Yeah, once you get a few items, you get a few more, and a few more, etc. I started out with just a Husq 445 to cut down a couple rotten trees. This was after looking over all the crap saws at Sears, Menards, and a few other places. Stihl, was just too damned expensive. Toyed with getting a Dolmar 50-90cc saw, but it was just massive overkill for a couple of mostly dead silver maples, and there was no local retailer. Found a Husq dealer up north of town, and it just kinda went crazy from there.
Got a fiskars hatchet, a pole saw, a bow saw, found an electric chainsaw in some junk, ran that one into a ground, and got a craftsman electric 20amp circuit breaker tripping saw. Then as I got down to just stumps, then got some long drill bits, more and more potassium nitrate to dissolve said stumps, got some ryobi drills, and some impact drivers, some impact rated spade bits to go with the impact drivers, bigger drills, bigger bits, then a really big drill for the really big ship auger bits, bigger bits.... Just happened to pick up a $14 electric chainsaw at Aldi, which ended up there and on the discount rack due to some snafu.
From there more ryobi tools, a "turkey cutter" craftsman sawzall, a two handed ryobi sawzall, a heavy duty dewalt sawzall for cutting through nails and repair with carbide blades like this.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Diablo-N...de-Tipped-Metal-Recip-Blade-DS0014S/203464896 A ryobi circular saw, then an LED work area light, a black n decker weed whacker because it was cheaper to get a replacement battery for a different cordless drill by buying the whole things on sale, then a cordless shopvac to clean up the mess from all the chainsaw sharpening, then a Dolmar 6100, then a bigger weed whacker, and since it was a universal, got a cultivator/till head.
And that doesn't include the various side gadgets like rotary tools to sharpen the chainsaws. Then a hitachi cordless rotary/drill combo because it was cheaper as a closeout, then another closeout tool because I could get more batteries cheaper that way...
Also got a small hotdog air compressor to blow out the chainsaw, then a really big air compressor(21 gallon), because it was $129 on sale, and the smaller, crappier specs version cost more. Then an air stapler/nailer, and a 2 1/2 inch 16 ga nailer, because it was on closeout for $30 at the place where I was getting more chainsaw stuff, and a palm nailer/hammer because it was kinda cool, and cheap.
So, that's kinda of a downward spiral of tool addiction. ;P Also got a cordless ryobi sander, and a corded one. Already had two oscillating tools, which worked pretty good for cleaning up and refinishing a hardwood floor. Because carpeting in a kitchen is just retarded.
Not to mention the milage of damned extension cords, from 16-10 gauge. All the various sawzall blades, oscillating tool blades, what seems to be a ream of abrasive pads leftover from the floor project. 5 gallon buckets of nails, screws, bolts.
Then got a longer pole saw, because the new place had harder to reach trees...
I also have a very good carpet shampooer.
