re: My favorite tool

I have this, the Makita version, and a Panasonic drill and driver and treasure them both.

I’d bought a Makita set for a worker after the worker’s cordless drill passed on. I’d never used a driver before. When the battery on my cordless ran out, I borrowed the workers impact. My first thought was, “[w]hat was I thinking, not having one a couple years earlier?”

For comfort and battery life, I like my Panasonic a bit better, but none of them are indispensable and would be quickly replaced when they quit.

My Dewalt drill is waiting for me to rebuild the battery. It has the best chuck (a Jacobs) of the bunch, by far.