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Has anybody ever used hitachi and tanaka trimmers and blowers im curious to know how good they are

I have a electric Hitachi hand held wood plainer. Haven't used it very much but it seems like a well built tool don't know about there lawn tools.

i dont know about their hand tools either. being a carpenter, i have used alot of tools. their cordless drills suck. their corded drills are great though. their sliding compound miter box is alright, and just their chop boxes are good. i have no idea about their lawn equipment though. and i have used their planers before. not a bad tool, i just dont prefer hand planers. the only hand planers i use is the block planes for chamfers and stuff. prefer a surface planer.

metz12 said:

i dont know about their hand tools either. being a carpenter, i have used alot of tools. their cordless drills suck. their corded drills are great though. their sliding compound miter box is alright, and just their chop boxes are good. i have no idea about their lawn equipment though. and i have used their planers before. not a bad tool, i just dont prefer hand planers. the only hand planers i use is the block planes for chamfers and stuff. prefer a surface planer.

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I said I don't use it very much. I guess its one of them tools I bought which I though was a good idea at the time but my electric planer sits in the cabinet not used very often. The only time I use it is when I have a very long board and its nice to clean up the edge when the board too long for my joiner or a hand plain and don't want to saw it.

reynoldston said:

I said I don't use it very much. I guess its one of them tools I bought which I though was a good idea at the time but my electric planer sits in the cabinet not used very often. The only time I use it is when I have a very long board and its nice to clean up the edge when the board too long for my joiner or a hand plain and don't want to saw it.

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well yes an electric planer would be good in that case. what kind of joiner do you have? i hate joining an edge, if you dont put the grain the right way it chips, and there is always the possibility of your hand slipping into those knifes. its one of the sketchy tools in the shop :laughing:

metz12 said:

well yes an electric planer would be good in that case. what kind of joiner do you have? i hate joining an edge, if you dont put the grain the right way it chips, and there is always the possibility of your hand slipping into those knifes. its one of the sketchy tools in the shop :laughing:

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I know what you mean about a joiner because I know some people that that has happen to. As for my shop I always try to put safety first because to me its much faster using safety before siting in a emergency for haft a day or more and a lot less pain. As for my jointer I have a 4in. Jet. I don't need anything bigger because I only use it for edges so I can glue up boards. If you keep good sharp blades on your jointer you will get less chipping and also the type of wood you are working with makes a different, I also use my table saw for jointing boards.

reynoldston said:

I know what you mean about a joiner because I know some people that that has happen to. As for my shop I always try to put safety first because to me its much faster using safety before siting in a emergency for haft a day or more and a lot less pain. As for my jointer I have a 4in. Jet. I don't need anything bigger because I only use it for edges so I can glue up boards. If you keep good sharp blades on your jointer you will get less chipping and also the type of wood you are working with makes a different, I also use my table saw for jointing boards.

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well you have to get those fine rip blades when you want to do that. if i'm at work or school they usually require me to join a sawn edge (at school we have 4joiner planers and at work we have 2 joiner planers). i dont like to when its either going to get shaped, rabbited, tongue and grooved, routed, or sanded. but if im gluing up say a cutting board with biscuits and a plate joiner i defiantly join an edge. time is money as you know! but the quality of work is more important.

Only two brands for the commercial use around here. Stihl, and Tanaka. Tanaka dealer is 7 miles away.

metz12 said:

well you have to get those fine rip blades when you want to do that. if i'm at work or school they usually require me to join a sawn edge (at school we have 4joiner planers and at work we have 2 joiner planers). i dont like to when its either going to get shaped, rabbited, tongue and grooved, routed, or sanded. but if im gluing up say a cutting board with biscuits and a plate joiner i defiantly join an edge. time is money as you know! but the quality of work is more important.

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Wood working is a hobby for me and to spending hours to make one cut means nothing to me. If I make something and don't like how it turned out I just start over again. This is the better part of being retired.

reynoldston said:

Wood working is a hobby for me and to spending hours to make one cut means nothing to me. If I make something and don't like how it turned out I just start over again. This is the better part of being retired.

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well woodworking and cabinetmaking is what i hope to do as a career someday. i have an internship that i do cabinetmaking in. and at school i'm learning more of the framing and house building side. one day i hope to have a home cabinetmaking shop.

metz12 said:

well woodworking and cabinetmaking is what i hope to do as a career someday. i have an internship that i do cabinetmaking in. and at school i'm learning more of the framing and house building side. one day i hope to have a home cabinetmaking shop.

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In regard to Hitachi, I've always been leary of companies with multiple lines of products(like Mitsubishi electronics, TV's & cars)...LG......etc. If Nissan started making dishwashers I doubt I'd buy one just because they make good automobiles:0)

djdicetn said:

In regard to Hitachi, I've always been leary of companies with multiple lines of products(like Mitsubishi electronics, TV's & cars)...LG......etc. If Nissan started making dishwashers I doubt I'd buy one just because they make good automobiles:0)

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This is a good point I also an leary of it to. I like dedicated company's that only make and specialize in one thing.

Problem is you get a dedicated company and you get a corporation who buys out our dedicated company and stick their badge on it

exotion said:

This is a good point I also an leary of it to. I like dedicated company's that only make and specialize in one thing.

Problem is you get a dedicated company and you get a corporation who buys out our dedicated company and stick their badge on it

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Yeah, it seems that the big fish are always on the prowl for a vulnerable small fish:0)
The worst case of mixed product marketing I ever experienced was when I bought my kids a Coleco "Adam Computer", that had a built-in ability to play the Colecovision games(the major competitor of the infamous Atari game console) and also had a tape drive, software titles and a matrix printer. Unfortunately, during the same period they began marketing the Adam Computer(to compete with the Commodore Computer) they also were selling the exteremely popular "Cabbage Patch Dolls"(adoptable, life-like looking dolls)...I think you can actually still buy them.

Now I ask you.....would you REALLY want to buy a computer made by the same company that made Cabbage Patch Dolls????? Go figure, the Adam Computer failed miserably after less than two years on the market. BTW, I still have that Adam Computer stored in a closet just in case some nut on eBay or Craig's List is a collector of vintage computers and wants to offer me $10,000 for it. Now THAT would make buying the Adam Computer a wise long-term investment wouldn't it:0)

Have a hand held and backpack tanaka blowers. The hand held is a $300 piece of junk. The backpack has been ok.

djdicetn said:

In regard to Hitachi, I've always been leary of companies with multiple lines of products(like Mitsubishi electronics, TV's & cars)...LG......etc. If Nissan started making dishwashers I doubt I'd buy one just because they make good automobiles:0)

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I agree seems like alot of japanese and chinese companies do that tech tronic industries for example make ryobi toro homelite and hoover and dirt devil vacuums then milwaukee tools and maytag appliances and lg that company is becoming a giant