Cord / cordless band saw ?

Wht is better? Corded band saw or fule cordless 

There is no “better” it will depend on your circumstance. 

Are you used to Milwaukee fuel, is this why you ask? I don’t know what your situation is, you just now posted your first, so welcome aboard, tell us a little about yourself eh?

If you cutting a boat load of metal I would saw go corded or you may need quite the batteries, not sure how run time works out but if it’s for here and there I would think cordless would be sufficient.

Jimbo

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Yea I just joined I’m a student going to school to be an electrician or an hvac tech so the saw would be used for a wide range of things !

I’m a plumber with mechanical contractor, and I vote the Fuel would be best in our line of work!! Coworker has one and it is extremely versatile, he just needs to put a new blade on it already! It isn’t used for thicker metals a lot like a production shop, so if you can, get the Fuel definitely  

Thanks for your help and the cordless would be a good addition to my fule set and m18 hacksaw !

Yea fuel seems to be the way to go

Any opinion on the 4.0 or 5.0 compared to the regular xc battery are they worth the extra money?  

If it were me I would only consider a 5.0

You can get used to what you get, but if you had them for comparison, the saw will cut faster with the 5AH battery, and will last longer as well. And maybe consider the rapid charger as well!

I need a rapid charger, I have enough milwaukee chargers I could probably sell them and have enough for a rapid charger

Yea I have a friend that uses one because he has about 12 m18 battery’s and he likes it a lot and I will probably get one once I get a few more battery’s but right now I just have the two 4.0 that came with my fule drill and impact set 

If you have the 4ah batteries already, those will work perfectly fine, I have the same set of drill and driver and 4ah batteries too. Not like you really need to upgrade if you dont want to

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Personally I would wait until it is absolutely needed and then borrow one first. You are looking at dropping hundreds on a tool that as an HVAC tech would rarely get used. In my facility, an HVAC tech has needed to use a bandsaw exactly ZERO times in 20 years. An electrician would need one if it was new construction, but even then conduit can be cut quickly unless it is like 1″+ pipe. Heck, I just use a jigsaw for cutting all my copper and conduit. Does the same job much cheaper and has far more uses.

You have a point and it will depend on what field I go into but It would have plenty of uses in commercial wireing more so than residential and yes they are very expensive if they are not going to be used a lot 

Mike has a point, but the size is more of a problem for me than the price.  If you have to be mobile at all there are other tools you already have that can do the job.

Protool you so silly. .. I’ve used it just like this before on a job just like this:

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They make bases where you can use them as a shop band saw, not sure which models would fit

Here’s the like to the swag band saw stand and has a list of the models it works with

http://www.swagoffroad.com/SWAG-V30-Portaband-Table_p_55.html

I knew it was out there somewhere

Jimbo

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JimboS1ice wrote:

1 hour ago, JimboS1ice said:

They make bases where you can use them as a shop band saw, not sure which models would fit

They also make stands to use it as a horizontal bandsaw.  It’s a great replacement for a chopsaw on sites where grinding is not allowed.

jeffmcmillan wrote:

They also make stands to use it as a horizontal bandsaw.  It’s a great replacement for a chopsaw on sites where grinding is not allowed.

Yea I’ve seen Those too

Bringing this back to life because I’m anal about not starting new threads where not necessary ;D

Don’t mind the all caps “look at me” title. I like what he does, but his all caps titles and “clickbait” type captions made me unsubscribe….. Regardless this is pretty cool, as the comment above mentions about the swag stand

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Then one day I was just perusing the pages over at Toolbarn and found this:

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http://www.toolbarn.com/milwaukee-48-08-0260.html

Talked to toolpig on instagram and he says its a pretty good stand!

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Makita has a bench mount base that works with their cordless band saw also. It is available for order from Canadian sources but not in the US. Last I checked it cost over five hundred clams to acquire, so not worth chasing after. I had a bad case of sticker shock when I got the quote on it…

Be a man get a Metabo 

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Seriously though get the fuel Milwaukee.

Might as well get the Powermatic PM2415B-3, 24″ BANDSAW, 5HP 3PH 230/460V. A bit cumbersome to take to the jobsite but will cut through almost anything. A little expensive though.

Jronman wrote:

1 hour ago, Jronman said:

Might as well get the Powermatic PM2415B-3, 24″ BANDSAW, 5HP 3PH 230/460V. A bit cumbersome to take to the jobsite but will cut through almost anything. A little expensive though.

 Personally this seems like the opposite of what I would want. To each his own though.

First it’s 230/460v which is three phase. Good luck finding that on a jobsite.

Second it is stationary. No way anybody moves that after they install that. Much less brings it on a crawlspace. Handheld seems the only format a tradesmen would want. 

Third it’s a woodworking saw. There is no way you would use that vertical style band on most metal applications.

 Fourth it’s six thousand dollars. “might as well” buy a five tool fuel combo kit, fuel deep cut bandsaw, M12 bandsaw, M18 propress tool, M18 and M12 pex expanders and some other tools for not even close to that.

I have both the corded one, and the cordless. (older, not the fuel m18)

The cordless works just fine. I cut all types of angle iron, uni-strut, threaded rod, rebar. It does just fine. The corded one doesn’t see the light of day anymore.

Yeah I need portability….. The fuel will ultimately be the one I get… probably!

But it won’t work for a lot of my applications tho honestly…. crawlspace or attic up against a joist etc… only a sawzall will work to cut out the old cast iron pipes. What a band saw will be good at tho is installing of punched angle iron and threaded rod etc, out in the open

Stercorarius wrote:

20 hours ago, Stercorarius said:

 Personally this seems like the opposite of what I would want. To each his own though.

 

First it’s 230/460v which is three phase. Good luck finding that on a jobsite.

 

Second it is stationary. No way anybody moves that after they install that. Much less brings it on a crawlspace. Handheld seems the only format a tradesmen would want. 

 

Third it’s a woodworking saw. There is no way you would use that vertical style band on most metal applications.

 

 Fourth it’s six thousand dollars. “might as well” buy a five tool fuel combo kit, fuel deep cut bandsaw, M12 bandsaw, M18 propress tool, M18 and M12 pex expanders and some other tools for not even close to that.

I was trying to be funny.

Jronman wrote:

8 minutes ago, Jronman said:

I was trying to be funny.

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Stercorarius wrote:

14 hours ago, Stercorarius said:

 

Totally missed the sarcasm also….. @Jronman lol!