Over at Lowe’s, they a fantastic Dewalt Xtreme 12V Max cordless power tool combo kit has returned for the Father’s Day 2021 deals season.
Quite a few readers emailed or messaged me about this bundle last winter when it appeared around Black Friday, but by the time I took a look it was too late. So, I’ve been watching and waiting for it to appear for Father’s Day, and it has!
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This Dewalt Xtreme combo kit, DCKSS200F2, comes with their compact brushless drill, compact brushless reciprocating saw, and a backpack tool case.
The kit is bundled with a charger and 2x 2.0Ah Li-ion batteries.
Other Dewalt tool dealers have this same combo priced at $239.
I love this drill, and the kit is usually a great deal when it goes on sale for $149 for the holidays. With this kit, you basically get the drill kit, plus the compact reciprocating saw bare tool for just $50 more, and there’s a backpack on top of all that. Just the drill and recip saw for $149 would be a great deal, but the tool backpack seems to be a nice addition.
Special Buy: $149
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If you want to dip your toe into Dewalt 12V Max waters, Lowe’s also has the Xtreme brushless drill kit and impact driver kit for $99 each. $99 is seasonal pricing on these kits, and it looks like Lowe’s is the only one is offering the promo pricing for Father’s Day thus far.
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Corey Moore
It’s a great little drill, it’ll drain that 2ah pretty easily though with sustained use. Can’t speak to the recip, chose the atomic myself so I could use high capacity packs with the generally power hungry nature of saws. I hear they’re pretty comparable, though and the 12v 5ah’s would do nicely to compliment both these tools.
Clay
This is a pretty good deal.
Back in the spring, they had the drill and impact kits listed for $99 with a free 5AH.
The bare tool one hand recip was also $99 with a 5AH.
Fm2176
Not bad, I ordered one for $142 total (gotta love the online military discount Lowe’s offers)! I have the old 12v Max tools, and can gift my drill and the pivoting recip, along with a few more batteries, to a friend.
Matt J.
Favorite thing about this isn’t the tools but the actually-useful tool storage instead of the typical blowmold case. Makita has done this a bit (although the lunchbox ones were terrible) and obviously the Systainer/L-Boxx tools were better, but it’s a trend I’d like to see continue for both practicality and environmental waste reasons.
MM
I agree with your comments on the packaging. In my opinion dedicated hard cases only make sense for those tools which have a very large number of accessories/attachments one needs to keep at hand & well organized, or particularly delicate accessories that need the protection of a hard case. A tool bag makes far more sense for 99% of the tools out there.
Many years ago when my tools were mostly corded and I had a spattering of the old 18V Ni-Cd cordless models I accumulated a huge stack of those black Dewalt “suitcase cases” in a workshop storage room. Most of them did nothing but waste space. There were two exceptions: my rotary hammer, in which case I stored my bits and a homemade ground rod driver in the box with the tool, and my big plunge router so I could keep different bases, a circle cutting jig, and commonly used bits together with it. Since then I have accumulated several of the cloth Dewalt tool bags….yet I actually use those. Right now the only “hard cases” I use other than my roll-around chest is a tackle box for my die grinders & their tooling/accessories, and a dewalt toughsystem box fitted with my commonly used drill/driver bits and accessories.