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There's a Ryobi suitcase set my cousin has and I want: three batteries, drill, orbital sander, trim saw, and a 1000watt equivalent LED work light. But what I really want is two power drills so I can keep a driver bit in one and use the other for drill bits*. I have to see how they feel in my hands, but my hired help (whose name is Heather, and whose mother was my doula when the elder spawn was born) swears by her Ryobi, too.
*I've tried one of those magnetic flip pilot drill/driver bits but they make little dinky pilot holes and I am often driving 3" deck screws into old railroad ties. And so called "power screw drivers" are the single most useless piece of equiptment I've ever used.
No matter what brand ... go 18 volt.
Yeah, the new batteries are light enough I can do 18volt now. My old pair were square battery 9.6 Makitas; I was pushing them past their design capacity a lot of the time but I have the kind of hand damage you get from hauling full 5 gallon buckets from the time you're tall enough to have them clear the ground and couldn't lift the old (14.5 volt? I think?) I try not to use hammers too much any more for a lot of other perfectly good reasons, starting with having to use reading glasses to aim them (I whacked my thumbnail with a 16oz framing hammer, because I was in a hurry, you know?) so my drills get a whole lot of use.
It's probably just as well I have to go to the bank and HD/Sears/wherever tomorrow, I put in about nine hours trying to put the coop together today, at least a third of it being sabotaged by a dying drill!