Makita Just Released The WORLDS MOST POWERFUL CORDLESS IMPACT WRENCH (Review)

If you thought my last video with the 40 volt beam saw was big and heavy, well this thing is even heavier. God I love this saw. G'day guys, this video is going to be about numbers. There's going to be a lot of numbers in this video. If you don't like big numbers then turn away now. This video is going to be chock-a-block full of numbers and stats and shit like that. Look at the size of this. We will get to that later in the video. That's two and a half inches. This thing is a beast. What does it actually look like? Well it looks... Let me tell you the first number. The first number I'm going to tell you is 11. This thing is 11 kgs without a battery. That's over 24 pounds. This thing is heavy but it needs to be heavy because it can do some other really big numbers. If you see on the box here, down here, 4000 newton meter nut busting torque and I know it can do more than that. And maximum fastening torque 3150, it might be able to do more than that too. We need to get this over to Torque Test Channel don't we? Let me know down in the comments if you think I should send this to him once I've finished having a bit of a play with it here. I know he's keen to get his hands on one of these so let me know if you think I should send it to him or whether I should make him wait. Let me know down below. Anyway I'm not going to make you wait any longer. There it is. There's the beast. Let's bring her forward into shot. She is heavy and she is big. I mean look at the front of this thing. Look at the girth. That is, wow, I can't even get my hands right around it. Almost, not quite. It is almost comically big you know. When you're used to just using small impact drivers and impact wrenches, when you see something like this, it's just massive. It's got a huge rubber boot on the front here. Now as you can see this is the long anvil version. There is a short stubby one as well but it hasn't been released here yet, it's still a few months away. So this is the only one available at the moment but all the numbers I'm going to tell you in this video, apart from the weight, that one is of course a bit lighter because you've got that much less steel hanging off the front of it. It's very front heavy this thing, without a battery on it it just wants to fall forward. But yeah the stubby one, all the specs are the same, same nut busting torque, all that sort of stuff, settings all the same. It's just got a different length anvil. Before I get into any more numbers I want to just stick some batteries on it and just see what it looks like because this is going to make some of these batteries that we thought were previously big, look rather small. So let's start with the 2.5. So there she is with the 2.5 on it, almost looks comically small that battery, like you've stuck the wrong battery on it. Doesn't look like it's made to fit on that tool. Looks like the battery should come out here somewhere. Next up the 4 amp power tabless. Lots of the world now finally getting these things. They've been available here for about 18 months now. Now they're finally available in the UK and many other countries in Europe. Canada I see now have got them and I think finally even the USA has them but let me know down below if you've actually managed to find one in the US yet. I still get lots of people complaining they can't find them anywhere. So if you've got one of these and you live in the US let me know down below. Right that's the 4. Now let's start getting to the batteries. It might look like they come prepared for this tool. That's getting a bit closer eh? A bit more like what it should be. Big buddy battery for a big buddy tool. And the 8. You're gonna have to make sure you've been working out to lug this around because that's now the best part of 13 kgs or like about a million pounds. It is a big heavy unit. I can't even tilt that back onto the battery one-handed. Holy moly that's heavy. She is a beast. Can't wait to put this on but first a few more numbers and a look at some more of the features. The battery mount area for obvious reasons is well cushioned. This is a huge bumper here. Look at this rubbery bugger and this is all got a bit of suspension in it and it's all reinforced with steel. It is a pretty solid thing. You can see springs in there, look at that. You want it to be like that though because this is, well if it didn't have all this, would bash the living daylights out of your batteries and you don't want that. But yeah we've got a lot of things going on here. Up here with the handle, turn the knob and it's got a few detents where it'll sort of click in place and you can just lock it off wherever you want. Top, bottom, side, you know pretty standard sort of stuff. In fact I'll lock it back on the bottom just because it's easier for displaying the tool because it helps prop it up like so. Oh and of course it goes, gear arm out of the way tools, it goes back and forward as well so slightly forward like that is the best for having it on a bench to show people. Up here we have the forward and reverse switch, a little bit different to the standard sort of push through from left or right side like on smaller impact wrenches. This one, three of them which I'll explain in just a second after I show you the big old ring here to hang it up. It is solid this tool and it's got a big solid ring there. This is steel with a bit of TPE overmolding for protection there. The big rubber boot on the front comes off so you want it to look a bit more, a bit more manly. You could take that off, would help cool it a lot better if you had that off but if you want to grip it at this point then having that rubber boot or TPE boot over the top will make it much nicer to grip. It's got a raised bit here to locate it on the tool but we'll put that back on in a moment. We'll now go back to the trigger here and the control panel but for that we really need to put a battery on this thing. And when you put the batteries on, make sure you click it all the way because it's got that spring loaded bit, you need to push it in past the spring until it clicks in. It's quite tight, PA630 glass as you can see there. Now when we've got it in this position it is forward, pretty basic, that position reverse and in the middle we have something that I'll show you in just a second but first we'll talk about the trigger. So variable speed in both directions but you can set it so that it's just on max speed no matter what so as soon as you touch the trigger it just ramps straight up to full whack and if you've got it in the middle you can use it as a torch because this is one of the best ring lights you ever will see. Look at that puppy, hello. Look at the diameter of this thing, it's huge. Three different settings there, leave it on the bright mode. So if you have it on that middle setting there, that sort of neutral position on most tools, then you can leave that light on for an hour, stay on for an hour, how good is that? Now taking a look at the control panel, if you've got a high end Makita impact wrench or impact driver then you'll be familiar with this style of control panel, just pull the trigger there and on come the lights. Currently in setting 4 there is three other settings of course, they count down from top to bottom, 4, 3, 2, 1, which is kind of annoying, I prefer it the other way around personally, but anyway in setting 1 it's 1200 impacts per minute in setting 2, 1300 impacts per minute in setting 3, 1500 impacts per minute and top whack, 1750 impacts per minute. As for speed, in speed 4 you're looking at 1200 revolutions per minute and then it drops down to 850, 700 and 600 on setting 1. So that's the basic speed functions but there is also of course other modes. We've got bolt release mode and bolt tighten mode. So if you push the mode button, you have the option of going through these three here. So on number 1 the impact force is the same as setting 2. Now this is driving a nut on, so going clockwise and if you were taking it off or counter clockwise, then it will be in impact force 4 and the tool will stop automatically as soon as it stops impacting. In bolt release mode 2, the tool will be in speed 3, getting confusing and in speed 3 the tool will stop approximately half a second from the moment that the tool starts impacting when you're putting a nut on. If you're releasing a nut, it'll be on speed 4, all of the bolt releases are speed 4 if you're going in reverse, and that'll stop impacting about .2 of a second after the tool stops impacting as it's trying to take a nut off. And then in mode 3, those ones for some reason go up 1 2 3 whereas the other ones go down 4 3 2 1. I guess that helps you recognise which setting you're on if you're pushing buttons and you think hang on a minute, it's going the opposite direction, you can easily tell, oops I'm in the wrong mode type. Anyway in the top one, number 3, it's on full whack and it'll go for approximately a second after it starts impacting before it cuts out so it'll get everything on a bit tighter and if you are taking something off, the tool will slow down the rotation after it's stopped impacting. Instead of just cutting out altogether, it'll just go slow so you can slowly wind your nut off. Right, did we get all that? Now if we hold our finger on the mode button for a second or two, this light here comes on, we're now in full whack mode like I mentioned earlier. So now as soon as I pull the trigger, there's no variable speed, doesn't matter where I have the trigger, actually there is a slight difference speed there, you can do it slow but it kicks into the full one pretty quick. You have to be pretty gentle on it to get it to go the slowest speed. Basically it's just meant to be full whack. So those are your settings. Push the mode button again and that turns off, push this button again and we turn off this little light here so we're now back to standard speeds. Let's try that on that with this on. Yeah there's still control over the speed, it's just not as nice, it goes into full lock earlier on. If we turn that off, yeah, jumps into full whack just a little bit quicker. So if you're only ever going full whack then you can just leave it on that. Now I think that's all I need to tell you about this thing, that's the settings and all the numbers I can think of for the moment. So let's put the boot back on this thing and chuck that big bad boy down there on and see if we can find something to do up. I think I'm going to have to go and bolt something to my driveway. Normally when I do that sort of thing I wait until the wife's not here but she's still home. Hopefully I'll get away with it. These bolts are about one and three quarter inch or M42. They are massive and these nuts require a two and a half inch socket. Look at the size of that big bad boy. That's an extra kg of weight on the damn tool before you even start. Not a lot I can test here of course but I can feel it, I can hear it, I can sense the power. Time for action. I'm going to try the three bolt release modes. We'll go both directions on and off to see how it feels. Decided to go with the safety boots again today because you don't want to drop even one of these nuts on your foot. It'll hurt like hell. So are we ready? Let's go. I'm going to start with this one. In three, two, one. Bang. Done. Stopped pretty damn quick. Let's stick her in reverse and that stopped automatically as well. So that works. Let's try mode two and on we go. A few more whacks that time and off. Went a bit longer and mode three on. Quite a bit more there. Yeah quite a bit more before it stops and in reverse. It's that slow down for winding off the nut like I spoke about. Now I'm going to chuck her in full whack and just stick it on and vibrate the hell out of myself. Put it in the right direction might Wow. That certainly affected my vision. My eyeballs are shaking around in my head. Holy moly. And in reverse. She's a beast. She's a big old beast. Setting one. Setting two. It's beginning to shake my plate off the ground here. Setting three. Now I know this thing can take these nuts off when they're tightened to 4,200 Newton meters. Now I don't have any gear to tighten that up and if I do go get the gear to tighten it up I'm not going to be able to afford to make any videos for a few months. So I'll leave that to somebody else. But there is something else I've been thinking about trying. You might be able to see in the background there. So why don't we have a crack at that. Come out you bugger. There we go. Top setting. Time. I'm sweating after using that thing. How did I get so dirty using a brand new tool? Right this is the thing I want to test next. Do you think it can drive one of these big ground screws? Now if you've been a follower of the channel for a while you may have seen me try a few different things with impact wrenches with very little success. So even though this thing's a beast I'm not 100% sure it's going to be able to do this. But let me go find my adapter I made at the beginning of the video and we'll put it to the test. In three, two, one. What's that Tony? Hey that's a good idea mate. See you all tomorrow.