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I crossed the Rubicon and joined the red team for once 
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With tractors, I am always on the green team
(think agriculture: John Deere, and MV in OD) but this time ....
After spending a few weeks pondering what to buy and where to get the $$, by pure luck I came across a tool fair where all the big names were present: Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita, Metabo, Bosch, Hitachi. Close to Prague, where I had to go anyway for a meeting, so a good combo. With all these brands, I checked prices and performance of the most powerful battery-driven impact wrenches. All very close together but ....
Real green was not present, so in the end it came down to red and yellow. Milwaukee had some very mouth-watering offers that always bring you into problems back home, but I managed to get a hold on myself and went home only with the EU version of the M18 2763-22. The special fair price brought it down from a heart-stopping $$ 840 to $$ 600, just below the DeWalt DCF899P2 at $$ 630 (lousy exchange rate). The had a very nice combo set with 5 useful tools for $$ 1200, which is not in the books unfortunately. Whatever, Milwaukee it is.
I do have most of the normal wrench sockets in good quality hand tools. I am now looking at the specially hardened sockets for impact wrenches. We are going to take a lot of stuff apart, sand it, repair it, paint it and put it back.
Apart from the wheel nut socket (m38 in metric fits nicely), which SIZE sockets are being used the most for work on the 5-ton M5X?
Thinking wheel hubs and brake work, dissembling fenders and especially bumpers, winches ????
Which are the ones everybody has in hardened versions, the heavy use showing etc etc.
Unfortunately, the truck and my tools are far away from where I am, and even then, not sure which unexpected sizes I am going to find suddenly and if my metric sockets will fit the US nuts.
. With tractors, I am always on the green team
(think agriculture: John Deere, and MV in OD) but this time ....
After spending a few weeks pondering what to buy and where to get the $$, by pure luck I came across a tool fair where all the big names were present: Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita, Metabo, Bosch, Hitachi. Close to Prague, where I had to go anyway for a meeting, so a good combo. With all these brands, I checked prices and performance of the most powerful battery-driven impact wrenches. All very close together but ....
Real green was not present, so in the end it came down to red and yellow. Milwaukee had some very mouth-watering offers that always bring you into problems back home, but I managed to get a hold on myself and went home only with the EU version of the M18 2763-22. The special fair price brought it down from a heart-stopping $$ 840 to $$ 600, just below the DeWalt DCF899P2 at $$ 630 (lousy exchange rate). The had a very nice combo set with 5 useful tools for $$ 1200, which is not in the books unfortunately. Whatever, Milwaukee it is.
I do have most of the normal wrench sockets in good quality hand tools. I am now looking at the specially hardened sockets for impact wrenches. We are going to take a lot of stuff apart, sand it, repair it, paint it and put it back.
Apart from the wheel nut socket (m38 in metric fits nicely), which SIZE sockets are being used the most for work on the 5-ton M5X?
Thinking wheel hubs and brake work, dissembling fenders and especially bumpers, winches ????
Which are the ones everybody has in hardened versions, the heavy use showing etc etc.
Unfortunately, the truck and my tools are far away from where I am, and even then, not sure which unexpected sizes I am going to find suddenly and if my metric sockets will fit the US nuts.
brother? 
