with their mowers.
not every company makes a perfect tool for every market. Ryobi has some good ones, I am sure the Milwaukee 18v is good too but once im at that level of power I just get a corded tool, it costs less and its more reliable plus the batters are not $300 each.
Tbf if you wait for a deal you can get Ryobi batteries for really cheap… During Ryobi Days I got 4 9ah batteries for like a hundred bucks.
After borrowing a friends Hilti TE24 hammer drill i bought one on ebay and will never use a smaller one again.
Hilti is top teir, if I was working as a professional in construction I would probably invest in their tools over Milwaukee, same with Makita . I used to use lots of Hilti for powder actuated fasteners when I did commercial networking and fiber-optic infrastructure installation.
They are famtastic, and used prices on eBay moved them into my budget.
My most recent project was fencing about 5.5 acres in, about 500ft of the fence line was on a rock shelf. tposts have a hard time being drove by hand into boulders. I used a 1" x 18" bit to drill all but two of the posts on that side.