Angle grinder for cutting wood

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Any CSI fans will know that seems to be their tool of choice. Usually for cutting plasterboard to reveal the dead body behind. But never with the foot up against the board.

Strange their walls never seem to have studs...

[John Rumm]

The daft thing was having done the sum the result felt intuitively wrong

- for starters I expected the rim speed to be lower than that of the AG.

(and hit send before looking at the actual number and realising that the edge would be going supersonic several times over!!)

Still in hindsight - the answer was actually ok, just had the wrong units. It should have been a linear speed of 2686 m/min ;-)

[John Rumm]

Now those you can get in the US, you lucky people!

(although the blades are cheaper there - $8.50 vs about £12 ($17) here).

[spaco]

Advertise it as "free firewood, cut it up and haul it away".

Pete Stanaitis

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john hamilt> Novice has small angle grinder (takes discs 115 mm with central hole

[Lew Hodgett]

RE: Subject

Glad to see a lot of new partipican from the UK on this thread.

Welcome to the wreck.

Lew

[aemeijers]

I get that- trouble is, there are a lot of branches I need to trim that fall between the thumb-size the rope powered lopper will cut, and the thick ones the sawblade will get a bite on. I don't wanna take the whole side off the tree, I just want to trim away where it rubs the roof and siding, and gets into the TV antenna.

[Lobby Dosser]

Oh. Well, I've gone through some pretty thick branches with the rope powered lopper. I sharpen it frequently and sharpened it when it was brand new. Sometimes it takes a bit of 'chewing'.

[Lobby Dosser]

> (although the blades are cheaper there - $8.50 vs about £12 ($17) here). >

[Andy Dingley]

Black & Decker Alligator electric "scissor" chainsaw. Looks like a toy, but for anything up to 4" diameter it's a wonderful pruning tool. Best of all it doesn't have any real reaction force (like a normal chainsaw) so you can cut small willow branches overhead when most other saws would simply push them away, or a rope chain saw would just bend them downwards.

[John Rumm]

>>>>> (although the blades are cheaper there - $8.50 vs about £12 ($17) here). >> >> --

's what Andy D mentioned a few posts up this thread - they are very good for pruning etc. Not the same as the other DeWalt Alligator saw mentioned before... just to add to the confusion!

[Lobby Dosser]

>>>>>>>> (although the blades are cheaper there - $8.50 vs about £12 ($17) here). >>> >>> --

> That's what Andy D mentioned a few posts up this thread - they are very

Also looked like there might be some issues with them.

[Alan Braggins]

>That's what Andy D mentioned a few posts up this thread - they are very

For added confusion, Black and Decker used to sell a two bladed reciprocating saw like the De Walt that was also called "Alligator". They may even have been the same saw rebranded. See e.g.

[John Rumm]

>>> That's what Andy D mentioned a few posts up this thread - they are very

too surprising since DeWalt are owned by B&D these days... (as are Elu)

[Father Haskell]

Part of the woodcarver's standard arsenal, used in conjunction with a chainsaw. Regular coarse alox grinding wheels won't start a fire.

[Father Haskell]

Coarse aluminum oxide. Diamond costs more, but doesn't cut any better. Save it for hard materials that won't clog wheels, like concrete or tile.

[clare]

You need one of the double bladed "aligator" pruning saws or a small pole mounted pruning chain saw - both designed to do that job, and do it relatively well.

[clare]

>>>That's what Andy D mentioned a few posts up this thread - they are very

[Andrew May]

Came across a leaflet in local builders merchant this morning that reminded me of this thread.

Would this do what you want?

idea of the price and I think the smallest blade is 125mm so may not be any good to you.

But they look interesting. Has anyone used one?

Andrew