do you have one of these reciprocating saw corded this is about as heavy duty as you can get this
one here was made in Hunt Valley Maryland that's so far this one goes back it's industrial and
it is a beast and it's corded now have you ever wondered should you go with cordless well today
I'm going to try a cordless reciprocating saw and it's the first one that I've ever bought and you
have a reciprocating saw this is my m12 and guys this is not competing with something like that
this is for light duty use and it's a terrific unit but no what I did was I went and bought this
one here and this is the dcs 380 B and the B just stands for bare tool because I have the batteries
already these are 20 volt and the Walt makes a terrific product I'm gonna try this out I got some
pressure-treated wood here and we're gonna put the timer on and we're going to see how good it cuts a
piece of wood compared to the corded so it's going to be cordless versus corded so to make everything
fair I decided to get two brand-new blades these are Diablo and guys these are terrific blades and
this one here it's a demolition blade and we're gonna use it on pressure-treated wood on a 2x4
here and then this is the U and here I just took it out of the box and you know what she looks
pretty good to me and this is gonna be the first try and this one here is a lot different than my
other one the other one the old one guys that has to be 30 years old and it uses an allen key
yep they use a set screw to tighten the blade in this one here all you do is you've got this little
lever on the side here just little leaver you just open this up and see if I get this in there yeah
you just see on the inside there you just open it up and I think this is ingenious just put the
blade in there close it that's it all we got to do now is snap in a battery and let's see how she
works now it has some kind of a trigger lock on it here or something because I press the trigger
and nothing happens and there you go it does have a trigger lock one side to the other and
that's a good idea so it's not in your you know your bag or something when you're transporting
it and it hits the trigger and just use whatever else you got inside there okay so that's a great
idea I like that and here we go we're gonna get to it right now okay you're ready you can
see the line right here and like I said before I'm gonna use the timer on the on the rendering
program we'll see how many seconds it takes to cut through this and then we'll try it again
with the cordless Dewalt while that one there pretty quick and I got to reposition my clamp
and do the next one okay now onto this one guys I tell you what there's so much vibration from
the corded one that loosened up the clamps move the whole thing right over we'll give her a go on
this one hopefully it doesn't vibrate the clamps right now so let's get to it here we go whoa
okay guys just for the fun of it you want to try this one out here I got a fully
charged battery on here well you'll never see that but all the lights are lit up so
it's all fully charged and we'll see how this one does and whether you can get away
with something like this or not but let's just put this one on let's just take a look
I took the blade out of the last try on the electric one and let's just see how she goes
while she works guys she works and you know it did the job okay so what are my thoughts first
of all as you could see on this one here it's old-fashioned design uses a set screw to hold
the blade in III must say the other one with the quick change blade that is so much better okay to
get down to it you really can't tell by looking at a video how much something weighs Kenya but
I'm going to tell you what this weighs so much less than the court of design and actually you
know what there's a lot less vibration how much torque do you need to operate one of
these well I tell you what the electric one there is a beast and that'll take anything
and as far as I'm concerned this one will - I really can't see any disadvantage in this
it's portable lightweight and you know what when it comes down to it how much do you need
have I ever used the capacity of this one here in an industrial atmosphere absolutely not but
it's lasted me like I say over 30 years how long do these last I have no idea but I'm
looking forward to using this more because of the portability and of course my camp I'm
off-grid and this will come in handy you don't know how many times you need a reciprocating
saw and this one here is just ideal and I mean just to take the blade out like this that is
just slick or what so thanks for joining me here today my view is guys this is a a 10 out of 10 I
love this thing I think it's terrific I paid a hundred bucks for this that's what I paid a
hundred bucks plus thirteen percent sales tax up here in Ontario and guys you can't buy anything
close to this for a hundred bucks but they sell a lot more expensive ones than this they sell
a lot more heavy-duty units that are cordless diff manufacturers but I'm not a professional
in an industrial setting I bet you this lasts me thirty years too so thanks for joining me here
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