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Harbor Freights Best kept SECRET that 99% of people don't know

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Video by Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

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This video documents a shopping trip to Harbor Freight to purchase drills for an upcoming comparison test. It highlights the features and perceived value of different Harbor Freight drill brands (Hercules, Bauer, Drill Master) and extensively explores the store's customer-friendly return and replacement policies. The video serves as a pre-cursor to a 'drill fight' challenge.

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there's my video what ninety-nine percent people don't know about harbor freight oh yeah it's harbor freight yep i just wanna make sure we're clear we're each buying like a drill yeah and then we're gonna put pin them so we're buying uh something from harbor freight and something from home depot and then we're pitting them against each other yep i'm getting a bower okay because i think it's gonna tear everything up okay well i'm gonna get probably one of the other ones done all right well let's go are we going to hook them together i could do that too hey how you doing good hey what is your best drill we'll take your best of all the drills ever forever best the blue ones over there hercules the blue ones okay so why do you say that though why is the hercules better um i'll get your my sales manager talk to you because i gotta stand here but okay eric you want the hercules i think i was going to go with the boss or ridges then hercules is mine okay all right then i'm going to use these so why is hercules the best because it's got better components built inside of it if we would put this drill hook it right into like a milwaukee or a dewalt who do you think would win rotated them bass backwards i don't know that's all done on the internet already in your opinion well my question is that wouldn't they just both shut off wouldn't it yeah like you know much about these tools was do they have um electronic overload protection on them do you know i don't know about that okay so hercules see personally i think the bowers seem a little more better rigid today i don't know dude pick that up that's not a bad feeling that's a hammer pick up this one i mean it's really not this feels like a big enough i mean i don't know that i would have no i have no problems with that i mean it's 89 bucks here it's a lot yeah because we don't have any middle mines and what's the warranty 90 yeah you can get it it goes on after the 90 days so one year or two year okay don't you know what they charge nothing for that or is it based off the price it's based off the pricing but the thing is is this they've actually done a really nice job with the pricing on these particular units it's not like some of the pricing and other stuff so the quality is there gotcha okay cool i mean here's what i'm seeing advantage in the hercules line is the batteries i'll just get some shoes where else are you going to get a 5-0 battery for 40 bucks 39.99 yeah exactly any other brand that's kind of crazy and i think i saw what yeah you can make that battery fit the wall yeah or vice versa dewalt might fit the hercules yeah there's just a little tab in there you cut off or something seriously we should try that that's actually all right because i mean if you can if you can cut a tab off what should come with it right i'm buying it what comes with it yeah it comes with a bank yeah we don't need to buy a sp i mean that's going to save guys a crap ton of money that's like 99 of people didn't know that yeah there's people out there that put them on um those guys that are out there that are testing them all the time and stuff like that i mean so you do know you're in front of the two two tool test kings right here oh are you you guys are online two two these are the tools in action guys holy crap i'm buying this one too i'm buying the best and worst from harbor freight oh yes i'm doing this one too look at this twenty dollar drill master twenty bucks twenty dollars oh yeah without a doubt oh yeah i'm definitely doing that one so i'm gonna do the best and worst from harbor freight against the best and worst from home depot what is your worst one i know you're not supposed to say i mean how about you just how about your most price effect how about you just walk by it and if you slow down in front of a model right you just what's your most your most modestly priced one right here the drill man it's 20 dollars dude it's a 20 drone network and it's got i don't have my current yeah [Laughter] you just say hey i'm the dirt monkey i just don't care he knows him dude we're not the cool tool guys all right so i'm going to buy that one the drill master and i'm going to buy the um hercules the best and worst from harbor freight what are you guys getting i'm going bauer dude i already have the barracks you buy another i'm getting this one 20 and that includes a battery does that actually have a battery with it if that's got a battery battery that's a heck of a deal man all right you guys got hardwood i'm getting the best and worst i'm getting a 19 drill i'm sure it does because it doesn't have one i don't know yeah it's got a battery with it and it's gonna don't look i'm not opening your stuff while i'm in the store [Laughter] it's okay we have to give you a credit card uh okay so it's got a charger so this is a one and you're done right this has drill battery everything for 20 freaking dollars holy crap mine would you be coming here one day i'm filming like a best off and we would make sure that like you could be bad that it would just be all positive i'll be honest with you we'd love harbor freight yeah but i seriously love harbor freight you know if you're buying actually i really like harbor freight that's the 89 one right it should be yeah that's got the battery so we're just going to use the batteries that come with it all right done look at this the price you got a rotary hammer for 94 dollars that's crazy here's just the bigger version of it for 169 and then they go up 274 359. that's do they do they make their own tools i didn't catch that so no they well we have them all made overseas just like anybody else okay so harbor freight actually has them made for harbor freight yeah they're specifically made for us so like hercules and bauer is specifically made for harbor freight that's great what about um with some of them other brands so all that's made so so what let me ask you something they look oddly like bauer looks oddly familiar like to milwaukee what happened there's a port okay but if it's made overseas would it be made in the same plant no not tti tti yeah okay this is made by some maybe that makes some other tool brands but it's not milwaukee it's not made by sure it's not moving the launcher you never didn't say that i just said oh yeah no no yeah yeah they're made if it is me i mean i'm just wondering because gmc and chevy are made in the exact same place but like he said though harbor free has deep pockets so they might just say hey you know what let's buy this little company manufacturing and start pushing you know i mean they get a huge testing facility though a big testing facility on california the vice president reached out to me one time and i was talking back and forth it was totally cool all right let's do something man all right other one with the free freaking things with him like it yeah and he's like i didn't know that these were so chicago though was not made specifically for harbor freight i think chicago i don't know chicago electric yeah that's been their brand forever so chicago is a home is a harbor freight brand they don't just say hey send me something every brand here is controlled by harbor freight corporate designed by harbor freight corporate and harbor freight it's just like husky tools of home depot they own everything they that's it everything in here every day they're sitting in an office saying who can we compete with today let's compete with festool right and let's call it you know duo tools tool food tool right let's make it green and let's start putting let's go to our manufacturers that make the bower hey can you make this better can you do this okay so you know we got the coordinating color scheme who do you think the blue hercules is it says healthy it says right now are you filthy i would say makita i was thinking the 12 volt compared to the wall and this is compared to the tent diablo okay so their bits are going against diablo compared to dewalt compared milwaukee okay so they're they're not power dude they're not holding back at all but what about compared to bauer why would they come i'm just joking porter cable so bauer is comparing himself to porter cable and warrior is to ryobi okay wait a minute wait we're not we're not done with bauer yet who else are they comparing themselves to porter cable it's all pi porter cable or ryobi and dewalt and dewalt dewalt milwaukee that's more of their uh okay so then warriors comparing themselves to ryobi ryobi no drill master who are they comparing themselves to black and decker holy crap one day i was here though standing right there and one kid goes oh my god you're dan from tools and action and i'm like hey you shot my heart afraid i'm like oh yeah i'm getting stuff or whatever and he had two power things a jigsaw and a drill in his cart and he was with his mom and he had all his coupons and she's like oh he worked like all these hours to get this stuff and he was so excited and i told him like man you know what these are great tools to start with you know you're going to be getting insecure doing crafty stuff yeah hi all right you guys got it all figured out yes i think so all right uh get our catalogs uh i'm good who's the man i don't think they're going to last 90 days okay well that's the thing with the replacement plan if you want uh what it is is an actual in-store replacement kicks in so my question is is when we hook this one up to a milwaukee or a makita and we try to burn them out and see which one burns out then then i can return it yeah it's not it's a that's a video right there the thing is what it is it's not a warranty it's an additional replacement button you're just lying to come in and bring one in and swap it out for a new one so we have an additional year an additional two years for you to do this what if it comes back in pieces it doesn't matter okay get it get it get it there's a video right there it covers everything any store any harbor freight and how much is it well the uh the year which gives you 15 months because it adds on to the 90 days is 13.99 on this yeah and the thing is when you bring it in say you bring it in in eight months and you're like it's just not working it broke whatever you can add you can just keep getting new ones for 13 nights you've got this is the crate yeah this is like the last drill you're ever going to buy unless it gets stolen right but seriously i mean i work here and i get about anything that you buy because it's not about that's wow that's nuts no i don't wait doesn't it automatically come with them like 90 days 90 days well it's going to be gone in 90 before 90 days after we destroy these here's the next video to come back harbor freight did you know that you can get okay go ahead you're fine i'll do it i'm not gonna i wouldn't return it because i intentionally destroyed it look you're holding this guy do you want to go in front of these guys all right i'll volunteer you in front of these guys one eighteen fifty uh video right now 118 for a lifetime and that's including this piece of crap it is that's crazy dude harbor freight look you're leaving with a smile on your face harbor freight you bought it right for what 13 bucks 13 bucks for a lifetime that is nuts that is nuts that's crazy all right guys crazy it's like there's my video what 99 people don't know about harbor freight yeah yeah people are like i don't want to go i'm like just hear me out it's not a world it is an in-store replacement plan basically no questions asked um and you don't have to do anything you don't have to register it it's already registered when you leave the store you don't have to do anything but remember your phone number if you can remember your phone number you're good yeah i love because as soon as we got the truck this is gone yeah wow awesome thanks brother all right you guys make sure you stick around because in an upcoming video we're gonna be re i mean let me just put it this way what we do to these drills i don't think frankie could watch he would just shake his head and go why why do you do that i'm gonna guess a lot of you guys are gonna probably do the same thing so make sure you stick around for it because it's actually pretty fun and i hope you liked today's video because i learned a ton at harbor freight things i honestly never had a clue about their return policy is probably probably one of the best in the businesses and if you guys know of another place that you think has got as good of a return policy put it in the comments down below i'd love to hear from you guys make sure you stick around and do me a big favor go over to tools in action because a lot of the stuff that we did during this three day tool fight is also over on their channel so go check out tools in action and as always you guys god bless and go get them and check out these videos right here ric flair and did you guys see that part in the video where i was walking like ed mcmahon what the heck was the deal with that i don't get that i never walk like that you know ed mcmahon the owner of the wwe when he goose steps out into the ring a ring arena the ring it goes like that [Music]

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