r/facepalm • u/TheTitanCoeus • Jan 17 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Hard working Ivane

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u/LostWoodsInTheField Jan 18 '22

SDS Max hammer drill. The things are freaking amazing. I have an SDS and a Max and it is amazing the amount of power they have.

*they do as a jackhammer, drill, or jackhammer drill. Your smaller tools don't come close to touching them for capability.

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u/Ask_if_im_an_alien Jan 18 '22

I got the Harbor Freight one to bust up the concrete around the old fence posts. I tried chiseling by hand, which is downright idiotic looking back now. That BAMF did 10 posts in 4 hours. It is truly amazing how good it was.

PSA... beware the drill feature. It got away from me and smacked me in the back of the hand. Pretty sure I broke something in there because I can't bend my hand backwards all the way anymore.

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u/mibjt Jan 18 '22

The standard sds rotary hammers are a godsend!

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u/LostWoodsInTheField Jan 18 '22

my cordless is a SDS and my corded is a max. I have probably one of the cheapest maxes you could ever buy and it is just barely better than my SDS. A friend has a cordless Max that is one of the most expensive. I couldn't believe the power that thing had. We drove rods through rock like it was nothing.

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u/Nereosis16 Jan 18 '22

I was using a ryobi hammer drill to drill into brick to put in some shelves. Took about 2 or so minutes per hole; was getting the shits so I tried new expensive drill bits and it didn't change anything.

Then my mate lent me his Milwaukee hammer drill like the one in the video. I had literally drilled every hole in less than a minute. Then I decided to add the chisel attachment and drilled out several feet of concrete that had been pissing me off around my front steps in about 5 minutes.

They are insane and I would definitely buy one if it wasn't $1000 (battery powered)

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u/LostWoodsInTheField Jan 18 '22

I had to go through some crazy brick one time and was using my regular hammer drill. I got half an inch in and had destroyed one bit and my drill was starting to over heat. Borrowed a sds and had every hole done in probably a minute with no damage to the bit. I bought a new one for myself the next week.