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Boom , we are on the air . Andy , how are you doing ? I am doing great .
Coffee is kicking in , yeah , ready to go Heck .
Yeah Coffee , that's right . What do you think about a battery-powered coffee maker ? Would you buy one ?
Nespresso branded Milwaukee M12 forged light , my fire yeah .
No , really , though . Seriously , do you think that that's actually something we need ? Do I need it ?
No , would it be fun to have sometimes ? Yeah , sure would , sometimes , I suppose . Yeah , like pack out version , I could just step in . I'm gonna go out to my van and get some materials and come back in with a fresh cup of Joe .
Yeah like would it improve the quality of your life . I guess the answer to that is I already know it's gonna be yes .
Yeah , it'd be beautiful . Do I really need it ? No , no , I don't . I know what you mean , I know .
Well . So I asked because I was just . I just got back from the Milwaukee Pipeline event , the big , the big shindig huh , yeah , we got to get you there . That's what we need to do , Maybe next time . Yeah , well , you know , heather goes with me because she , she's officially the camera man . You know , camera person ? Camera person ?
Yeah , look , it's not , it's not a photographer . Yeah , that's the videographer . Videographer yeah , it's not , it's not a gender thing . When I say that I think it's status , yeah , it's like . It's like journeyman isn't a gender role , it's a status . Yeah , yeah , yeah , I saw that somewhere and I was like impressed with it . I'm like , yeah , I get that .
It was a female that had it on their bio or something , right , I don't remember what it was on Instagram or something like that .
Yeah , I , yeah . I feel like there's and especially here more more recently , there's a lot of people are they use ? You find more people stumble over over that , trying to not be offended , and I think sometimes the stumbling over becomes offensive .
You know I do it all the time . Yeah , no , I seriously . Do you know what I mean ? I think I bring it up because I know I did that . I do that . Yeah , I acknowledge it .
I don't mean to no , but that saying in that you know that was just a little one line in somebody's bio on like on Instagram or something like that was like journeyman welder , not a gender thing , it's a , it's a you know status , that's cool .
I was like , wow , that's pretty cool .
I like that . Um okay , so just got back from pipeline and anybody listening follows along on like Instagram stuff knows what that pipeline is . It's like when Milwaukee shows everybody , you know they bring some people into their headquarters and like here's our new stuff .
You know that's going to be the latest , yeah .
Here's the latest and the greatest . Here's what we're doing and you get some hands on . It's pretty cool , man , it's . It's always been fun and I'm so lucky to have been involved with it for as many times as I have .
Well , I mean it's , it's a , it's not a small event , but it's a small group . Yeah , is that true to say . I mean , is there a hundred people invited ?
to . Yeah , I think so , I mean it's . I mean that's a lot of people , it is , but if you think of , like the , the trades , it's a whole . Yeah , it's . Yeah , it's a private party . Yeah , exactly yeah .
And so they have their , you know , the top staff and their product managers and their engineers and their sales and marketing people and everybody , and they're there to teach you as much as they can about the culture of their business .
And here's why we designed it this way and here's what we were trying to solve , because we learned from the people out in the field that kind of stuff . And so it's , it's neat , it's a really inside look at how all this kind of works .
And I've done things like tour the factory , or not the factories , but the headquarters and where they're designing and prototyping this stuff , and like that's impressive , that's crazy . But when you get your hands on some of these tools , what a , what an honor it is to like try something out before you buy it right , like in that , in that setting .
So they're giving you examples on here's some concrete , drill it with this new drill , that kind of stuff , and it's pretty cool , yeah , it's pretty cool . One of the big things that might take away . First thing I saw when I walked in the room was like , oh , there's some new backup . I was immediately looking over there and I'm like are those new drawers ?
We weren't at that station yet but I couldn't help but notice Wait a minute , you're expanding now . I think they got the message on these drawers and the pack out . And so how much people really like that not having to unstack , which was a huge , I would say .
It was like they should have had the first iteration , like the first couple boxes should have included those drawers , but of course they didn't . It took them a couple years and then , once they came out with it , they just sold gang busters . So a couple new drawer options .
So you're going to get thinner drawers or a combination of deep and thin in the same box , which is deep and shallow . Isn't that right ? But I thought those were cool . So many options , so like pack out water bottles , and I saw that . Well , do you remember what was your thought ?
Be honest with me because I'll be honest when you saw they had a pack out tumbler I use it daily . Oh , you do . When you first thought you're like I got to have that .
No , no , when I first saw it I was
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like I already got like a whole cabinet full of Yeti bugs and thermoses and coffee cups and like good , freaking Lord , what am I going to do with another freaking coffee cup ? Yeah , and I have . I think it's the 30 ounce , it's the big , the big tumbler , the bigger one . Yeah , and that's what I carry ice water in . And so I have a Milwaukee lunchbox .
Yeah , the smaller pack out lunchbox is , or cooler , is what I use for a lunchbox daily , fits nicely in front of my passenger seat on the floorboard in the van . And yeah , and so you just lock your cup on top of it . Lock it on it and it's one less thing I have to have in my hand when I'm walking from the house to the van .
That makes sense , it's handy . I to the point where I keep going . I think I'm going to , I'm going to get one of the , the smaller ones , the 20 ounce one , and I'll use that as a coffee cup and that way my coffee cup can't fall off the lunchbox when I'm walking up to the van and I'm like , do I really need it ?
But I probably just need to do it . Well , when I first saw it I'm going to be honest I was like , why the hell do I need to like ? I got cup holders , I got you know . Why do I need to clip a mug , a tumbler , to the top of my pack out for any reason at all ?
And then I thought I'm probably just like in true Eric fashion , I'm not thinking this through . I need to be shown . You know , like I'm very much . If you show me , I will . I'm open to learning and I saw some videos of people using it . Once it was like in their hands and I'm like , oh , that makes no sense . Yeah , you know , they're on .
Think of being in the mechanical room and I have this little plastic table I carry around on my van and I set up and I set on my you know crap on , yeah , but then I also typically have a stack of pack out stuff sitting there , yeah , and being able to lock that cup on to the top of one of those boxes so it's secure and isn't going to be tipped over
the next time I grab a pipe , wrench right and wax up off of it . That's why it exists , yeah , that's why it exists , honestly , that's why they made it and it turns out it's like one of their better selling . So , like I was wrong , I'm fully aware of that and willing to admit so .
But then now they have some insulated water bottles and what was cool too about that and true , kind of the Milwaukee way , they're like here's a Yeti and they cover up the Yeti name with a piece of tape . But it's a Yeti , you could see very , very clearly , you know . And they had this like 12 pound , like it looked like a giant ball bearing .
It was 12 pounds , okay , and they dropped it in a tube .
Yep .
They laid the yeti on the ground like a little thing holding it , and they had this tube that was like four feet tall and they dropped the ball onto the yeti and it puts a I mean it dents it , Not just a little ding , it was like holy crap , like it dented it in like an inch .
And then they took the Milwaukee one and they laid it exact same test , Nothing's changed and they drop it on there and like puts a little ding in it and I'm like that's actually so . It's built differently . Somehow Something's fabricated .
Yeah , I think it's because they put some like contour to the metal or something , so it gives it structural like it's just stronger , yeah , and so if that matters , you know , I mean I guess it does , because we're carrying this stuff around and probably going to drop it you know , yeah , you don't want it to look , look trashy after the first week of dropping
it 75 times off of something you know right , and I think the more you drop it , the likely , more likely , like that , that welded seal , that vacuum seal , it might be lost . So , like there , there you go New batteries , new M18 stuff , new MX fuel stuff , like for the batteries side of like they're redesigning them .
Yeah , so that was cool to see just new technology coming into their catalog . Where other tool companies had it and are using it . Milwaukee , I guess their approach has been different in that they're they have these new like pouch cell style batteries and I think Flex has been using them . Dewalt has a pack that's made all these different cell like flat .
They look like a , like a cell phone , the battery cell itself , and they take them and they stack them on top of each other . Right , well , milwaukee has built their own , of course , and like they think that that works for one style of battery . But then they're saying that not all their batteries are going to be made the same .
Okay , so really , kind of depending on the amp hour rating or the side you know the MX fuel batteries are they're making differently from the M18 . And so , whatever it is they've identified , like they're going to make multiple different types of batteries that are still all compatible with the existing
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sure tools .
That makes sense .
That's a big thing that they push to . When you're at these events is like how their stuff has always remained backwards compatible , right , which you think about it , they're totally right . So you don't . You can't buy a M18 tool that doesn't work with your old batteries , or you ?
know what I mean . Like it's all yeah so long as it's M and not V .
Yeah , yeah , yeah , exactly yeah .
Yeah , but I mean you could find a V18 or V28 , you know that stuff's been long gone .
Yeah , I guess . Yeah , maybe I should more . Maybe it's more appropriate if I say so . Once they started M12 and M18 , like all their stuff has been and they say they're never going to abandon that unless they go to something like just you know , you know nuclear power or something crazy , right , right .
Right .
So that so . So yeah , it was cool . A lot of new stuff , like you know , honestly , like tons of outdoor stuff , which is really huge , like you were saying . Saw that pole trimmer I did too . I was like intrigued , but I don't have a use for it , but Right .
Yeah , I got it .
I'm going to say I'm going to have to look into the one , because I just bought the new quick lock trimmer , string trimmer here , yeah , I don't know , in the last six months , yeah , and I've been pleasantly surprised with it and that's one of the attachments that I wanted to get with it , for it is the the pole saw attachment for it , but which is different
than what that , what they released . But I was like whoa , that's way more than I need .
But well , I think that they're really trying these companies , all of them , not just Milwaukee . They're really trying to meet that . You know , basically they're . You know the small engine rules and stuff that are going .
You know , basically , these small engines are becoming obsolete in that the different states EPA all this , all these rules around them , right , they're trying to govern them out of you know regular use . And so how do you meet that ? You meet it with battery power and every one of these companies that make something like this offers electric stuff .
Now I just saw like an X mark , commercial grade , 30 inch , like mower . You know , like a push . I was like wow , you know it's like every company is offering the stuff , right , yeah , and Milwaukee's not .
You know immunity there and I think a lot of the stuff they're trying , they're trying to go commercial with it , but of course you know they're people are buying it , using them there at home . I have the trimmer too and I think it's frigging awesome , like yeah .
I , yeah , I have had the original m 18 string trimmer for year . I mean , I don't know if that thing's probably five , five years old . Yeah , probably , you know , and it is . It was one of those things that I got to the point where I was like you know what Cheryl absolutely hates doing starting a gas powered weed eater .
Yeah , well , they're paying in but dealing with it . And I was constantly , you know , every spring you're like I'm going to take it to the small engine shop and have them give this thing a tune up , because you know that's what you do with them and you know mixed gas and all that . And then I was like , oh hey , look at this .
You know I had a really nice still weed eater . I still actually I shouldn't say I had , I still do . It's hanging in the shed . That hasn't ran in five years .
Yeah , I know exactly . I mean I have an echo which is , I think , what do they sell as a Home Depot ? But it's it's got a little Honda on it and every time I pull it it starts right up , right . But I never have gas , I don't know if it's mixed or not , and it's just a pain . It's just . I never winterize it because I'm an idiot .
You know , like , whatever the the electrical going , you don't have to worry about any of that .
No , I'm a neighbor he was .
My neighbor was just asking me about my trimmer . I have the quick attach one , whatever it's called , and I really like that because I put the broom thing on it for when it snows and I like that . But my neighbor was like Do you really like that thing ?
Because he sees me use it from across the street and I'm like he bought some cheapo thing and he's like I think mine's junk . I can't even like finish the job on a charge and I'm like I Swear to God , this is the same battery as in your last summer , right .
And I haven't touched it .
Yeah , I mean to be fair . I don't use it a lot , but yeah Also , and I've probably used it 30 times and I've never charged it , so yeah , Ours .
We I've got . I've , because I've started phasing the 9.0 batteries out of the vans . Yeah , because they're failing . I mean it's just , it is what it is .
And that's why they're unfortunate . I used them a long time ago , yeah .
But so we've got a pair of 9.0s in the in the house garage that are on the charger all the time . That are Good enough for the trimmer and leaf blower and what not . And they you know one of them easily will take you around the yard with string trimmer and then , once you're done mowing , it'll blow off the sidewalk on the driveway . Yeah , no , no , no .
Speaking of sidewalk and driveway still no snowblowers . From Milwaukee I was hoping to see one .
To be honest , I mean totally honest with you , I was like I thought , yeah , you know , what it would really like is a little snowblower for the end of my string trimmer motor thing , you know what I mean Like just like a little little 10 inch or something so I can buzz the sidewalk off real quick . That'd be nice , yeah . But yeah , I know it was fun .
Yeah , new technology , new hand tools Trying to think I don't think there was any new lighting , which is always exciting to me . I think lighting is way more important than people Kind of give a credit for , at least in the work that we do . Big , huge power source , like a pack out looking box with wheels on it that has its own like internal battery .
Yeah , it's like 3,800 water , something like that . Crazy things like 4,000 .
I'm like I don't have a need for that , yeah , but I could see where people do if they're working , like remote sites , like Kyle building , you know , pole buildings out in the middle of a farm field where you like literally don't have power , like I could see him using that , but I would never have a use for it .
Yeah , yeah , I that would . That's that's intriguing to be able to have that , you know , basically a noiseless power source . Yeah Well , you know , with no generator , and yeah , no emissions Yep .
No maintenance Yep , it's a battery . It's a giant . Like storage is what that thing amounts to . I don't know what kind of batteries in it , but so you ?
is it like MX fuel or is it no ? No , it's like a plug thing in and yeah , it's very .
It had some like super nice looking screen on it and I'll like touch control , I don't know . Yeah , it's very high tech looking . It's got 420 . Yeah , well , it's on it .
Interesting , that's cool .
Yeah , it's a , it's legit , like I mean it's to replace like a 30 , like a 3000 watt generator is what it is . That's what I mean , and it's it's priced to . I mean it's not cheap , right , but I could see . I mean , I guess what it comes down to is like how long is that battery going to last ?
I'm not sure , like a life cycle of it , right , but batteries are pretty darn powerful . I mean , look at , these cars have been running on the road for 10 years and they're fine .
But and I think that's a that's a big piece of that as well and you can attest to it . I can attest to it Anybody that out there that's using lithium technology for batteries If you use the battery routinely and regularly , you will get a nice , nice long , full life out of it .
Yeah , if you're going to go buy that MX or that fuel or that power source and you're going to use it for the camper and you're going to use it once a year , you're not going to get a long life out of it . I think you're right , I just my my opinion of how this battery technology works yeah .
I guess if it's used it stays and you'll get a long life out of it . If it's not used , if it's like emergency service only type thing it's going to , it's not going to give you very good performance . It's my opinion . Do you guys ever have to use a car drill .
Yes , you've seen . You've seen my videos where I've posted about that MX fuel , that hand held one , yeah . Yeah , they say that'll go up to six inch and I guess in theory it would . But drilling a hole by hand with six inch might be a little squarely . Yeah , they have a stand for it , I guess .
But it is built so you can use it by hand and there's some really neat technology built into it . And I'll be the first to say that that drill works very , very , very well .
Sure , I've used it to drill about a hundred holes now over the last like two , three years that I've had it , which doesn't sound like a lot , but you know I don't see this every day . I don't have to do a lot of concrete pouring right and and when I've needed it that thing has like , oh man , I love it .
They have a full-size MX fuel cord drill coming that's like drill up to 14 inch , like Friggin insane , that's crazy . I don't know how many holes you can drill for . Like , yeah , I imagine if you do a four inch holes with that thing , you'll be able to do a lot one .
I we did that Navi and rack system here recently . Yeah , and I rented a new Like pretty much brand new , healthy , yeah , handheld , yeah , or drill and we were drilling four inch holes with it and I was Pleasantly surprised at how nice that drill was to use . Courted , correct , courted , yeah , yeah , I'll courted .
I Was just blown away how well the anti-kickback work done it .
That's what this MX fuel like . So there's a gauge on the top of the drill . You look at as you're holding it right , yeah , standing above it and you look down and there's a there's like arrows in four directions , like a compass , okay , and they light up , telling you which way you need to tilt the drill so that it is plumb in square . Sure , that's cool .
And and the clutch built into this thing is like it'll . I am convinced that , unless this tool fails , there's no way it's gonna twist your hand more than like a quarter of an inch Like it is . Yeah , it will it ? You don't even feel the bind up , the tool stops . Does that make sense ?
Yeah , no , I totally do and so the state like that is so incredibly important for safety and people Overlooked at . And they , they , they . You know there's a little macho built into the who cares . You know , I , you know , my , my , my , what's the ? The stud drill , the ? The whole , my whole hog , you know , knock me off ladders .
I'm still alive , and I'm like , yeah , can you ?
Yeah , cool it cool , yeah , yeah no , but anyway , new full-size cordial come in , which I've learned about there , and I Gotta tell you , though , my recommendation is Don't sleep on that handheld MX fuel thing , like that thing's legit if you have a use for it , occasional use , like like I do , where you're like , oh , we got a drill , a couple holes for the
venting on the like yeah . I'm I own that thing . It's expensive , but yeah well , I mean it's been worth the Like . That is a good investment , in my opinion . Yeah .
Yeah , I mean , it cost me 200 bucks to rent that one for four , get four holes the other day .
So yeah , well , yeah , and if you don't do it often that I can , that's . There's nothing wrong with yeah , right , though . All right , dude . Well , it was fun . I can't . I'd like to reach out if anybody from Milwaukee is listening . Thank you for the invite from cancel hub . We had fun . The hospitality is great always . Yeah , and I'm looking forward to it .
I hope . I hope we see some cool updates from people as a new tool calls tools come out Absolutely . Tag us in your post , mtga , and your new tool , post from a walkie . There you go . Right on , brother , there's a long one . It's a long bonus . There's a long bonus . It's like a bonus bonus double , double duty . Yeah .