Rock hard bag of cement

Vortigern

FreeBear said:

Do NOT put it in the wheelie bin. The bin men won't thank you for breaking the truck ...

More likely to break the lifting edge of the bin, then it can't be lifted and you'll have to pay for a replacement.

AliceW

ThisIsWeird said:

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.

We maybe can. Will the recycling centre accept such a heavy lump? (Was thinking I'd have to split it into pieces and take a some on separate visits.) 

 Or I could keep it in the garden amongst my potted plants with a colourful potted plant on top (and a few others in front of it.)

Ectophile

MikeJXE said:

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 

Just make sure the floor is more solid than the lump of cement!

CliveOfIndia

AliceW said:

Will the recycling centre accept such a heavy lump?

It depends on your council.  Certainly at our recycling centre they've got a dedicated skip for rubble/hardcore and there's no weight limit as such.  The only limiting factor really is whether you're able to physically lift the concrete out of the car and get it into the skip.  That shouldn't really be a problem if there's two of you, or if the guys working there are nice and helpful ( as ours are )

moneysaver1978

Is there a Library of Things near you? They have a SDS drill tool which I used with ease to break apart an old cement from a broken fence post.

Klinny

You could gather a group up to try and lift it. A real team effort !

henry24

FreeBear said:

henry24 said:

If it's a 25kg bag just take your empty wheelie bin lay it down then slide cement into it stand bin up and forget about it 

Do NOT put it in the wheelie bin. The bin men won't thank you for breaking the truck, and you could find yourself with some expensive troubles. Even breaking in to smaller pieces will not win yourself any favours.

The correct way to dispose of it is via the local council recycling/waste disposal centre.

I've broken a concrete path around my home and put it all in the bottom of my bin with no problems, only a few months ago I dug up some wooden fence posts and put the lumps of concrete in my bin 1 lump a week 

BarelySentientAI

There's a difference between a small lump off the bottom of a post and a lump that is taking three people to even lift.

Just like you can get away with a bit of compost from a plant pot in the green bin, but if you filled it to the top with soil there would be a problem.

Green_hopeful

Could you and or your daughter roll it into a trug type builders bucket and then get someone to help you lift it into the car. Two people with one handle each should be able to lift it. Then at the tip ask for help lifting it out. Our tip people are always very helpful. I can easily lift 25 kg in a sack but not in a lump like you have. Giving it handles in the bucket should make it manageable. 

henry24

It wasn't a small lump it would have been the equivalent of 2 bags of postcrete on each post and I had 8 but 1 each week soon goes.
I also once had a 6x6 foot fence panel in the bin