2 years living on the KOBALT CORDLESS battery platform

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I got a Kobalt drywall screw gun for $25 brand new in store a few months ago. It recently made me $500 on a small drywall job. I love my Kobalt tools.

buncowpie
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I hope your channel takes off again. Your narratives are an impeccable. Many tubers cane complete a sentence without a bunch of “ya knows, ” etc. Your descriptions don’t waste words and flow perfectly. Great job.

macsloan
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Kobalt makes great tools. I don't lend them out anymore because people want to keep them lol

MrHowieZ
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I got kobalt to be different. Bought all kinds of tools by kobalt and I am a general contractor. Had them for about 5+ years and they work great! Even got flooded with all the rain and still works well lol

aubreygraham
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I have Kobalt half inch impact 24V. Bought on sale, which led to buying the weed eater on sale, and led to buying the chainsaw. The chainsaw and weed eater use the same battery and are great for light duty use. The impact takes my truck tires off with ease and even my rear shocks.

bearallen
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I worked at Lowe’s and that’s how I got into the 24v line. They may have started for the middle brand market but they’re slowly trying to get contractors and professionals to use them. I don’t beat my tools up all that much but they’re very handy for the price point.

chuert
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Bought the blue recip saw, charger and battery. Came with another free battery. One of the batteries would get hot and not allow me to recharge. Quick trip to Low ez and instantly another battery. I did not mark the new battery or the old one but one of them is doing the same thing. The saw is a newer version to what you have and it is a beast! I too cut up pallets for firewood. I made a jig/clamp that holds the pallet vertical in front of me and zip down through it. I can make a pallet shrink into pieces in under 2 minutes. I've used circular saws, chainsaws for the same purpose and non compare to the blue recip saw. Carbide 12" blade for "nail embedded" wood that I find cheap on e bay lasts forever. I wish I could show you some pics but haven't figured out how to do that here. Thanks for the excellent video, I agree with you 100%.

jakenyon
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Used Kobalt for 2 Years putting up Red Iron buildings and Doing all the Sheetmetal work as well. Performed perfectly fine the whole time, all of the tools still work. Only had 1 issue with an XTR battery.

SekritKomrade
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I’m on the kobalt platform bc of your first Kobalt video. I bought a bauer cordless impact from harbor freight to do axle work on my WJ. The Bauer wouldn’t break the lug nuts used so I returned it and tried to get the earthquake one. The store didn’t have it so I hopped on here and watched your video along with the TTC. Drove 30 mins to the nearest Lowes and bought the 1/2” impact wrench. I love it. I bought the drill and 1/4” impact driver and even bought some yard tools like the leaf blower and string trimmer. I wanna get the angle grinder and lawn mower. I’m a harbor freight fan boy and will defend the hand tools to my death, the stuff with cords and batteries I’d probably reconsider buying. I’m not sure if you know this or not but Ryobi and Milwaukee are made by the same company in the same factory and it makes me laugh when Milwaukee guys crap on Ryobi. They are the same tools with different packaging.

FattHoLLiday
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I got the two piece blower and weed eater on sale. Perfect for my small yard. Made sense to add to tools to my homeowner collection and keep the battery compatibility in the Kobalt family. No issues.

MBDronePhoto
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I’m a plumber that uses Kobalt they are legit

sumolax
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Good information. Last week bought a cord 1/2" Kobalt drill used it drilling 1/4" metal. Love it.

donlum
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Love the Kobalt platform. They had the best price / warranties when I first went with them. I was tired of the HF platform (at that time) because they were crap. No power and the batteries didn't last. I've gotten a few bad Kobalt 24V tools and had no problems exchanging them. I have duplicates I keep in my vehicle to make it easy. I've purchased all of mine new so I probably have more into them than you. But still way less than team yellow or team red if purchased new. As for Crapsman, forget about them rising from the ashes. Sears is almost gone and they sold off the Crapsman name years ago. It has become a "filler" brand for every big box store out there. Everybody and their mother sells them. I have also switched to Kobalt hand tools and love the price performance value they offer compared to tool truck tools. I make a living with my tools and still can't justify the cost of the tool truck brands. If a tool has a lifetime warranty, the best price wins. And I don't have to wait a week to replace a broken tool, Lowes is less than 5 minutes away. I also don't have to pay double a stupid high price to keep a spare until the tool truck shows up. IMHO.
God bless and stay well.

projectbumblejeep
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24v Kobalt for years (just drill, impact, weed eater, and blower) meets my needs as a DIYer. Home use 10/10 in my experience!

corky
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Had kobalt for a few yrs, have everything except for the mechanic set (I'm just a diy'er and hobbyist) stepdads a DeWalt fanatic but he's even impressed by my tools

RobIdyBob
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I'm a contractor of 28 years, 2017 I bought my first kobalt set primarily out of curiosity. I still have that set to this day. With the original batteries that still charge and hold a charge just as long as my brand new batteries. Cobalt batteries are absolutely amazing. And yes I will say my cobalt tools have basically outperformed my DeWalt tools. I am not a fan of DeWalt batteries whatsoever. They're junk and your bed still you got to change them out every year or two. I do also carry the Milwaukee platform for the last 2 years. Only because I know a guy that sells them really cheap brand new. But my Cobalt tools have never ever ever let me down. For the money there isn't a tool on the market that can compare... I do prefer Milwaukee tools, but kobalt is a very close second

daleon
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I been doing electrical and plumbing work for 25 years along with many home projects and scraping junk and I have been using Porter Cable 18v for 15 years which have been very reliable for me and I use my tools hard. Next I would like to try the Bauer at Harbor Freight just because of the price and easy access.

RedneckHillbilly-homd
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I mean, as far as the same tools/different branding goes; Stanley-Black&Decker bought Craftsman for $900 Million back in 2017. (Not a typo.) They did it because originally they had Porter Cable. Wanted to position _that_ brand as direct competition to TTI's RIDGID brand. But a combination of not heavily investing in Porter Cable, along with consumers clearly showing no interest in the brand caused Stanley-Black&Decker to basically abandon Porter Cable outright. (I think there's like 8 or 9 cordless power-tools on Porter Cable's entire battery system. With their corded angle-grinder being that brand's best tool.)

Main thing is, Craftsman was acquired to be the new competitor to RIDGID. And, having spend $900 Million on the brand, you know S-B&D is going to invest heavily to make the brand work! Yes, I have noticed at least a couple of Craftsman tools are blatantly DeWALT models with a red paint-job instead of yellow. Craftsman's pruning chainsaw is literally a red color swap for DeWALT's very distinctive-looking saw. Craftsman's corded palm sander is again, the DeWALT version but minus a variable speed adjust knob. Both versions made in the same factory in Mexico. Red Craftsman sander $30 cheaper than the yellow DeWALT version. So what's your favorite color? Red or yellow, and would you like to save some money along the way?

NGMonocrom
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Great review of a bunch of stuff we wonder if we need. Great video.

philbrennaman
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What got me started on Kobalt was ice fishing. My Kobalt XTR hammer drill has been poking 10" holes through 24" of ice with no issues for years. The batteries also seem to be good in very cold weather. While only being a home user, that drill has taken some abuse. I've also got their XTR 1/4" impact, and XTR sawzall. I get all my spare batteries new on Ebay.

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