Angle grinder for cutting wood

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 ;-)

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

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

RE: Subject

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

Welcome to the wreck.

Lew

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.

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'.

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.

Also looked like there might be some issues with them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Would this do what you want?

But they look interesting. Has anyone used one?

Andrew