Milwaukee Tools

M12 3.0 XC

Wasn't sure how power hungry it'd be, plus being over 100 I figured I'd use a medium sized battery

I too have a Fuel leaf blower, and it's perfect when using a high output CP 3.0

Battery lasts forever and the leaf blower has real balls behind it

 

Oh. I didn't realize the trimmer is an M12 as opposed to an 18v.

 

A page or two ago, I posted just having purchased my weed whacker and inquiring about an hedge trimmer

The quik lok attachment looks good and all, but it'd be overkill as you saw the small bushes

An M18 variant would also be overkill

One or two members said good things about the M12 version, so I picked it up new for $93

Still, I think it's a great tool just a little unwieldy

Gotta say though, that fucker chews through plants easily

 

I have to second this, I've found my m18 blower is perfectly balanced with the 6.0 battery it came with, my trimmer is perfectly balanced with the 8.0 battery it came with. Switch those two batteries and the balance is noticeable off.

 

The XC 5.0 battery doesn't feel much different at all than the XC 3.0 just now...but ok

 

i think you're going about this the wrong way.

out on any trail, tight is tight. the only goal is to get home, not make dealer-certified repairs. tightening any part to the relative max of the bolt is plenty fine. if it's a problem, save the torque wrench for the garage, and make a mental note to re-adjust the trail-fixed part once you get home. an axle nut at 150 pounds is going to hold perfectly fine for quite likely a lot longer than most people's memory of the incident.

it's the same reason most people keep worn or used parts as backups on the trail. it doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be better than the broken part.

 

Damn right

 

That’s makes sense if you live somewhere flat. You don’t want your shit coming apart where I live because you half assed it or your walking 20 miles off a mountain to cell service.

 

Not only overkill, but really heavy. Mine I use on my Leyland Cypress that are 20’ tall and it’s a handful. Especially with the extension on it. The pole saw is lighter. I like to use my quick lock hedge trimmer in my East side planters to get the thick weeds down. With the angle adjustment, it makes for an awesome heavy duty weed wicker for thick stuff that would take a lot longer with the trimmer. As a bonus, it doesn’t fling crap everywhere and just sheers everything and lays it flat. I let it decompose right there and hit it again in a couple weeks. It also makes quick work of trimming back the blackberries

 

My neighbor is moving and sold me a pile of Ryobi tools for $100. I don’t feel guilty flipping them for $250 to a guy at work.

 

This is news to me.. I have a Milwaukee M18 battery-operated framing nailer.

Are you saying that if I leave it sitting around, in ordinary garage storage conditions, without a battery in it (of course,) that it's going to gum up and work less well over time? Or am I misunderstanding?

 

I believe he was referring to the Paslode, which is gas operated. Mini explosions.

 

Some lubricants gum up over time. A salesman sold General Dynamics in Pomona a lubricant for a precision automatic machine. Hardinge brand. They changed the lubricate in all 3 machines.
Ran one day. Gummed up the next morning. Wouldn't run. Had to have them taken completely apart, cleaned, reassembled.

 

As Mark said, it uses a little gas cylinder to fire the cylinder. The battery is basically powering the electronics in it.

 

Alright. I guess I got confused by the word "battery".

In the Paslode being referred to: Battery supplies a spark to ignite a flammable gas, driving the action. (With associated problems of any combustion process, i.e. eventual build-up of waste combustion products, varnish, etc.)

In Milwaukee M18 and other modern electric-only nail guns: Battery & additional electronics (probably a capacitor) dump into a very powerful electromagnetic coil which drives the action (?). Or, maybe it's just a motor connected to a reduction gear which resets a very powerful spring. In either case: No flammable gas, no waste combustion products, probably no maintenance issue leaving the unit on the shelf for many years between uses.

 

That trim nailer is a pretty good tool, if you have a use for it you might consider keeping it.

 

I have the Milwaukee 22ga

 

The only tool I didn’t already have was the 1/4 hex driver. I used the Ryobi over the weekend to try it out because I normally just used the installation tool for my 1/4 hex shit. I like the idea of picking up the 12v Milwaukee one for out in the shop doing mechanical work and keeping the installation tool nice and clean for working in the house. I will add that the Ryobi 1/2 impact is actually a pretty compact unit.