Hammer Drill VS Impact Driver | What's The Difference?

I'm Kenny from pro tool reviews and one of the questions we come across pretty frequently is what's the difference between a hammer drill and an impact driver so we're gonna answer that right now so I've got Milwaukee's gen3 m18 Fuel hammer drill and impact dread we're gonna run some tests and show you what the difference is between the different impact mechanisms in there this it's just for self-defense I've also got a random guy in the back we'll call him Clint and he's gonna be running sometimes for us so we don't get too far out in the left field so anyway just the basics here the impact driver has a rotational impact mechanisms hammer and an anvil and every time it rotates it slams against it to move the fastener forward in a hammer drill it's got a back-and-forth impacting motion and it's designed to help chip so but let's see what happens if you use both of them to do a fastening job and then we'll go outside we'll see what happens if you use both of them and concrete so I've got some quarter inch ledger screws here and we'll start with our impact driver make sure we're in high speed and I've got a full battery we're using Milwaukee's three amp hour high output batteries for this particular experiment alright so just get that to bite down alright random Clint are you ready ready alright three two one go [Music] - 78 - 78 he's also writing these down as we go so he can give us an average at the end yeah you ready ready 3 2 1 go - 58 - 58 all right are you ready yep 3 2 1 go - 45 - 45 all right now the impact driver is designed for fastening jobs like this and it's got a higher rpm than the hammer drill does but of course once it's under load things change so let's see what happens here and we're gonna make sure that we are in Hammer mode we want the impact action to be what we're looking at not just the rotation of the drill so in hammer mode again this is designed with a back and forth shipping motion so it's not necessarily gonna do us any favors in this again we'll just get it started you can hear that hammer action let me just double check and make sure we're in highest be there all right random Clint you ready mm-hmm 3 2 1 go [Music] 140 140 like one second point four yeah that's really fast ready yep three two one go Wow one-fifty one-fifty last one ready three two one go 135 135 all right Cliff's gonna do some math I'm gonna kind of break this down a little bit just to what I'm feeling as this is going obviously the drill is faster and if you look at back at our drill versus impact driver video you can see that's actually pretty consistent all right so the final numbers 2.6 seconds for our impact driver 1.4 - for our hammer drill but here's the thing we would never actually use the hammer drill mode to fasten in wood if we didn't want to use that we just throw it into the drill driver mode and that's the way to go so now let's take it outside of the concrete see what happens all right so we got a half-inch Bosch multi-purpose bit here that we're using to drill into concrete I'm gonna start with the impact driver remember that's got the rotational impact mechanism in it so I don't expect for it to give us a lot of help chipping into concrete like this but let's see what happens and the flags on here just to make sure that I go to the same depth with both of them all right Clint are you ready all right three two one go what you get 12:53 1253 all right and you can kind of hear it actually drilled pretty quick until the impact mechanism took over and then it really slowed down all right now that we've got our bit back let's go to the hammer July remember this one's got the the chipping impact motion so we expect this to be a lot faster than that twelve and a half seconds from the impact driver all right ready clip right three two one go [Music] 9:15 9:15 so a little more than a three-second difference there let's go unpack it all right so bottom line two different impact mechanisms this is rotational it helps more with your fastening and the big deal if why you want to use that even though it might be a little bit slower is because it's just putting less strain on your wrist and when you get into really long and really thick diameter fasteners it's going to make an even bigger difference in your driving speeds when it comes to drilling into concrete that's when you want to move to your hammer drill it's chipping action made it a lot faster than the impact driver was and of course it's helping to clear out that as you go to so you're getting an advantage over using just the drill driver mode now if you want to see the difference between the drill and the hammer drill we've got a video on that so be sure to check it out - that just made my day better anyway you got any questions feel free to leave them in the comments below I'm Kenny thanks for watching hey help us out by subscribing to the channel below and tap that bell to get notified when we post new tool reviews and shootouts and as always thanks for watching

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Length: 6min 11sec (371 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 25 2020