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Taking down an old rotting shed this weekend, but it will need a bit of trimming to make it fit into the back of the car for the tip run - what sort of electric saw would you recommend?
As you can gather, not something I usually have need for, so doesn't need to be professional standard
Thanks
I've used a Bosch Alligator saw to cut up my Parent's old shed....
Use if for loads of things, far more handy than I ever expected...
https://www.bosch-professional.com/gb/en/products/gsa-1100-e-060164C860
I've cut up all sorts of shit with one of these - even a sofa!... 🙂
https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-ers1100-1100w-electric-reciprocating-saw-220-240v/405fx
...solid piece of kit.
Did ours earlier in the summer (8x5 potting shed). Unscrewed it and then smashed it apart with a club hammer. Two trips to tip in a model y.
Why on earth would you need an electric one? Just get a cheap wood saw. Or just stamp on the bits to break them, should be easy if it's rotten.
...because power tools are fun to use! 🤣
…because power tools are fun to use!
Obviously!
If this is a one-off then I'd buy a 7 or 8 TPI handsaw for both crosscut and ripping, Screwfix <£10
If you need a powered saw then Erbauer/Titan/Einhell. Recip possibly slower but safer than circular
Deffo a recip. Dewalt piranha blades FTW. Get some good gloves - I’ve never known a tool induce VWF style numbness as quickly.
Depends what you have access to I guess. I have a circular saw so if it was me, I’d be using that.
I have the Parkside (Lidl) mains reciprocating saw, cost £20 ish, well worth it and used for just this sort of thing. Doors, pallets and other random stuff like sizing bits to fit in the chiminea.
Chainsaw: for the speed, ease and excitement when you hit the nails.
Save your money, get a hand saw. You may be surprised how easily it will go through shonky shed wood……or do you work in IT?
Sheds are made from next to nothing, cutting it up will take no time at all and cutting it will be a fraction of the time and effort involved in demolishing and disposing of the shed. All a recip saw will do is turn a 30 minute job into [the time it takes to go out and buy a recip saw]+[the time it takes to sort out an extension lead] + [working out how you're going to support the stuff you want to cut] + 25 minutes
As you've got no other real use for the saw just buy whichever one you think is prettiest 🙂
and excitement when you hit the nails.
This, all day 😂😂😂
Get a bowsaw and lump hammer- don't forget safery glasses and gloves.
Remove windows first.
If you want to be environmentally irresponsible and unfriendly, burn it - the roofing felt and any timber treatment will keep the flames going for some time.
If you take it down gently,you could fashion the dismantled feather edge boards into an artisan feature wall in your lounge. Don’t forget to paint them various colours , wiping the wet paint as you go for the “proper” patina look
Petrol+match?
The blade that comes with those erbauer reciprocating saws is rubbish, so buy something with more bite
The Bosch sabre saw above is currently on special at FFX oon ebay. Reduced to £99.
I think I'll buy one on general principle. Who knows, I might even find a use for it.
You need this overshirt, these jeans, Boots, perhaps some gloves, you’ll probably need a belt, and finally a beanie hat.
Almost forgot the most important item, a hand forged axe
There you go, all set.
Don't forget - MCTD cannot start until he has a suitably coiffed beard for the artisanal craftsman look and has some chilled craft beer for post demolition refreshment.
Somafunk's list isn't complete - MCTD will also need a Gränsfors Bruk wrecking bar.
Do you have a "library of things" near you or a hire shop?
Coming back to this (and thinking about it a bit more), I usually get loads of tools out then end up just using a claw hammer to prise structural beams off and the rest just falls apart.
Sheds aren’t typically very well built. I spent a reasonable amount on one a few years ago and it’s fine - but it’s mostly just tongue and groove with some not very big wooden framework.
A new / sharp handsaw would do the job pretty well.
If you want to buy a power tool (because more fun) then a reciprocating saw is probably your safest option. I’ve got one and it’s been handy for all sorts of stuff - I picked up a green Bosch one (not the blue ‘professional range) cheap in a sale at B&Q a few years back.
If your framework isn’t very big then a mini circular saw might do it and be faster than a reciprocating saw. I’ve got a Worx one and it’s superb for all sorts of jobs tbh. One of my favourite power tools.
You could get a full size circular saw but tbh it’s overkill and they scare me a bit. I’ve got one but I use it only when nothing else will do the job - and give it the upmost respect.
I used a lot of petrol and chucked a lit oily rag in from a distance.
The 40ft high flames kept us all warm until about 4am whilst we got riotously drunk and played with the embers.
Admittedly, I don't have neighbours.
You'll hit nails with a saw and blunt it. Sledge hammer is what I used last time. A great big one.
Don’t forget – MCTD cannot start until he has a suitably coiffed beard for the artisanal craftsman look and has some chilled craft beer for post demolition refreshment.
Craft beers in stock - check
Suitably coiffed beard - no ****ing chance, can barely grow stubble
You’ll hit nails with a saw and blunt it.
Reciprocating saw demolition blades are designed to cut through nails, I've even used mine for cutting small bits of steel bar stock
If your framework isn’t very big then a mini circular saw might do it
Chock full of nails and screws, either used in its construction or added over the years people have used to to hang stuff inside. A hand held circular saw is the last thing you should use.
You could get a full size circular saw but tbh it’s overkill and they scare me a bit. I’ve got one but I use it only when nothing else will do the job – and give it the upmost respect.
Easy to give it the upmost respect, but how ? Theres little instruction for them,use two hands, how do you stand, where do you stand, whats the risks, what exactly is a kickback and how do you A-avoid or B- control it. Little to no instruction on any of that.
And their ease of access lends people to thinking its just a tool to take to any wood cutting job.
I've a small Skilsaw 5140 500w with a 130mm blade and that is more than enough.
The likes of b&q etc offer people 1200w with way bigger blades that are probably overkill. for the majority of jobs.
Putting these machines in the hand of someone who is completely unused to something like that and is as Joe says, more than a bit scary and tbh somewhat irresponsible.
Buy a sabre saw or even a jig saw. Neither of those are likely to amputate your fingers or bury itself in your thigh.
I saw one of my Mums neighbours cutting 1/2" ply with the entire blade exposed. I went inside, didnt want to watch.
A hand held circular saw is the last thing you should use
This.
I saw one of my Mums neighbours cutting 1/2″ ply with the entire blade exposed. I went inside, didnt want to watch.
A husband of a lady I used to work with stuck a big saw blade on a 9" angle grinder to cut out a buried tree root. Blade completely exposed. Yup, it snatched, ran across his leg and he could have died...
Another +1 for use a handsaw, which I personally would supplement with a prybar and a hammer for best effect.
I hate power tools mind, pretty much because of this sort of tale:
A husband of a lady I used to work with stuck a big saw blade on a 9″ angle grinder to cut out a buried tree root. Blade completely exposed. Yup, it snatched, ran across his leg and he could have died…
A hand held circular saw is the last thing you should use
Yeah, you are right. OP - ignore me and the others that have mentioned them. The shed is old, it'll disintegrate anyway so just use hand tools and wear proper workboots to avoid the otherwise inevitable standing on an exposed screw and having it go through your foot.