Cutting a concrete 'council slab' with hand tools?

can't you just "lose" the jaggy edge to the back/flowerbed and savee the agro of 3inch?

beg borrow hire an angle grinder if not..

Cheers Jim K

Have you the other bit to practice on? I think I would use the chisel along the cut line at a slight angle so that you are striking away from the wanted piece.

mark

It depends on what sort of result is acceptable. You can 'cut' slabs by using a bolster and lump hammer to make a groove all the way round the cut line (both sides and both edges), and then breaking it over a sharp edge (such as the edge of another slab) - but you'll never get as clean a cut as you would with an angle grinder. It's particularly difficult when you just want to remove a small amount - it's much easier to cut a slab in half - and even then, one of the 'halves' may end up in two or more pieces!

Thanks for all the useful advice - in the light of which I will try to cut off the bit projecting the most (not a lot) and burying the rest in the garden wall it's going to be built against. Peter p.s. good group this

Buy an angle grinder.

One of life's basic necessities.