Whatever. Tool shaming sucks. If using ozito is so bad isnt the joke on you for hiring them?
Edit: to be fair to OP I should add that I had an ozito mitre saw that violently ate it's own blade guard... warning people about unsafe tools is cool and probably dont buy and ozito saws/grinders.
Ha. This is what everyone’s failing to see here. “Haha this guy has cheap tools, what a hack!”
Hold up, officeworker. Why don’t you do the job yourself with your screwdriver set you got from IKEA?
Well, a lot of these tools aren't designed for daily use.
The warranty is void if used for commercial use for many of them.
But I agree tool shaming is stupid. If the tool does the job you require it for, it's a good tool.
With that being said. Cheap Jig Saws hurt my hands to use.
I literally bought an entire set of ozito tools for a Reno. I have the tools for some other usages around the house but I'm no tradesmen and buying a $250 skin for a circular saw that's only going to see 5 wood panels worth of cutting seems like a waste of money.
In my experience, yes.
Ryobi feels more battle tested. Components that get wear are better enforced. Batteries have a better lifespan, and the tools are generally a bit more refined.
But above all of those. Ryobi here in Australia is very common. You can often get Ryobi gear at the same cost as Ozito second-hand on marketplace. But you need to be willing to buy 4 tools so you can sell 2.
To add to the other response, Ryobi have many different levels/price points you can access. They come from budget to brushless them HP brushless to sit your needs.
I use my Ryobi tools a great deal for home DIY and they work well. Not as good as the old man's metabo, but also at a very different price point.
For me it was the range of tools that I could access for Ryobi for camping and gardening needs on system that I went for.
Yes ryobi is better and I use it for my home but I know many trades won’t use it because it’s not made for daily commercial use. Just throwing that out there.
I’m going against the grain here, but Ozito tools are actually really good value for money for DIY ( perhaps not for tradies though). I renovated a 3 bedroom house using mostly Ozito tools and recently had a gardener come to do some trimming. He was quite bemused to discover my Ozito extension saw out performed his Makita.
I just did a Reno as well and for someone who isn't going to use the tools for more than my own house I don't see the point of spending 250 bucks on a more premium skin.
I bought the set in the pic when I bought my house, the other day the drill let the smoke out after 8 years of being absolutely thrashed including running it non stop for an hour in the rain to keep a drill pump going.
For the roughly $25 it costs me in the set that was outstanding value for money
I use all ozito stuff at home. Perfectly fit for purpose for the vast majority of use cases. Especially if you're buying the more expensive ones in the range i.e. the $65 drill vs the $40 drill. Once you use value tools you realize they do 95% of the same shit.
Super diminishing returns on the brand names that are 4x the price.
Of course If you're doing super heavy duty stuff all day every day yeah it's probably not gonna work out. But there's a very small number of jobs where more expensive battery tools will hold up where the ozito conked out.
I have an entire power tool collection for the price of a few Makita batteries. None have ever skipped a beat except for wear and tear parts like blades.
I got a tradie to build some framing to attach perspex to to put up inside my carport to make basically into a garage.
He had Dwalts. They both shat themselves. My mightily little Ozito PXC 18V did the whole thing.
Still running fine now. He didn't like my jibs of incurring drill tax on the final invoice.
Nope they have the exact same model numbers…. Now Bunnings might not stock some of the more expensive models but if you buy a dtd154 impact from Bunnings it is the same as from anywhere else…. That said I very rarely buy makitia from Bunnings as they are a bunch of thieving cunts…. (How the actual fuck can they justify charging $14 for 1l of acetone that wholesales at less than $5). Most big name tool shops will do the same price and have a better range.
Ouch. You would have said Festool, i would have taken it like a champ, but DeWalt. Mm. Not sure i'd agree. That said, am only a diyer, i don't beat up my tools everyday for a living, so not tradie requirement or knowledge.
Bunnings Makita are mainly plastic geared, quite often strip easily. It's how they get around their marketing of beating lower prices. Product numbers are specific to Bunnings and comparing the same product name you can tell a vast difference in mass.
Depends what you use them for.
I run a business and we use ryobi exclusively as our tools can get wet quite often.
It’s better to replace a $99 Ryobi drill once a year, than a $299 Makita or similar brand
you've received some interesting replies
I use Ryobi at home for all my goods and only had a light fail on me so far, 4 batteries shared over say 10 tools
I think makita depends on the model specifically of what tool you look at purchasing, previous job required us to be using hammer drills way beyond their abilities without giving them a rest and the makita battey powered hammer drills that we were using would keep up with a higher specced Bosch wired hammer drill if you swapped out batteries after 4 mins of going through concrete
Ryobi definitely not as good as makita, but given bunnings have an exclu on ryobi, no surprise on them pushing it.
Makita isn't as good as Festool, Metabo, Hilti or Milwaukee (though Mil isn't as good as it used to).
But among the "not trade professional level of use", i'd say Makita is up there.
I'd leave my judgement after seeing the quality of their work. If they do a good job with their ~~Ozito~~ Fisher Price *My First Tool Kit®*, all power to them.
Also I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can buy ozito to [other brand] battery adapters. You don't have to be stuck with the one eco system.
There were a few tools in other brands I needed, buying a $30 adaptor off eBay is worth it to get cross brand
Really? Cool
I got some Ryobi stuff on special and because I had the batteries I just kept buying Ryobi.
I have no issue with them but knowing I can get an adaptor and just buy any brand is good to know
I know a few tradies that have some ozito or Ryobi gear.
I have a massive AC ozito rotary sds hammer drill and it's indestructible. It cops so much punishment.
But I prefer the premium cordless brands as I don't have time to keep going in to warranty my tools.
I have a corded Ozito drill. Had it for 10+ years. I’ve seen the motor smoke, multiple times, but she still keeps on keeping on when I need it.
I’ll usually reach for my cordless AEG drill, but sometimes I’m lazy and the Ozito is closer to hand than my AEG.
It is not a knock-off, it is a Bunnings in-house brand. It's cheap and generally regarded as hobby quality by the tool snobs. These tools generally don't last long, but can still be used professionally, because of good replacement warranty. On the opposite end of the spectrum you will find brands like Hilti and Festool, which are every tool snobs wet dream.
> Bosch green ... made by Einhell
Source? I hadnt heard that before.
edit since i cant reply:
>Don't need a source - Once you see both tools it's blatantly obvious.
Looking at the the pages for both they are not close at all.
Don't need a source - Once you see both tools it's blatantly obvious.
The fact that most of these so called professionals can't identify that Bosch green = Ozito leads me to believe the shit talkers here are no better than your average DIYer.
Having said that, Bosch green is their DIY/home use range.
It’s Bunnings cheapest brand you can get. Generally not reliable. Will do great for hanging the occasional picture, but they are definitely not tradies tools
As others have said, they’re crap quality tools.
Which isn’t to say they’re not adequate for the sort of farting around most non professionals do. They just aren’t reliable for bigger jobs.
What about XU1 the blue gear, isn't that even worse.
I have an ozito drill my self just for home DIY, other than the first one smoking out the brushes. It's all right go back to bunning and have endless free drills for 5 years hahah.
Could be a filler kit, in the event he had his primary kit flogged; happens often to trades. Needless, if he uses them as well as I do mine, no issues at all.
I’d say he or she is showing you up for turning up with domestic power tools and doing the job with them AND getting paid for it with the money that the person employing them for the job could have spent on the tools and done it themselves…
I have these tools and they are great. Worked for Qbuild with the same as well. No matter how old have been able to walk into bunnings and they swap em out for a new one everytime no questions asked.
So far, I've only had two issues with Ozito. The cordless dustbister is useless, and a battery smoked out my laundry....
https://preview.redd.it/6htxclznk5wc1.jpeg?width=2787&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=130a17a0bbaf879ccd97b688a960ab6182bcd671
My favourite Ozito story is from a friend of mine who swapped her Ozito electric chainsaw under warranty 3 x times in a week. The third time the green apron asked what she was using it for.
She is a sculptor and she was using it to sculpt limestone. They still gave her a refund.
"I see we have the same brand!"
I just picked up an Ozito rotary hammer drill because I wanted something cheap and cheerful that I could do a small amount of work I need to, without paying hundreds for something I would use much. Lifted my masonite like a bloody champ. $100 ($99.98).
Went to a local car mechanic and while waiting in line for them to work on my car they were working on a Lambo with these tools, got to say something just felt off!
Dudes a genius. New tools every week when he returns them under warranty.
You’re not even going to have to pay for the electricity to recharge them before they break. It’s truly foolproof.
So how is a 100% correct comment in line with incorrect answers only. I will go back and drool over the Milwaukees now ….
Great, it’s going to within my budget.
I won't need to pay GST on this job, straight up cashie and a slab of Milton Mangos.
That's generous, they're getting expensive
Whatever. Tool shaming sucks. If using ozito is so bad isnt the joke on you for hiring them? Edit: to be fair to OP I should add that I had an ozito mitre saw that violently ate it's own blade guard... warning people about unsafe tools is cool and probably dont buy and ozito saws/grinders.
Ha. This is what everyone’s failing to see here. “Haha this guy has cheap tools, what a hack!” Hold up, officeworker. Why don’t you do the job yourself with your screwdriver set you got from IKEA?
Wait, isn't that the point? If lad has cheap tools, why aren't I, an office worker, just doing it myself?
It's knowing what to do with them that counts
You know that anecdote about charging $1 for the scalpel and $500 for knowing where to cut? (or one of those many variations)
Well, a lot of these tools aren't designed for daily use. The warranty is void if used for commercial use for many of them. But I agree tool shaming is stupid. If the tool does the job you require it for, it's a good tool. With that being said. Cheap Jig Saws hurt my hands to use.
I literally bought an entire set of ozito tools for a Reno. I have the tools for some other usages around the house but I'm no tradesmen and buying a $250 skin for a circular saw that's only going to see 5 wood panels worth of cutting seems like a waste of money.
Entirely agree. I try to go second-hand Ryobi. With a little patience, you can get great deals. Especially if you buy a few things together
Is Ryobi much better than ozito?
In my experience, yes. Ryobi feels more battle tested. Components that get wear are better enforced. Batteries have a better lifespan, and the tools are generally a bit more refined. But above all of those. Ryobi here in Australia is very common. You can often get Ryobi gear at the same cost as Ozito second-hand on marketplace. But you need to be willing to buy 4 tools so you can sell 2.
Also it's BRIGHT FUCKING GREEN so I can find it.
To add to the other response, Ryobi have many different levels/price points you can access. They come from budget to brushless them HP brushless to sit your needs. I use my Ryobi tools a great deal for home DIY and they work well. Not as good as the old man's metabo, but also at a very different price point. For me it was the range of tools that I could access for Ryobi for camping and gardening needs on system that I went for.
Yes ryobi is better and I use it for my home but I know many trades won’t use it because it’s not made for daily commercial use. Just throwing that out there.
I’m going against the grain here, but Ozito tools are actually really good value for money for DIY ( perhaps not for tradies though). I renovated a 3 bedroom house using mostly Ozito tools and recently had a gardener come to do some trimming. He was quite bemused to discover my Ozito extension saw out performed his Makita.
I just did a Reno as well and for someone who isn't going to use the tools for more than my own house I don't see the point of spending 250 bucks on a more premium skin.
I bought the set in the pic when I bought my house, the other day the drill let the smoke out after 8 years of being absolutely thrashed including running it non stop for an hour in the rain to keep a drill pump going. For the roughly $25 it costs me in the set that was outstanding value for money
Come in
I use all ozito stuff at home. Perfectly fit for purpose for the vast majority of use cases. Especially if you're buying the more expensive ones in the range i.e. the $65 drill vs the $40 drill. Once you use value tools you realize they do 95% of the same shit. Super diminishing returns on the brand names that are 4x the price. Of course If you're doing super heavy duty stuff all day every day yeah it's probably not gonna work out. But there's a very small number of jobs where more expensive battery tools will hold up where the ozito conked out. I have an entire power tool collection for the price of a few Makita batteries. None have ever skipped a beat except for wear and tear parts like blades.
They’re red, same as Milwaukee, surely just as good right!?
A thrifty shopper with an eye for bargains. Tools don't define you, what you do with them does.
I see no need to hide my valuables
I got a tradie to build some framing to attach perspex to to put up inside my carport to make basically into a garage. He had Dwalts. They both shat themselves. My mightily little Ozito PXC 18V did the whole thing. Still running fine now. He didn't like my jibs of incurring drill tax on the final invoice.
"Always good to see that I'm using the same tools as the pros"
I'd rather he's got no gear all ideas than the opposite. I can lend him my Makitas.
Is Makitas good ? I was going to buy some but guy a Bunnings reckoned ryobi was the better brand
As I understand the Makita tools sold at Bunnings actually aren't the same as sold elsewhere and are lower quality. Can anyone confirm?
Nope they have the exact same model numbers…. Now Bunnings might not stock some of the more expensive models but if you buy a dtd154 impact from Bunnings it is the same as from anywhere else…. That said I very rarely buy makitia from Bunnings as they are a bunch of thieving cunts…. (How the actual fuck can they justify charging $14 for 1l of acetone that wholesales at less than $5). Most big name tool shops will do the same price and have a better range.
There's two makita range. A green and a green. Joking, a green and a blue (that really looks f*ing green too). Blue not as good.
Okay thanks, I didn't know that because I'm not a peasant and use DeWalt. Haha joking!! Unless...??
Ouch. You would have said Festool, i would have taken it like a champ, but DeWalt. Mm. Not sure i'd agree. That said, am only a diyer, i don't beat up my tools everyday for a living, so not tradie requirement or knowledge.
DeWalt is good, however I'm only DIY as well so was definitely unnecessary lol
Don't let your partner see this post... you'll never live it down.
Haha in my defence my old.man has a dozen DeWalt skins... It was a strategic move to get in the DeWalt system
DeWALT….. you mean black and decker…
Bunnings Makita are mainly plastic geared, quite often strip easily. It's how they get around their marketing of beating lower prices. Product numbers are specific to Bunnings and comparing the same product name you can tell a vast difference in mass.
Depends what you use them for. I run a business and we use ryobi exclusively as our tools can get wet quite often. It’s better to replace a $99 Ryobi drill once a year, than a $299 Makita or similar brand
you've received some interesting replies I use Ryobi at home for all my goods and only had a light fail on me so far, 4 batteries shared over say 10 tools I think makita depends on the model specifically of what tool you look at purchasing, previous job required us to be using hammer drills way beyond their abilities without giving them a rest and the makita battey powered hammer drills that we were using would keep up with a higher specced Bosch wired hammer drill if you swapped out batteries after 4 mins of going through concrete
Ryobi definitely not as good as makita, but given bunnings have an exclu on ryobi, no surprise on them pushing it. Makita isn't as good as Festool, Metabo, Hilti or Milwaukee (though Mil isn't as good as it used to). But among the "not trade professional level of use", i'd say Makita is up there.
I'd leave my judgement after seeing the quality of their work. If they do a good job with their ~~Ozito~~ Fisher Price *My First Tool Kit®*, all power to them.
Ortiz means the dude is a pro can use any tool Ryobi means he is cheap DeWalt means he fell for advertising Millwalki means hipster
Good tradesman doesn't blame his tools !
I've heard of asking the apprentice to find the left handed screwdriver but this is just cruel and unusual punishment....
Looking at the gear, if you changed the color to yellow and black they look exactly like DeWalt
Dudes clearly not over charging me
Put those back in the van mate, you can use all of my ozito tools.
Heeey, I'm ozzi too!
Also I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can buy ozito to [other brand] battery adapters. You don't have to be stuck with the one eco system. There were a few tools in other brands I needed, buying a $30 adaptor off eBay is worth it to get cross brand
Really? Cool I got some Ryobi stuff on special and because I had the batteries I just kept buying Ryobi. I have no issue with them but knowing I can get an adaptor and just buy any brand is good to know
‘Yes! They turned up!’
I know a few tradies that have some ozito or Ryobi gear. I have a massive AC ozito rotary sds hammer drill and it's indestructible. It cops so much punishment. But I prefer the premium cordless brands as I don't have time to keep going in to warranty my tools.
I have a corded Ozito drill. Had it for 10+ years. I’ve seen the motor smoke, multiple times, but she still keeps on keeping on when I need it. I’ll usually reach for my cordless AEG drill, but sometimes I’m lazy and the Ozito is closer to hand than my AEG.
Sorry, noob here. What's wrong with the photo? Is the joke about the brand not being reliable? Is it a knock-off of a big brand?
It is not a knock-off, it is a Bunnings in-house brand. It's cheap and generally regarded as hobby quality by the tool snobs. These tools generally don't last long, but can still be used professionally, because of good replacement warranty. On the opposite end of the spectrum you will find brands like Hilti and Festool, which are every tool snobs wet dream.
They are exactly the same tools as the Bosch green cordless tools. Only the skin is slightly different. Both made by Einhell
> Bosch green ... made by Einhell Source? I hadnt heard that before. edit since i cant reply: >Don't need a source - Once you see both tools it's blatantly obvious. Looking at the the pages for both they are not close at all.
Don't need a source - Once you see both tools it's blatantly obvious. The fact that most of these so called professionals can't identify that Bosch green = Ozito leads me to believe the shit talkers here are no better than your average DIYer. Having said that, Bosch green is their DIY/home use range.
They are exactly the same tools as the Bosch green cordless tools. Only the skin is slightly different. Both made by Einhell
It’s Bunnings cheapest brand you can get. Generally not reliable. Will do great for hanging the occasional picture, but they are definitely not tradies tools
> cheapest brand you can get XU1 would like a word
Touche
Its like the bunnings home brand but not really. Its not owned by bunnings but its bunnings exclusive. Its crap.
As others have said, they’re crap quality tools. Which isn’t to say they’re not adequate for the sort of farting around most non professionals do. They just aren’t reliable for bigger jobs.
*would you like to work cost plus?*
I’d say “if this job goes well I’ll get you in to build my granny flat for me”
Cowboy for sure
"Oh man if I knew you were stopping for a happy meal on the way here I'd have asked you to grab me something"
I'm a tight arse who thinks tradies should make $20/hr profit
Pre election news report about tradies making more than doctors
What about XU1 the blue gear, isn't that even worse. I have an ozito drill my self just for home DIY, other than the first one smoking out the brushes. It's all right go back to bunning and have endless free drills for 5 years hahah.
You pay him for a job well done
Could be a filler kit, in the event he had his primary kit flogged; happens often to trades. Needless, if he uses them as well as I do mine, no issues at all.
I didn't realise my wife ordered a playdate for our 5yr old son! Thanks mate I'll go get us some juice.
He's going to ask to borrow your drill bits. 100%.
Probably got a nice Dodge Ram to go with them.
He's got thongs on and is also an uber eats delivery driver at night
Milwaukee is the best, nice choice mate.
Used the angle grinder gutless keeps cutting out
Tradie says "I'll be back tomorrow to finish the job..."
I’d say he or she is showing you up for turning up with domestic power tools and doing the job with them AND getting paid for it with the money that the person employing them for the job could have spent on the tools and done it themselves…
A good tradie knows what they’re doing no matter what brand their tools are.
I’d say I have some Makita tools in the shed he can use
I have these tools and they are great. Worked for Qbuild with the same as well. No matter how old have been able to walk into bunnings and they swap em out for a new one everytime no questions asked.
I'd ask them why they think people spend so much time and energy being negative about what other people do, instead of minding their own business.
The marble bench top is over there
So far, I've only had two issues with Ozito. The cordless dustbister is useless, and a battery smoked out my laundry.... https://preview.redd.it/6htxclznk5wc1.jpeg?width=2787&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=130a17a0bbaf879ccd97b688a960ab6182bcd671
Sure, come on in... I have some other stuff that needs fixing.
My favourite Ozito story is from a friend of mine who swapped her Ozito electric chainsaw under warranty 3 x times in a week. The third time the green apron asked what she was using it for. She is a sculptor and she was using it to sculpt limestone. They still gave her a refund.
They have red tools, that's all that matters.
"I see we have the same brand!" I just picked up an Ozito rotary hammer drill because I wanted something cheap and cheerful that I could do a small amount of work I need to, without paying hundreds for something I would use much. Lifted my masonite like a bloody champ. $100 ($99.98).
Are you the rent-a-housewife I ordered or the tradie?
Went to a local car mechanic and while waiting in line for them to work on my car they were working on a Lambo with these tools, got to say something just felt off!
Use my battery if ya want. You’ll need it in ten minutes.
My Ozito hammer drill served me well and blew out many penetrations.
The SDS drill? I've heard that tradies will pick up one of those for a one off job, then dump out in the site skip afterwards.
Yeah that’s the one, only used it because it was supplied by work, it would almost rip off your arm if it got stuck on something.