Jason Hodges at the Jim’s Trade Show caught up with Makita to talk about their expansion into garden care. To learn more about their range visit https://www.makita.com.au/power-garden
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Good morning everyone it’s Jason hodgers and welcome to a absolute beautiful Saturday morning in Melbourne now we’re going to start off with one of the leading Brands when you think of power tools and battery operator tools and that is maker I’m here with Ronald mate
Tell us about uh some of the range that some of the franchisees use that Mak Supply yes so we uh We’ve recently bought out a 40 volt uh line which is very popular with a lot of the franchisees an example of that is um the new 40 40 volt
Mower very light can be folded extremely Powerful uh has 10 stage settings and a very very competent machine which uh quite a few of the franchises are Tak in uh at at the gyms training when we go there and and present it to them so you can put one or two batteries in this and
Power it up with two batteries that’s right so it’ll run off 140 volt battery uh when that runs out it’ll automatically switch over so no need to bend down open the catcher open the cover and and change so and that batter is compatible with a whole range of
Other Machinery which um the guys really really enjoy because of its its lightness its power um and the convenience of the battery I know lots of professional horticulturalists have raving about the hedge trimmers traditionally makito as power tools as a landscaper I used a lot of Mako growing
Up Dad used a lot of Mako as a builder but weren’t known for garden but you haven’t just put your toe into it you’ve actually become a leader in that field because like they’re renowned yeah so what a lot of people don’t know is Mita in the ’90s bought a company called dmma
Which made dolmar chainsaws so a lot of that dolmar technology has gone into our Tools in addition to that we bought Robin uh four strike engines and we’ve we’ve actually run blowers uh and backpack blowers and various for strike Machinery in the outdoor power space and what we’ve done
Is we’ve just converted that into wonderful beautiful smooth battery gear I remember dolma was orange and at one point I had identical chainsaws one was dolma and one was Makita and they were interchangeable with their parts that’s right so if you look at some of the chainsaws down there they uh they have
That curved handle which is reminiscent of the old dolma machine so that’s a bit of that’s a bit of dmore engineering right there and it looks a little bit familiar to people who are I suppose old enough to remember that sort of thing yeah yes well I’m old enough to remember
The old dolma but we’re talking Makita um what sort of uh specials or deals are there for uh franchisees at the moment why why would they shop with you guys yeah well we have um we have a deal where if they buy a certain amount of Machinery we’ll give them some free
Batteries and charges and that’s subject to what they buy and and the volume of that but we’ve had that going for a long long time and it’s not just at the show but it’s it’s ongoing it’s important now because you can’t just go and buy a shinda whipper snipper and a Honda mower
And a Makita this you’re buying a brand so that you’ve got the batteries that are interchangeable and there’s no brand in the the trade that’s got a stronger name than Makita so definitely come down and see Ronald or the the guys and uh see if you can put a kit of Makita
Together with some uh free batteries thrown in thanks for your time pleasure thank you