I own both of these saw and Makita win in every aspect. I gave my uncle the Milwaukee one. I'm heavily invested in both Makita and Milwaukee M18 & M12 platform. I'm slowly leaning toward Makita and M12 (for home use). Going to give away most of my M18 to family and friends.

Dear Jon! I really like your videos, they are informative and understandable. I just bought the Milwaukee machine on the 6th, because I didn't know that a similar machine from Makita had appeared. But now that I have watched your video about the Makita machine, I have already written to the dealer that I want to replace the Milwaukee with a Makita. Its tests are also realistic and talk about usability, not unnecessary information. I'm a mechanic myself and it was cool to see how he cuts the pipe overhead and how the one-handed mode works. This is a real everyday situation. And it doesn't matter what load a tired hand gets. I liked it :) Keep it up, you're doing great! Regards from Hungary

You're the only guy doing this, Thank you Jon from the US. New subscriber here

Appreciate an actual side by side of these two. I'm heavily invested in cordless Makita, and I started into Milwaukee a while back and decided to stick with Makita when they came out with some 5.0 battery combo deals. This recip saw is one of the 2-3 tools I was waiting for Makita to come out with before I could get rid of the rest of my Milwaukee's. I got the basic cordless right angle to replace the hole hawg, and I was waiting on lights, a cordless die grinder and this and they've finally got all of that. Side note- the Hackzall is name as their smaller version of their Sawzall which is sort of the main name we've called normal sized recip saws forever in the US, like Skilsaws instead of.. whatever people call them. I also appreciated the vibration test as unscientific as it is, my dad's original sawzall and milwaukee sander would leave my hands tingling after a little bit of use and I knew it couldn't be good so I love Makita's AVT and worried when it wasn't on this like on my larger recip of theirs.

This is best honest review 👏 so practical

Thank you for the good work

Vibration test was ingenious!

It be nice to see the comparisons of the cuts between the two.

great comparison, also funny some point, cheers

Just got mine today!

Happy Holidays Jon (:

Just shows looks can be deceiving, Milwaukee looks the sturdier. Teal power!

Jon you really should but both model numbers in the title, you'll get more views because anyone interested can find the vid easier 🤗

best tool reviewer

Sold on the Makita after the Water test. im also a fanboy

I was going to give Milwaukee the win because of blade usage until the vibration test😅 makita>

Makita is the Nintendo of the power tool industry

I am a Makita guy. And the Makita has a belthook mount, for me very nice thing.

Good vid Jon. Not enough Makita Reviewers out there.