Rock hard bag of cement

AliceW

I'm clearing out my garage and have found a rock hard bag of cement. It needs to go to the tip in my daughter's car but it's too heavy to move. I tried chipping chunks off with a heavy hammer and a chisel, which reduced the size a bit but the chisel broke (it was an old wood chisel and not very wide)  I  need to chip some more off the block of cement because it's still very heavy. I looked at chisels on Amazon but there are so many different ones I don't know the best one  to get. Any advice would be great.

born_again

COLD CHISEL

daveyjp

Forget doing it DIY, rent a suitable appliance for a day.

fatbelly

Sack truck?

GDB2222

born_again said:

COLD CHISEL

I agree.

Something like this:
https://www.screwfix.com/p/magnusson-guarded-cold-chisel-1-1-4-x-12-/1572V?tc=MC7

Please get one with a guard like that one has!



You'll need a club hammer, too.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/magnusson-fibreglass-handled-club-hammer-4-1-2lb-2-0kg-/9413v

ThisIsWeird

AliceW said:

I'm clearing out my garage and have found a rock hard bag of cement. It needs to go to the tip in my daughter's car but it's too heavy to move. I tried chipping chunks off with a heavy hammer and a chisel, which reduced the size a bit but the chisel broke (it was an old wood chisel and not very wide)  I  need to chip some more off the block of cement because it's still very heavy. I looked at chisels on Amazon but there are so many different ones I don't know the best one  to get. Any advice would be great.

Can't it be lifted by the two of you into the car? Then a friendly bloke at the recycling centre will almost certainly take over.

Eldi_Dos

Depending on the age of the bag of cement it could be upto 1 cwt or 112 lbs, quite a hefty lift.

ThisIsWeird

Eldi_Dos said:

Depending on the age of the bag of cement it could be upto 1 cwt or 112 lbs, quite a hefty lift.

Good point. Current bags are 25kg(?), but I do recall those in my past were heeaavy.

Flugelhorn

probably get charged at the tip !

MikeJXE

Try to borrow a long handled sledge hammer and smash it up into small pieces, stick a few in the bin each week

When you try to smash it it must be on a solis floor not on soft ground 

GDB2222

Eldi_Dos said:

Depending on the age of the bag of cement it could be upto 1 cwt or 112 lbs, quite a hefty lift.

Plus the weight of all the water that is now bonded to the cement. That’s similar in weight to the dry cement.