The store on Walnut Ave in Dalton, GA is in what used to be a regional department store---half of the building is warehouse space or unused. The last time I was in the store, they had PLENTY of room to enlarge the merchandise they carry in stock. I call Harbor Freight "Toys-R-Us for Adults!"
Just bought the portable bandsaw and standup/chop saw combo, 10 out of 10 can recommend! I didn’t realize how much faster it is to use the stand up bandsaw and a straightener cut than a cut off wheel until now. I do exactly like you said and leave the corded bandsaw in the chop saw stand up on the workbench and use it for everything now. Love it.
Man, I have used harbor freight tools for years, but now they are getting some really cool tools, which makes me want to buy all new ones. Maybe they should do a tool exchange deal! 😅
Thanks for sharing, there's a lot of great new tools & stuff coming out. I've been buying Harbor Freight tools since 1997 down here in San Antonio, Texas. Harbor Freight has saved me a lot of money over the last 26yrs. 👍👍
Hello Dmaxryno I just found your channel and subscribed. Question for you. Will Harbor Freight be coming out with their version of the Insider Ratchet? If yes when and how much will it cost?😊
I am a 67 year young woman who started woodworking a couple years ago and buy lots of things at HF. If I were going to be living where I have my shop for many years, I would certainly buy the purple tool chests. Unfortunately, senior housing doesn't usually allow people to bring their shops. 😄😄
Great video guys. Here is some things that Harbor Freight needs to come out with or improve. Hopefully the right Harbor Freight people read this and do something about it. 6" long reach Torx sockets. They have them in Allen, but not torx. I had to buy another brand, because I needed them. I bought the Hercules 3/8 12v ratchet, and wish it had more torque. I have the old Earthquake one, and it seems to have more torque than the Hercules. I wish I hadn't spent the money on this one. I use the Flexzilla hybrid air hose and love them. I bought 2 Merlin hose reels, and the black rubber hoses that came in them were garbage. They were sticky and turned my hands black from using them, right from brand new. I then bought the Merlin hybrid hoses to put on the reels, and they are better, but do not come close to the flexibility of a flexzilla hose. Make single wrenches and sockets available for purchase. People do loose stuff, and you shouldn't have to buy another complete set. This would help in the case of some sets that skip sizes. If they don't have the shelf space, make it so they can be ordered into their local store. Does Harbor Freight have a place for customers to send comments and ideas, where they will actually be read?
Yes they need single sockets and wrenches for sure. It would make it easier on them too for warranty purposes instead of them getting one out of a new set.
Its nice to see that harbor freight is moving towards the heavy duty side as well. Especially with the reIease of their 3/4 drive torque wrench and their U-jount puller in the Icon line. Personally, I would really like to see a heavy duty yoke puller in the Icon line sometime soon.
I bought a ujoint puller two weeks before they dropped it, in person it feels just as good as my otc. I’m hoping for a brake anchor pin press and yoke puller aswell
I love how HF actually listens to their customers. That said..... Could they PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE offer individual ICON wrenches and sockets?? Buying a wrench set is nice, but if the biggest one in the set is 1-inch, and you would like to have 1-1/16" , 1-1/8"..... etc. Then you are pretty much out of luck. Great video!! 👍
Have to agree on this one. I would love to see the individuals in the bigger sizes or the skip sizes. Really needed them this past weekend, needed a 30mm wrench and socket. Checked with harbor freight first and unfortunately was unable to get either without buying a whole set of large wrenches or sockets
@@CrawlSD yes, but you would have to use a air pressure regulator. The kind of regulator that has the gauge on it so you could dial/adjust the psi down to the specs. The psi specs will be in the papers that come with the air brush
That’s my one complaint sometimes I just want to buy a single wrench or socket if I’ve lost something. I realize theft would be a problem with individual wrenches and sockets but other retailers seem to be fine selling individuals.
I own one of the original Harbor freight trailer. The 4 X 8 that was built back in 1987. I still have it and use it. This was back when Harbor freight was just a mail order, company.
Harbor freight really is impressive nowadays. I'm a full time mechanic and I've been using that 6 drawer service cart for almost 2 years, about to pull the trigger on a 56" Series 3 w a hutch! Glad to see more and more good things coming from HF!
My coworker just got a new snap on box, maybe 72ish in, for $8000, making payments. How stupid. And was supposedly originally 16k. He got some money off due to cosmetic damage. Same us general box is probably less than 1/4 the price. Snap on box cost more than his car! 🙈
@@connor3288 Ive got a coworker who makes $14 an hour as a lube tech, and he owes $150 a week to the matco guy for a Matco 4s box. I cant imagine half of my paycheck going to the tool truck.
Ryan should get an HF sponsorship for all the advertising and great feedback on HF products!!! Now, I jus bought the new welding table and I believe it's gonna workout really great for my "Tinker'n Around Fab Shop"! I've got a question bout the new welding tables. Are y'all gonna come up with some kind of couplings/connectors to join the welding tables into a modular style system??? Ryan, I preciate all of the videos y'all make! An keep on "ROCK'N THE OBS FOREVER "! I've owned my '97 Ford F-350 7.3 P.S.D.,5-SPEED,4x4,CC,LB since new February of '98!!! Thanks very much, Joe C.
For crying out loud please give us some updated more compact brushless 12 volt tools impact drills etc brushless ratchets you guys came out with that line and did nothing with it
I got a green tool cart, a couple months later, they came out with the grey. I was so mad at myself because I wanted the grey. Now they’re coming out with purple and I gotta come up with an excuse to get it. I saw the purple Jack in store the other day, it is beautiful and another thing on my list to get.
I am very impressed with the Hercules line. Having said that, I have everything that Bauer makes, corded and cordless. I have over 20 Bauer batteries and two Bauer double-chargers. I can't imagine the expense of trying to upgrade to the Hercules line bit by bit unless I could use my Bauer batteries with the Hercules tools. Harbor Freight needs to make converters to use the Hercules line of batteries on the Bauer tools, and vice-versa. I love the new 8-amp Bauer batteries and have 6 of them. I am sure they would perform very well with the Hercules tools if the right converter was made. So, for now, I can only admire the Hercules line from a distance and wish that there were a way I could afford to slowly make the change-over.
I've been impressed with the Bauer line of cordless tools so far too. The 3/8 Bauer impact I've got actually outperformed a top name brand 1/2 cordless impact. The next time I was at H.F. I bought the 1/2 drive one.
I am in the same boat, I have pretty much everything Bauer. When I first got into it, I didn't really know the differences between the three brands, I just heard Bauer was good so I bought that. Now that I know what I know, if I could go back I probably would've got the entire Hercules line. But for now I'll stick with Bauer, because like you said, it would cost way too much to replace everything. I've never had any issues with my Bauer tools and they've been able to handle everything I've thrown at them, but Hercules is definitely slightly higher quality and has higher specs on most tools. The biggest thing for me though is the fact that you can get way larger batteries for the cordless Hercules tools. At least Bauer has the 8Ah batteries now, I already picked up a few of those.
Love harbor freight, can not beat the quality for their prices I’ve slowly been switching everything over. Excited for that tri fuel generator to come out
Knipex as well but are the tolerances going to be as tight and the steel as good. I'm an appliance service tech and i've had the same pair of knipex cobras for over a decade and can still hook onto a pipe like I could when they were new the teeth have not rounded off
The Blu and black handle 1.99 Philips screwdriver from HF is as good as my snap ons. I'm anxious to try those serrated needlnose slip joints I have the snap.on ones and.i like thm but the are useless in any twisting motion, the tips separate immediately
I'm sold on the trailer, I'll be picking it up (along with both accessory kits) as soon as it's all released. This is a minor thing, but I wish the basic kit included a tongue jack, just so I don't have to wait weeks or months for the correct jack to be available at my local HF stores. Excellent coverage - Thanks!!
That’s seems silly you can get a nice much stronger 3500lb capacity trailer for a few hundred more and it’s actually welded together with a full width ramp gate
It looks like a good light duty trailer, and it's late to the game for me. Now, on "Why would someone" get that vs 3500 heavier duty trailer. If you are towing it often but not needing that capacity, one wasting money on fuel for one. Second is tires wear and cost of replacing them. My heavy-duty trailer in 1.5 years of use, I've worn out the tires a good bit of the wear is due to not being loaded heavy enough for the tires to get even wearing. I don't even want to think about the extra fuel expenses. A 1200-2000 lbs capacity trailer has less drag, especially if it's only loaded to half capacity. Just towing my heavy-duty trailer is a 4-6 mpg hit, and I've been towing it over 30000 miles in last year.
@@DB-yj3qc Exactly! I've been using my old "piece of junk" Harbor Freight trailer for more than 20 years now and it has worked great for me, but it's finally done all it can do and needs to be replaced. BTW I paid $495 for it when I bought it, and other than regular maintenance, I've had to do very little work on it. That's why I just laugh at people that say HF trailers are a "piece of junk"! Why spend more money when a quality light-duty trailer is all I need?
The biggest gripe I have about Harbor Freight is store layout and organization. When you're either looking at a certain line of tools or a category of tools, it seems they're just randomly placed throughout the store and it's like a treasure hunt. Even the employees have a hard time finding them sometimes.
i agree with that. like their bauer battery tools and battery packs are in 5 or 6 locations instead all in same place. maybe they hope you will see and buy more while hunting. thats why walmart puts the milk in the back and started moving pharmacy to the back.
Agree in that I can rairly find what I'm looking for. Any chance of doing like Lowes and Home Depot, in you download thier app to your cell phone then do a search of what your looking for and it comes back with what row and bay you can find your item at.
Those new pliers are going to change the game, unfortunately I already purchased the snap on slip joint long nose pliers but it’s nice to see they are releasing similar ones for an affordable price!
I got both sizes of the snap ons and will still get these with a coupon if I can. Not even professional but I would love to have these in the car for use on the go.
I'm sure the quality of the steel and tolerances aren't going to be as good and tight as snap on and knipex but for people that can't afford those brands it's a good compromise
I like the pliers line up. I have a couple and impressed so far on the overall quality, also the handles feel great. The socket sets in the case with foam inserts looks like a winner to me. I’d like to see those come out in 1/2” drive as well
If I remover right he’s said it way back that he doesn’t want to put her in videos and she doesn’t want to do videos either. The videos are his thing she does her thing
This stuff is so much more affordable and the quality has improved so much. I am gonna head over to the website and see what they have for a dew things I have been needing.
HF needs to add on more shop machinery. Such as the floor model drum sanders, planer/joiners, molders. Give Grizzly and Northern Tools a run for their money.
I love my Hercules brand impact and electric ratchet. I charged both batteries over a year and a half ago and with my here and there basic work with them they are still charged and work great. Really goes to show the quality of the tools they produce. And with all my other tools I’ll buy harbor freight first if possible and if I break it twice (which isn’t very common for me) I’ll replace with a bigger brand name like Snap-On.
Really like those impact tools. Predator generators have pretty decent reviews, couple quirks I have read about, but those linger around maintenence of machine.
the guys sold me the new welding table the day it got in their inventory. was gonna buy the cheaper one. must say as a begginer it is a great table to start with.
I love harbor freight I spend hours in there stores checking everything out, I use the Bauer power tools for all the jobs I do around my house and so far have had no issues with them
Thanks for sharing, Looks like great new tools are coming! I love how the pliers guy was trying to explain the handles without saying that they were just copying snap on 🤣🤣
Harbor Freight has been very impressive to me. Im a diy home and auto type customer but theu always seem to have what I need. Their US General tool boxes are very solid for the price.
Harbor Freight used to be the "Cheap Chinese Tool Store", well they still are, but at varying lines of quality and price. Pay more, get better - pay less, cheap/poor quality. Choose wisely.
You can get a tire inflator for motorcycles and atv's that use CO2 cartridges for BB guns. They are only a valve and trigger that you screw the cartridge into. They are great for space-saving and don't require power source.
next step is to have some harbor freight tool trucks. thatd be a freaking killer. love how harbor freight really listens and goes above and beyond to customers request. Thanks for this amazing video.
I remember 25 years ago when HF would come to town twice a year. They have become the go to tool store for me and have done so just in time when other places like Sears are gone. The products and tool box options are impressive.
As I write this, I’m down to just the snap on truck at my shop. The rest have gone out of business. snap on is great, but way too expensive these days. I have turned to the icon line of tools and have been very impressed. I abuse them every day and they haven’t let me down yet!
Harbor freight is where I buy all my zip ties because why spend a lot of money on the expensive ones like Lowe's or home depot. I've been waiting till they got that new welding table in again at my local store. I have the other welding table but I really need a bigger surface. And sure I could buy one of those expensive tables but I don't weld for a living to pay that much. I'm retired and 70 years old, need money for other things, just saying.
On the ratchets...I'm the opposite. I buy their flex head ratchets because they are one of very few readily available mfgs that make non-locking. (Tool truck brands excluded) Seems like everyone makes locking or at least ones with detent stopping points for the flex head.
Great meeting you yesterday at BagelMania DMAXRYNO!Thanks for being cool enough to take a pic and chat, can’t wait to check out the Harbor Freight booth and the rest of the show! Keep up the great content man!
I've been shopping HF since they had truck/trailer parking lot sales in random towns, and you'd get the color newspaper flyer before the weekend. They've obviously come along way, and I'm afraid to go back and add up receipts from over the years, rebuilding new workshops from scratch several times in my life.
was the predator 5000 generator sold out or they had an internal recall for problems with overload? had two of them had to take them back because they would trip overload button on 1600 watts. something the 3500 had no problem powering. they took the 5000 off the website. hopefully they fix the issues and bring it back out, if they do I will be first in line. Besides the overload issues it was an awesome generator, I was happy with everything about it but that issue.
I love to Icon and Daytona line. I completed my wall tool box with icon including the large storage cabinets on each side. My first air tool was the Chicago Neumatic 1/2 impact bought in 1986. I still use it every day.
I've been eyeing that Series 3 tool chest in the purple color since HF released it on their website. I want one so badly to put all of my tools in but I just don't have any place to store it. Our tiny yard is to its' limit with what we can put up for buildings.
Harbor freight needs to come out with an ICON tool set like the Pittsburgh 225 piece set... i keep mine in the truck 24-7 and over time the tools brake and gotta replace them but it's lifetime warranty.. icon tool are better
Hey love the channel can you ask the harbor freight to open a store in Canada im stuck with the red tools which are nice but the amount you go through in construction that value would be nice
So how do we get the right knowledge help in the HF stores. Seems like the stores only have people who can barely check you out. But it would be great to get some professional and knowledgeable help.
