Home Depot’s FREE cordless power tool offers, featuring Milwaukee, Dewalt, Ryobi, Ridgid, and Ryobi, are always among the best Black Friday deals every year.
Here’s how these tool deals work: you buy a select starter kit or cordless power tool combo kit, and you choose a free gift from a fixed selection of options.
Whether you’re looking to get new cordless power tool batteries, or have your eyes set on a new tool, these BOGO promos are going to be among the best tool deals and bargains of the year.
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While the deals are set to last throughout the holiday shopping season, supplies are sometimes limited. Home Depot has done a better job of building up inventory, but some of the free gift options and even some of the starter and combo kits tend to sell out every year.
Milwaukee Free Tool Deals
Milwaukee M18 Starter Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $199
Milwaukee M18 Brushless Hammer Drill and Impact Driver Combo Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $299
Milwaukee M18 Battery 3-Pack + 1 FREE Tool – $299
Milwaukee M18 Fuel Hammer Drill and Impact Driver Combo Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $399
The 3-pack of batteries is an online-only deal, and comes with 2x 5Ah batteries, a 6Ah High Output battery, and your choice of freebie.
The non-Fuel brushless 2-tool combo kit is new for this year, featuring the Milwaukee M18 compact brushless hammer drill, impact driver, and a mix of compact and high capacity batteries.
The standard M18 brushless 2-tool combo kit, with drill/driver and impact, and 2x compact batteries, is $179. Spending $120 more for the BOGO offer swaps the drill for the hammer drill, an upgraded battery, and a free bonus item. They’re both good values.
The selection includes a mix of M18 and M18 Fuel brushless options, and also accessories such as the worklight, radio, and inflator.
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Dewalt Free Tool Deals
Dewalt 20V Max Starter Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $199
Dewalt 20V Max XR Hammer Drill + Atomic Impact Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $299
Dewalt 20V Max 3-Tool Combo Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $399
Dewalt’s free gift selection includes all brushless power tools, including the DCF860 XR impact driver that was just released.
Ryobi Free Tool Deals
Ryobi 18V Starter Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $99
Ryobi 18V Drill & Impact Driver Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $199
Ryobi’s starter kit and free gift selection isn’t as good as last year’s, but this is still the best Ryobi 18V cordless power tool deal this holiday season.
Ridgid Free Tool Deals
Ridgid 18V Starter Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $149
Ridgid 18V Cordless Drill & Impact Driver Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $249
Ridgid seems to be a midway option for users who want better tools than Ryobi without having to budget as much as for Dewalt or Milwaukee.
Makita Free Tool Deals
Makita 18V 2-Battery Starter Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $199
Makita 18V 2-Tool Combo Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $399
The $199 starter kit comes with 2x 4Ah batteries and Makita’s slower 18V charger.
Last year’s $199 starter kit came with 2x 5Ah batteries, a rapid charger, and tool bag. If you’re not interested in the bonus item selection, Home Depot says that last year’s starter kit is on clearance in some areas in-store only. (My stores have it for $100, the price might be different elsewhere. That’s a great price for Makita 18V users who need more 5Ah batteries.)
Makita’s free gift options are on-par with last year’s.
Holiday 2024 Deal Guides
These links will take you to other ToolGuyd posts. They should be used for reference purposes, as many of the deals have ended or sold out.
Amazon Tool Deals
Harbor Freight
Lowe’s Tool Deals
Home Depot Tool Deals
Home Depot FREE Tool Offers
Dewalt Tool Deals
Milwaukee Tool Deals
20+ More Black Friday Tool Deals!
Woodworking Deals
Leatherman Deals & Freebies
Makita Tool Deals
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Robert
I tried looking at the “Dewalt 20V Max 3-Tool Combo Kit + 1 FREE Tool – $399” deal. It did take me to the correct Home Depot web page, but I could not find the model number of the hammer drill and impact drill. I saw in the Questions and Answers there that many reviewers had the same complaint. One said they counted 10 different model numbers in the answers. That is one pattern I’ve found on the HD site in general, the model numbers are often difficult to find.
AP
I couldn’t find anything either. Maybe contact chat support on the HD website. I did see everyone say that it is a killer deal.
Stuart
The kit (DCK320X1R1) is new and looks to be exclusive to Home Depot. I don’t see any obvious model numbers either.
To me, it *looks* like the kit comes with:
DCD996 XR 3-speed brushless hammer drill
DCF845 XR impact driver
DCS356 XR oscillating multi-tool
FlexVolt 9Ah Battery
6Ah Battery
Charger
Tool Bag
Sam
Unrelated but I spotted stealthmounts for craftsman and dewalt tools at my local Lowe’s here in IL. Didn’t know they were becoming a dealer!
Frank D
Nothing new under the sun with Ryobi. Ridgid, I could spring for that radio … except it gets a very bad rep for actual FM reception and BT range … and value for money is considered poor by people who have it / cheaper ordinary bt speakers do better.
Farkleberry
It seems like HD had better deals than Lowes in the past, but this year Lowes has a Dewalt $400 drill driver combo with 2 free tools (can choose same brushless recip and circ saw as HD).
Do you think HD will offer any better deals for actual Black Friday, or is this it?
I think it’s interesting that most of the best deals this year are kind of the same format – drill/driver kit and battery/charger kit BOGOS.
I understand you’re doing a round up of apples to apples, but besides the brushed LXT and $850 Milwaukee combo, I don’t remember seeing any ?basic 4+ tool kits with a drill, driver, circ and recip saw.
I get that you can do two BOGO’s getting 2 chargers and 4 batteries, but at least the Milwaukee and Dewalt are underwhelming.
Both the Milwaukee and the Dewalt will run $600 to get the basic 4 carpentry tools, and the Milwaukee doesn’t even offer a brushless circ saw. As is typical, I guess, all of the circ saws are 6 1/2″.
If you spend $600 over at Lowes on two BOGO’s, you’ll get the 2 chargers, 4 batteries and another free tool (2 in kit and 3 free = 5 total.)
At HD, a 2 BOGO Ridgid 4 piece is $400, but gets you 4 batteries and 2 chargers vs Lowes Dewalt 4 tool, 2 batts, 1 charger for $400.
Same story for Ryobi, only it’s $300.
I don’t know anything about these Ridgid or Ryobi tools (brushed or brushless, etc.?).
Stuart
There are plenty of 3pc, 4pc, 5pc and larger cordless power tool combo kits.
I’m still working on Dewalt and Milwaukee roundups. There are a couple of options for both. When you look at less popular brands, such as Bosch and Metabo HPT, that’s when it gets hard to find broader deal variety.
The Dewalt 3pc combo kit above is also a good starting point, getting you a decent 4pc combo kit with some room to grow.
If you want a 5pc combo kit or similar, wait until Black Friday or Cyber Monday and check out the deals of the day – there are always some bundles there.
I think there has been a departure from combo kit deals as these free bonus promos have increased in popularity.
Nathan
So far nothing appeals to me
MM
I plan on picking up a DCD1007 kit with the extra Powerpack battery, but otherwise nothing I’ve seen so far appeals to me either.
I could use another DCW600 trim router, and there’s a few other Dewalt tools I could be convinced to buy if the price was right, but none of the deals here appeal to me. And as with the last couple of years I’ve been looking out for deals on Flex as well, but I haven’t seen any appealing deals there either.
Stuart
Are you shopping for any cordless power tools?
Jim Felt
This thread reminds me of the marketing peril of the internet. Overexposure to literally anything and everything.
It’s really hard for marketers to break through with anything where a “tough crowd” like ToolGuyd is the venue.
Though on a “normal” ToolGuyd thread it’s great (for me) to read of new developments and new to me tools and products.
Ain’t the internet grand?
MFC
What all of these cordless power tool companies are missing out on, is mixing up the promotional tools they offer. I already have every tool that they keep showing for these promotions.
What if they included some tools that I didn’t have?
What if they included “prize packages” of misc. little stuff?
Buy the $199 Battery Two pack and get a work light, hammer, tape measure, utility knife, etc.
Move more of the little products at a good enough discount for people to want it, or at least give the opportunity for people that don’t want another Grinder/Router/Drill, etc.
I give out those little things at Christmas and randomly on the jobsite and if I got some batteries for myself and all of those smaller tools discounted…