Thanks for this! My 263 has been serving me well since I bought it based on your videos. To me it only feels long once you hang a bit off the front. The tool itself isn't that big IMO. I've only reqlly had light use out of it so far. It'll probably outlast me at this rate. But nothing else I own short of a cold chisel and hammer could hqve done what I needed. The most work it's done so far has been with the tamping plate I made compacting dirt and also vibrating concrete footings to settle them :-)

I got the DCH263 - the "long" D-handle drill - for drilling granite down a mine for splitting boulders - drill sockets then put in feathers-and-wedge and hammer wedges 'til boulder splits. The power of the thing only came to me yesterday when I went to help a friend with a "domestic" job and with a 6mm masonry drill into block I had to so turn down the power to some tiny fraction of its full power. Previously only used down the mine, where it is "galloping" running a 12mm drill into the very hard tough granite of Carn Brea (Cornwall). It seems to be able to "overpower" a 6mm drill into granite - working under water flood to suppress dust also keeps the small drill cool enough to survive but it's tough on the drill bit. So realising how way way way up the scale this SDS drill is. Got it as is largest drill which takes a "small tool" battery. Which proves well sufficient. Wider view - my impression exactly matches yours - same drilling power into hard rock of a much more expensive "drop-motor" design. I think Tradesperson builder you would get the shorter drop-motor type for the "polite" domestic jobs - whereas the DCH263 is "the one" for any stonemasonry type work.

are you in brissy mate?