Home Depot BF: Shop vac $27, 18v DeWalt Drill $99, Ladder $59

[flot]

Wandered out to Home Depot this morning, saw 3 good deals in their Black Friday sale.

$27 -12 Gallon Rigid 6 hp shop vac. This is a nice full size shop vac with accessories. Great deal for under $30.

$99 - 18v Dewalt Cordless drill driver w/2 batteries. I ALMOST picked one of these up, I have one that I have used for the last 3 years and it is great. $99 is a good price for a good tool.

$59 - FW is obsessed with this - it's the adjustable Gorilla ladder. Looks like a nice ladder, in "A" configuration it is 6.5' tall, as a straight ladder it is 13' tall. However the nice thing is that it folds up to be just an XL stepstool.

Wouldn't normally post these since I know BF is an "event" but I was plesantly surprised to walk into my local HD this morning 2 hours after they opened and find everything there and the store NOT overrun with freaks trampling people.

 

[NAC]

I have a Dewalt 18v drill, and assume it is the same model. Very happy with it. Uh... I think I paid like $180 for it 4 months ago....

 

[motoxpress]

Nice deals.

-mx

 

[Crackabot]

I have a Rigid Shop vac and that is a fantastic deal.

 

[allisolm]

I was at Home Depot when it opened today - (went for the garage door opener reg $130 for $87) and those ladders were flying out the door. I bought 2 last year at HD and they are handy for the foldupableness, foldupability, whatever, but they're heavy.

 

[tfinch2]

Home Depot was great. I showed up around 8, the place was a ghost town and they still had everything except for the shop vac. I got the 12V Skil Drill for $19. I was going to get the shop vac if they had it but it's no biggy.

 

[Mermaidman]

Our Home Depot was out of the vac, but I found a 'ShopVac' 12 gallon at Lowes for $29.97. This was at 11 AM. This was the only thing I wanted for BF!

 

[coomarlin]

Originally posted by: Mermaidman
Our Home Depot was out of the vac, but I found a 'ShopVac' 12 gallon at Lowes for $29.97. This was at 11 AM. This was the only thing I wanted for BF!

Yeah I picked up the same vac from Lowes. Lowes is about 1/2 mile away and HD is about 20 miles away. So I went with the Lowes and the 12 gallon shop Vac.

 

[flot]

Originally posted by: coomarlin
Yeah I picked up the same vac from Lowes. Lowes is about 1/2 mile away and HD is about 20 miles away. So I went with the Lowes and the 12 gallon shop Vac.

I saw that in the ad - the Lowes vac looks cooler but technically speaking the HD one had better specs. (although I doubt it'd be worth a 20 mile drive) The HD one is 5 hp (compared to 4) and I believe has a larger diameter hose. The HD one also got really good reviews for its ability to suck up water (people were even talking about draining their hot tubs with it?!?)

Anyway just unpacked the HD one and I'm very impressed. I had the bad idea of using it around the house where it sucked my carpet right off the tack-strips. But it collected an amazing amount of dust/fine sand/etc that my regular vaccum never got.