I pick & choose HFT purchases, and I have a pair of the large water pump pliers as-well as other Doyle brand pliers. You can see below the water pump slip-joint pliers, a pair of double-jointed needle-nose pliers in straight and curved configurations. All of them are good-performing, the finish is holding-up, and they sit in south Florida heat and humidity, un-air-conditioned, so a bit of surface rust is going to happen.
The hand and electric tools I've bought from HFT have always done what I needed to-do, and I am not disappointed in their longevity. I have a Chicago Electric orange-body side-grinder, I use either 4" or 4-1/2" cut-off wheels/grinding wheels, and while I've had-to finally make a
kludge-fix to them after a carbon brush button came-adrift, they're still doing duty with no issues.
I bought a Harbor Freight demo hammer-drill in SDS-MAX size, 8-1/2 amps, which has saved me thousands of dollars on demo work and new construction, and their bits in SDS-MAX have likewise held-up. I did buy a Bosch SDS-MAX bit as a back-up, but so-far, I haven't had to put it to-use. It cost me > 1/2 the price I paid for my HFT demo hammer-drill.
I was sinking 5/8" threaded HILTI anchors to fasten a PT footer-board to a recent concrete pour. I was using a sub-contractor recommended by the building supplier (a 10' X 20' Hardi-Board sided standing seam seal roof, roll-up OH door building) and his P.O.S. DeWalt cordless tools were useless, he couldn't drill even one hole full-depth, and when I saw him start hammering-in those expensive HILTI threaded anchors into partially-drilled concrete holes, where the anchors 'set' well-before the threads came-close to the PT boards, I fired him on the spot. My HFT demo hammer-drill did all the holes in probably 30 minutes, perfectly. Harbor Freight Tools corded tool 1; DeWalt cordless tool 0!
