Angle grinder for cutting wood

I still have my first drill, bought in the early '60s. Cost IIRC 11 quid - pretty well a week's take home for me and I wasn't in a badly paid job.

They were certainly available long before that - but often the prices were prohibitive - partly because other than basic things like drills, much of the kit was professional level stuff not really aimed at the general public.

(That £84 would be something like £270 ($400) in today's money allowing for inflation).

You definitely want a low-viscosity blade.

On Sun, 16 May 2010 20:28:16 +0100, Harry Bloomfield wrote the following:

All three sides of that round tree, Harry?

My 2-decade old Remington chainsaw nearly bit the dust last week when I let a rental worker (needed an extra body for digging out those pampas grass clusters) use it. It had been cracked already, but the bar and chain now bounce around a 7" arc at the tip. It still works, and I cut down 2 dozen hedge trunks with it, but it's on its last leg. Hmm, what to replace it with...maybe a chainsaw-on-a-pole.

-- Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. -- Andre Gide

Pity!! (NOT)

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 suspect that is more due to the cross posting than actual newcomers to the wreck :-)

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.

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

Just ask MR. B.