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Thehandles were missing, the cord was shot, but it ran.After drilling umpteen holes for PEX tubing in joists, it'sstill running with no problems, new handles, and a new cord.It's been lent to friends, even the ones that already own new fangled 28V XRPM super titanium wireless LED cordless drills.This is a quality tool. You could, but you're a girly man.This can be a dangerous tool. My Milwaukee drills are theones that have never needed switch or chuck replacements.This is a heavy tool. I looked like it hadbeen drug behind a truck and then used in the yard for a while. I vaguely remember using those new fangled pistol grip drills for something, along with first some spade bits, then some auger bits.
You're not going to use it to shoot drywall screws on the ceiling. I got tired of waiting for batteries to recharge, so I got some selfeed bits, and then drills started breaking and chucks started wobbling.I picked up a hole hawg for a song. The aluminum holes on mine are even helicoiled.There isn't a hint of wobble in the big jacobs chuck after all the abuse it's been through. everyone has at least one storyabout that new guy that got spun around and around 3 stories upoff the scaffold.Remember to never never use the high torque (low) setting without apipe (it takes 3/4 steel threaded pipe) BRACED against something.If it isn't braced, its going to turn around, smack everything inits path, and pin the smackee against the next solid object.Remember to hold it so that it will pull away from you, especiallywhen you use it in low without a brace. All the same, milwaukee makes replacement parts cheap and easy.
The drill arrived in excellent condition and in a timely manner. All in all a very positive transaction.
The Hole Hawg handles the torque easily raising the tower from the collapsed 22 foot height to 55 feet in a few minutes. I'm an Amateur Radio operator and have a crankup tower for my antenna. I've modified it so I can use a drill motor for the winch. The total weight being lifted is at least 750 pounds. I've tried two other drills but they can't handle the torque needed for the length of time it takes to raise the tower.
I'M AN ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR AND USE THE HOLE HAWG ALMOST EVERY DAY.THE ONLY OTHER ONE I'VE USED ALOT IS THE MAKITA AND THO IT'S A GOOD TOOL, THE MILWAKEE JUST SEEMS TO BE TOUGHER. I DEFINATELY RECOMEND IT TO ANYONE THAT HAS TO DO SOME SERIOUS HOLE DRILLING, ESPECIALLY BIG HOLES.BUT PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOUR DOING, IT'LL HURT YOU IF YOUR CARELESS.
Screw on the secondary, perpendicular handle to keep a hold on this monster as it bores through wood, concrete, asphalt, metal--the tool can handle it all. Drilling through the toughest material, this one has enough torque to get the job done, and still more to spare. This drill puts others to shame. The limit to what you can get done with this tool is determined not by the torque that the drill puts out, but by your own strength--when the bit binds on you, the drill will literally wrench itself out of your hands. But can you handle the tool. The warning that the Amazon review gives is apt; new users should be careful with this behemoth because it has more power than you might think.
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