Rotary Hammer Drill

listermint

Any recommendations, I've various drills outside. And went through two cheap rotary hammers in quick succession. They were bought for specific tasks and tbf got a hammering excuse the pun.

Main use for a decent one will be that it can chip away at render or plaster and would chip away at a path if needed. Something that's not going to turn to mush quickly. Cheap ones did above but bearings for retaining the chisels in gave way.


Was thinking along these lines


https://www.screwfix.ie/p/makita-hr3210c-2-5-6kg-electric-sds-plus-drill-240v/51574

Anyone used one. Or similar recommendations

listermint

I guess no one's uses hammer drills around here :P

Calahonda52

listermint wrote: »

I guess no one's uses hammer drills around here :P

did you not notice the silence


I have 4 different ones, depending on jobs, from chisels on an sds drill up to the Hilti t1000 back breaker: I sold it to my brother in law but still get access to it
One is a makita, "kango" only, no drill: works very well

Lumen

FWIW I used a cheap corded Makita SDS drill with chisel bit to take down a wall and break up the foundations underneath and it worked great, but then it was stolen so I never found out how durable it was. :rolleyes:

listermint

Lumen wrote: »

FWIW I used a cheap corded Makita SDS drill with chisel bit to take down a wall and break up the foundations underneath and it worked great, but then it was stolen so I never found out how durable it was. :rolleyes:

Maybe it was stolen because its was durable

The Continental Op

My only concern about paying that sort of money for a good tool that the primary use is for chipping away at render or plaster would be that you are putting a lot if sideways pressure on the bit holder. That might be OK on a decent tool like that but on the cheaper tools its the quickest way I know to make the bit holder really sloppy.

glynf

listermint wrote: »

Any recommendations,...

.....Was thinking along these lines


https://www.screwfix.ie/p/makita-hr3210c-2-5-6kg-electric-sds-plus-drill-240v/51574

Anyone used one. Or similar recommendations

I picked up the smaller Makita HR2811 on amazon.de a few weeks back, mainly for removing old floor tiles and chipping away some old block work and plaster etc. found it excellent for these jobs, plenty of poke for the size of it.


I also had to chase a concrete floor for pipes as well, hired a heavy duty Hilti TE 70 & con saw for this, I would still be at it if I used the Makita

The Makita has hammer, rotary hammer & standard non-hammer rotary so I picked up a chuck and it worked great for mixing tiling adhesive with a paddle stirrer. I have a 22V hilti te4 for smaller stuff, but needed a mains drill with hammer only function, but the 240V Makita is dead handy for 14mm> with the SDS plus bits.