Power tool manufacturers and who owns them

Re:Power tool manufacturers and who owns them by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @07:52AM (#23233823)

I'm amused that they skip Harbor Freight despite it being an industry colossus through sheer volume. It's like trying to write an article about what grocery stores sell what brands of milk and skipping Walmart.

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And before anyone tries a "no true tradesman" fallacy, go ask some people who work in the trades. There are select items they likely buy from harbor freight, probably not any "required to do the job" battery powered power tools but lots of hand tools, consumables, shop equipment, etc are likely sourced through them.

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Re:Power tool manufacturers and who owns them by luma on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:45AM (#23234795)

I would suspect this is because HF doesn't actually manufacture tools, they're a distributor with some white-label brands (all with hilariously "American" sounding names). This is also true of companies like Grizzly, which also aren't included in this article.

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Re:Power tool manufacturers and who owns them by capekwasright on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:23PM (#23239714)

Shoutout to https://www.hfqpdb.com/ for collecting the myriad coupons Harbor Freight sends out in one centralized, easy to use database.

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Re:Power tool manufacturers and who owns them by vangelis on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:41PM (#23248957)

God bless.

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Re:Power tool manufacturers and who owns them by pravda on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:59PM (#23239432)

I am an exclusively Harbor Freight shop! :-)

Chicago Electric, Pittsburgh Tools, Drill Master, and of course Central Machinery.

80% of the quality for 20% of the price. And 20% off with the coupon!

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Re:Power tool manufacturers and who owns them by tengbretson on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:28PM (#23239774)

In my experience HF's "higher-end" brands, if you can call them that, such as Bauer or Hercules have performed at or slightly above the level I'd expect from Ryobi or Kobalt for prices that seem consistently lower. Definitely fine for hobby work.

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Re:Power tool manufacturers and who owns them by philipodonnell on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:27AM (#23234069)

Its at the bottom?

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Re:Power tool manufacturers and who owns them by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:45AM (#23234227)

No. It's not. I read the article and then when I didn't see it I ctrl+F'd for "harbor" and didn't get any hits. They have a section on big box store tools yet they miss the only big box store that is involved in its supply chain to the point of engineering (I don't know if it's in house or 3rd party) tools tailor made for them.

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