Happy Labor Day! There aren’t a lot of tool deals this year, but there are some that are worth noting.
Home Depot has tool deals of the day, ending at 3am ET 9/2/25. Their flash sale focuses on cordless outdoor power tools, including pressure washers, Milwaukee M18 Fuel chain saws, leaf blowers, and other fall cleanup tools.
Lowe’s decided to sit this one out and has flash sales on Halloween decorations, landscaping products, and home goods.
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Harbor Freight has 10% off one item for everyone, or 20$ off for Inside Track Club subscribers.
I spoke with a store manager a few years back, and they said that Labor Day is a bigger sales event for their store than Black Friday. I’m not seeing a lot of deals there this year, but this coupon offer is better than nothing.
I was hoping for a deal on certain Icon tools, but even with 10% off they’re more expensive than previously.
Acme Tools – buy more, save more on select Dewalt tools (up to $75 off $499+)
KC Tools Labor Day Sale – discounted pricing on select Wera, Knipex, and other European hand tool brands. (Be sure to double check pricing – KC Tool is awesome and often has good deals, but not everything is the lowest you can buy it for, even on sale.)
Amazon Labor Day Sale – save on no-name junk, with some imported Dewalt shop vacuum deals mixed in.
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Labor Day Sales Price Hikes
Home Depot has the Dewalt DWS779 miter saw with a folding stand for $549. The Dewalt miter saw is typically a seasonal promo for $399. It’s now $449. The bundle has consistently been $499, and as low as $459 for flash sales such as on Black Friday. It was on sale for $469 in July as part of a deal of the day promo.
Home Depot has the Dewalt DWE7491RS table saw with rolling stand as a special buy for $649. That’s what its regular price used to be when it was discounted to $599. Now, Dewalt bumped up the “was” price to $699.
The Husky 270pc mechanics tool set is $119, which it has been since Father’s Day, compared to its typical promo price of $99. Lowe’s has their 297pc mechanics set at $99.
You can get the Milwaukee M18 9-tool cordless power tool combo kit at $599 from Home Depot. This is the same price as their Black Friday and seasonal deals, but the model number is new (2697-29), and it seems the battery sizes have been downgraded.
The Milwaukee M18 Fuel 7-tool cordless combo kit is a $1249 special buy right now. It was $849 a few months ago.
Lowe’s has the Dewalt 12V Xtreme cordless drill and impact driver combo kit for $229, and it’s bundled with a free battery.
Home Depot and Lowe’s both have the entry level Dewalt cordless drill kit for $129. Amazon has it for $117. I can’t recall a time when this kit wasn’t regularly $99.
That it’s a “$179 value” doesn’t change the fact that you’re now paying $30 more. They’re calling this a “special buy” at $129 and that it “was $179.”
Home Depot raised the price of their Dewalt 20V Max 7-tool cordless power tool combo kit special buy to $599. It’s regular promo price has been $499. Acme Tools comes closer, with $75 off thanks to today’s flash sale.
There are still some Labor Day tool deals at Home Depot and Lowe’s, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find good bargains. Shop carefully.
Hopefully all of these “deals” are intended balance against actual deals in November when the holiday season promos are revealed.
GC
Saw the Ryobi pressure washer sale. Are you writing an article on their recall after they exploded causing injuries? Curious to see if you had any other insights.
Stuart
Thanks, will look into to it! Ryobi hasn’t told us anything about recalled exploding pressure washers.
Jonathan OAF
Same goes for lawn mowers now as of yesterday.
S
I’m seeing what I consider a lot of environmental effects of the current climate.
Everyone seems to be discounting less, and preparing for rough seas for the next couple years.
I really think Lowe’s is in a worse overall position than home depot, so to see them sit this sales event out, and home depot’s sales being tepid this time around, does not signal a strong sales environment for the rest of the year.
fred
I also have noted that discounts seem to be more “flash sales” – lasting 1 day or less. This was often the case before – perhaps when stock ran out – or revenue goals were met – but it seems to be happening more often.
On Friday Acme had a 12% off deal on Milwaukee
On Sunday they were doing 20% off on power tool accessories
Today it has changed again
On Saturday – MaxTool announced a Labor Day sale with 15% off on many Milwaukee power tools. That deal seems to have gone now that it’s actually Labor Day
Bonnie
My intuition tells me short term sales are designed to get people to buy who are otherwise likely to sit the sales out. With this much conomic uncertainty I expect fewer folks are looking at week-long sales and filling their carts. But spotting a sudden “save now one day only” may be enough to get over their increased activation threshold.
fred
You may be correct – especially for folks who are subject to the FOMO syndrome.
Plain+Grainy
I get excited about items I need or want. But that’s a limited menu.
S
Relevant to what I said, I later visited politico, and they had an article on exactly that. The article talks about how many business owners are frozen(specific items only come from china, like it or not), specifically due to component availability and rule-whiplash(production
takes time, and rules are being made faster than production plans can be made, which makes businesses fearful of altering production locations on ‘monday’ to have a new rule put into place ‘tuesday’), which is going to have a drastic effect on the product availability and prices we see as consumers.
From a business standpoint, it’s far better to continue with production as established with a known increase, and pass those costs on. The alternative is to move the ‘ball game’ and get shocked by an entirely different set of rules and costs after the move.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/31/were-trapped-trumps-tariffs-lock-us-businesses-in-china-00535666
This year’s upcoming holiday sales are going to be interesting
Jason Young
Did you catch that $518 price on the 6″ chainsaw + 2 5.0Ah HO batteries?
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwaukee-M12-FUEL-6-in-12V-Brushless-Cordless-Battery-Pruning-Hatchet-Mini-Chainsaw-w-2-5-0Ah-High-Output-Batteries-Charger-2527-20-48-59-2450P/336303450
Clearly that wasn’t the sale price – because it’s still in the catalog at that price. Just a few weeks ago it was on a special buy day for $199 (I bought it because that was a pretty good deal).
I know HD and Milwaukee both have some weird pricing glitches in these listings from time to time and it’s not abnormal, but it seems a bit worse now in with the mix and match of tariff pricing popping on in fits and starts.
I wouldn’t want to be a pricing manager in any of these orgs right now.
Stuart
Maybe they meant for a deal on just the chainsaw, which is $199 today by itself. Home Depot pricing is inexplicable at times.
Clay
Not sure if Labor Day sale, but Lowes had good prices on EGO chainsaws and I picked up an 18″.
Sold out online, but might have stock locally, if you are in the market.
Also, sale goes into October, so maybe they will restock?
AP
$518 for an M12 chainsaw and 2 batteries?