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Rock hard bag of cement
AliceW
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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.
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COLD CHISEL
Life in the slow lane3 -
Forget doing it DIY, rent a suitable appliance for a day.0
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Sack truck?0
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I agree.born_again said:COLD CHISEL
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
No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?1 -
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.
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Depending on the age of the bag of cement it could be upto 1 cwt or 112 lbs, quite a hefty lift.Play with the expectation of winning not the fear of failure. S.Clarke1
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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.
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probably get charged at the tip !0
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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 ground0 -
Plus the weight of all the water that is now bonded to the cement. That’s similar in weight to the dry cement.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.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?1
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