Writing in a recent Tools of the Trade post, Nathan Rinne, owner of Rinne Trimcraft, takes the latest Metabo HPT Multivolt table saw for a spin on site:
If you had told me 10 years ago we’d have battery-operated saws with long run times that in many cases outperform their corded counterparts, I would have probably told you to keep dreaming. Even a few years ago when companies started offering these big-battery tools, I was still a skeptic. I saw them as a gimmick that likely performed nowhere near the claims they were making. It took running a substantial amount of oak through a buddy’s DeWalt FlexVolt table saw for me to realize it is actually a viable option.
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