scott brown here have you ever wondered if you could go completely
cordless on a job site well in today's exciting episode we explore that very question
all right so that's one thing you cannot get around when it comes to cordless tools
batteries and the fact that you need to charge all the batteries this one's broken
so in today's exciting episode we're gonna see how difficult is it to get a complete setup on a job
with no power no plug-in power it's time it's time to lose our power this switchboard here
is moving not by much it's only moving over here and that'll allow us to have the door pretty much
centered behind me kitchen cabinets going there catching cabinets going there door in the middle
so that's in the way how far until the uh power company gets here
another 45 minutes we got time to charge the last few batteries
so the important things
the things that maybe i was a little bit late to the party on the drop saw and uh vacuum
what i mean by being late to the party is when i first tried out the battery drop
source i sort of came to the conclusion that it's almost more difficult to have a drop saw
battery powered because it's a stationary item anyway so you don't have that advantage of being
able to move the tool around you know it just stays there so being cordless is a little bit
but you know maybe you're watching this and you need a cordless tool for whatever reason maybe you
work out in the bush somewhere maybe maybe it's just an item you need every now and then for us
like today it's an item we need and i think the theme here that's uh
going to come up a lot in this episode is me doubting battery tools and them exceeding
my expectations this is a good example of that so this is a full 4 amp 40 volt
we'll see how it goes all day shall we it's also the vacuum cleaner that made me wonder whether
you needed cordless because you plug in a vacuum cleaner then you plug your drops or into it and
again it just stays there but again they've come out with cordless vacuum cleaners like
this one right here i'm going to chuck the word advertisement right here because makita gave me
this yesterday and some of these tools i mentioned them as i go that drop so for example makita gave
it to me so you know they didn't pay me for the video but it should be should be noticed
fully charged
legally so this is the first time i've had the bluetooth uh drop storm vacuum combo
so i'm pretty excited um one thing i like about this particular drop saw
more and more of these makita tools are coming out with that little bluetooth chip there you put the
chip in there and has that same functionality where you can connect the hose and i know other
brands are working on that as well and have some tools out so these are just the ones that i've
been using it's more about can we go cordless on the whole job site not what brand should we use
so when i realized that i'm gonna have to go cordless all day today i hit up milwaukee and
asked if i could borrow a table saw fully charged 12 amp battery as well
and then of course there's everything else all the other grinders and skill saws and drills
drills are i guess what everybody knows is good cordless i feel like everything else is getting
pretty damn good as well this multi-tool is um fast becoming my favorite it's the starlock plus
uh bosch multi-tool and again this is one of those tools that has been called us for a while
and um should be cordless because you know look how handy that is you run around with it
you don't want to drag a cord with you that's the power company here to disconnect our power
so is that the power off that was off power's off and this is gonna be a cavity slider here so
putters framing it up get out of the way sorry sorry now when it comes to tools that we use
sort of often they need a bit more power a hammer drill was right up there this is
real useful for breaking up stuff i'm going to start breaking up these tiles in the kitchen
we're going to go back to sort of wooden flooring whether it's the original wooden flooring or
some engineered overlay flooring let's see how good this is at breaking up the tile shall we
just emptied that bucket and that bucket's full the boat's full a lot of them came off easily
and that would probably help explain why this is still
at four bars so it's not a true test of its um
capacity but let's keep going there's more to take off
all right typical new zealand renovation vinyl under underlay under tiles i'll go outside
one very important thing to consider when you find old vinyl is whether or not it contains
asbestos glue underneath so i went and got this tested a couple weeks ago when we saw it
as we took that kitchen bench out and it came back negative no asbestos so safe
so wow patter you have an opening what do you reckon of the 40 volt
reciprocating saw powder i love it yeah it's awesome no restriction no
problem with the cordless nah it's good bro so reciprocating saws were one of the first
cordless tools that i doubted probably about three or four years ago when i only had like
cordless drills and multi tools the 18 volt of this is really good and this one's even
more powerful no restrictions with cordless reciprocating saws not at all we use this all
day yesterday and uh we didn't have to change the batteries so i think it'll be the same again today
how's the electrical puzzle going there no all right
yeah yeah the serious looking cable you have there thanks where's the camera i don't know
is it one of those hidden cam shows yeah what was that called only fans
so the main cable was a bit short a meter short so you had to extend it and join it
that's right yep have i got that right now on top of it that's right
nice i'm happy about that you happy there potter how's that wrist get away
tyler's been breakdancing yeah again again all right party about lunch time now
let's see what our batteries are like there you go two bars so we've used half of a 2.5 amp battery
and while we've got the electrician here actually this is a good idea um all right this is a this
is a 2.5 amp right that's right and we've got a four amp that we're not using on this that we
could have used but whatever can you explain how the amp thing works again i'm like totally lost
i don't know what's going on with it the voltage of the fluorine battery 40 volt both of them are
uh the 40 the 4m you'll be able to run at a higher i don't know i'm making it up now
i can make it up to you but i can't make it up to the world
all right so we've got the 2.5 amp and we use half of it and we took up all of this i mean this
there's some more to go nearly there and we still got some battery there so that's good let's check
the gear outside four bars there and yeah it's like four bars still but that's just cutting every
now and then but that's how we use it you know this is like a real world test it's not a like
extensive test and there's six amp batteries four bars so we've still got full bars
we're halfway through a pretty typical day for us a bit of framing bit of demo
and um battery's still going strong um i might have to replace my battery
we'll see how we go i've got some more tiles to pull up but so far so good
this here is a bit of native timber it's rough sawn it's bowed it's got nails in it and it's just
it's generally tougher than the stuff we use nowadays so i figure this is probably a good
test for the table saw let's see if we can rip it out and pull out some of the obvious nails
first hopefully milky won't mind because i'm very likely to cut a nail we're doing it for science
there's a nail there
you know we wouldn't typically rip timber like this without pulling all the nails out
as you can see we cut two but there's a noticeable change in power
you get more power out of the electric one but it did rip it
what do you reckon our chances of having power this afternoon
that's not good no it's not no pretty high pretty high yeah yeah awfully technical there
it is yeah not not that technical it's pretty messy tidy up someone else's mess yeah yeah
look at that timber flooring
so it's 2021 and i like to think in 10 years 2031 someone will stumble upon this video and be like
of course cordless tools are the way to go of course you can be cordless
it seems to be going that way that's what i think anyway the big elephant in the room is price
and maybe in 10 years this would be less relevant and that's why everyone will use it but
for now it's a lot more expensive to get cordless than it is to get corded
so for example that hammer drill that i've been using all day is 600 new zealand dollars without
the batteries and if you multiply that by each and every tool how badly do you want cordless tools
but that that will come down i remember when they first came out they were very expensive
and they've already come down if you're a highly mobile team kind of like what we are
and maybe a rural maybe you don't have access to power all the time maybe switchboards get moved
around a lot on your jobs um yeah would you go cordless how badly do you want to go cordless
the other cordless tools that i've been using for ages and have haven't gone back to court it would
be the planner as soon as i bought this i put away my corded one and i've never used it again
and this hasn't lacked in any way um this one i've talked about this in previous videos we have
been ripping with this circular saw and it's been great it rips timber no problem you got the vacuum
attachment it's yeah we don't need corded for that either so yeah like i said it's going that way
wow maybe we should be using the pointy one rather than the chisel one
you go on the chisel and then you twist you know are you against what it is
potentially i mean this is a very old bit yeah i'll grab the other bit
good platter slicing one bar a
literally just finished the job oh well that's pretty impressive what do you think i think so
good job two and a half amp of prouder doing a great job and there's all the uh
stuff that we hope the driver can pick it up yeah we'll pick it up
let there be light you did it nate thank you i did did you doubt yourself for any moment
never never any doubt i never doubted it either still on four bars on the drop saw
we didn't really use it too much today but look how much better it works with the vacuum
very little dust and that's the sound of powder vacuuming vacuum still going with those
same two batteries the answer is yes you can power a building site off batteries alone
okay
all right pretty much half an hour this is the battery that we used on the hammer drill
half an hour charged i never bring my batteries home but in light of what happened today was the
only choice we had yeah so today worked out well i still remember a time where
if you had no power on site that was a day off and now as long as you charge your batteries up
like this you can work all day all right thanks for watching catch in the next sign episode