[Shop-talk] Tool review: HF rotary hammer

[John Miller]

On 4/30/2016 10:17 PM, Mark Miller wrote:
> Hi.  Just wanted to post a positive review for a tool I got yesterday at
> HF.

I have the older version of this as well.  Clunkier than the Hiltis and 
etc. you can rent from Home Depot, the controls are clunkier and it 
doesn't FEEL as good.

But...you can OWN it for the price of a day or two RENTAL on one of those.

It blows anchor holes in concrete just about as well.  It chisels, it 
drills, it does all the things the expensive ones do.  It might not last 
as long in daily contractor use, but if you use it twice a month or so 
like I do, it seems like it'll last a very long time.

I just used it this afternoon to break up a sack of concrete I'd left 
out in the rain into two weeks of garbage-can-sized chunks.  I wouldn't 
have spent $30 to rent something to do that.  I have three more such 
sacks to break up in subsequent weeks.

John.