New Ridgid Welders! Is Home Depot going to kill off another American tool brand?
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Out of nowhere it seems RIDGID is now making welders and when we go to Home Depot, we see some interesting information. In the past couple years, Home Depot has killed off several brands in order to make room for TTI alternatives. Are Lincoln welders next? 
I recently watched a video of a bunch of Pakistanis making hammers. They were all in the room tossing around glowing red hammer heads and using huge air hammers to shape them while nobody was wearing any sort of safety glasses, and most of them were just wearing sandals on their feet. Places like that with guys working in them like that are who we are competing with. Next time you join a union and threaten to go on strike, that’s where your job is going too!
I'm betting money that TTI is paying a lot of money to home depot to push the smaller American brands out.
Looks like someone is afraid of Harbor Freight and their growth
Hey bear, my HD did a huge clearance and I missed it. We have no welders here in lubbock. It all makes sense now.
Love how we trade with Red China but not Cuba….
Such a random comparison
what was the point of the Cold War
When you realize politics is just schoolyard it makes sense.
We can bully Cuba so we do.
I got the RMP-140 a couple months ago to try out. It is absolutely an orange Forney Easy Weld 140 MP. I checked the manual page by page and the only thing different is RIDGID in place of Forney in the naming, every instruction is identical and every page is the same between the two. Forney has a good history and I thought this was a solid machine for its intended use. HD was a little lower price at the time than the Forney.
I sent forney a video message of my welder and reciept not burning right cuz of the gun jamming of a kink in the middle and after them tryna help me to find out it wasnt user error they sent me a whole new gun awesome company
@@FirstnameLastname007 Good to hear that they support their machines.
My local HD sold Ridgid pipe wrenches, made in USA. About 3 years ago I noticed that the Ridgid wrenches are gone, replaced with Chinese made tools. HD puts American jobs in jeopardy just to make a few bucks more.
I noticed yesterday in Home Depot there was nothing Lincoln electric anymore all welders gloves wire and any other welding supplies were all rigid brand curious to see how these welders do I have a Lincoln hd3200 I bought probably 20 years ago from lowes it’s still running like the day I bought it I don’t plan on replacing it does mostly everything I need it to but these rigid ones caught my interest
I mean look at the lincoln welders at HD. They have A LOT of dust on em. The kind of people that use lincoln are buying them from Airgas with a corporate account. Chinesium welders are pretty good these days and unless you're welding everyday all day, you don't need the duty cycle that comes with the lincoln/Miller at 4x the price point. And let's be serious here. "American" welders aren't really. They're using rhe same components as the Chinese are. The "manufacturer" is just putting components from elsewhere in a box the same way the people that build their own PCs do.
UP here in Canada its Husky branded welders .. but both are being made by Forny and also Century. for home depot under both brands
My friend just went to Home Depot to buy Lincoln electric gloves and all got replaced with rigid
TTI has employees working at Home Depot. A buddy of mine is one.
I do not think the Bear missed out on this because he was asleep, I do think the Bear missed out on this because much like a lobster boiled in water he would not notice until much later. This is happening up here in the great white north Canada as well.
nothing innovative, just a sticker put on a generic Chinese inverter welder
I wonder how good the plas cutter is and how much they cost
At 20 amps it's not going to be able to cut much more than sheet metal.
I purchased one and I'm excited about it.
looks like repainted Forney welders
Yes the rigid 140 the and the Forney 140 look very similar ,and the plasma cutters are pretty much identical
Claude Hopkins explained it all in his book “My Life I Advertising / Scientific Advertising.” The vendor is always going to have a house brand compete. M/r Hopkins explained the only way to beat that.
Is it the ridgid aka pipe threaders and plumbing tools/ machines company or the ridigid aka home depot brands?
Clickbait! The Homeless Despot wasn’t the only place to sell Lincoln welders, and I’m sure Lincoln Electric is not going anywhere anytime soon.
I'm a fan of Home Depot but not a fan of their actions like this. I prefer the historical brands in each category.
If they are eligible for the LSA I think they will definitely be worth it
Looks like they only have a 1 year warranty
It's been looking to me like RIGID have been slapping their name on alibaba imports for a while now. They're not the rugged tools maker my dad used for his plumbing and pipefitting. When I started buying my own tools I trusted the Rigid name because my dad did and his tools from the '70s still hold up, but the Rigid tools I bought have given up the ghost and the lifetime warranty is no more because apparently the lifetime warranty was only until they discontinue one chinese import in favor of another chinese import, so it was the lifetime of availability of the tool they slapped their logo on.
I trust the HF name more than I trust Rigid these days.
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I was able to see to model 90 on Home Depot through a a Google search, price is $299. I tried same search inside HD web site, no Ridgid welders showed up.
Do you think they pay a commission to harbor freight? Look like the same welders to me! 😅😅😅
Looks like same as Chinese Forney. Id buy one if I didnt already have 3 Lincolns.
already done the wire and consumables at my HD, Lincoln Wire is on clearance now
The Bear should test that these welders actually put out their claim outputs.
That' s funny - LMFAO - he is not a professional welder, doesn't have a clue how to do scientific testing, yet you will blindly trust what this guy that makes his living, (not as a professional that makes a living using tools) but as a youtuber, to tell you if is is good or not!
@@scotty362100 The Bear is an above average bear. I'm sure he already has a clamp on style multimeter that can measure AC/DC.
@@morenothing4u Spoken like a true groupie! Do you swallow too?
Is Home Depot partially owned by a Chinese company? Google says no, but their behaviour suggests otherwise.
Chinese or US owned - big companies don't care how they make their $. They go with the highest profit choice until outside pressure forces them to do something else
You throw out TTI like I'm supposed to know what that means. one of the rules of English speech and writing: The first time an acronym is used it must be defined. COME ON!!! DO BETTER!!!!
Huge Y.A.W.N.
I went in the HD app and it shows Ridgid Welders and price
No it doesn’t
Yes it does and says available at stores close t me
@@srogers88 i just looked too, they have ridgid welders, with prices, and i'm seeing reviews going back to last october
Yes it does, if you google it then it comes up in the app. It won't come up if you search it in the app. It even says that my local store has the rigid welders in stock.
Read through the reviews, I would not be surprised if they’re for Lincolns
Isn't Ridgid a TTI brand?
It's complicated, its homedepots brand but made by TTI, but only the orange. Rigid Red is made by someone else.
@@TheJttv And except the wet/dry vacs. AFAIK those are still made by Emerson Electric itself. Emerson owns the Ridgid (orange) brand and contracts with TTI to manufacture the orange Ridgid tools. Ridgid (red) tools, largely targeting plumbing professionals, are made by Ridge Tool company, which is itself owned by Emerson. It's practically a part time job keeping track of it all.