Any builder or ground workers about. Need a bit of advice!
Any builder or ground workers about. Need a bit of advice!
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LittleBigPlanet

1,209 posts

172 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Sledgehammer and some elbow grease, surely?

hairykrishna

14,539 posts

234 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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That's not going to take much breaking up assuming you don't want it in tiny pieces. I smashed up a similar, but square, one in our garden with a 4lb lump hammer.

As soon as you get a crack in it and can go at the 'edge' of the concrete it'll fall to bits.

miroku1

417 posts

138 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Do you really need to be told how to break that ??!

dxg

10,823 posts

291 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Hit it from the inside out, not the outside in.

And, yes, a big lump hammer held at the bottom of the handle with a big swing. Repeatedly.

Pflanzgarten

7,748 posts

56 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Step one, empty it.

Cold

16,742 posts

121 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Pflanzgarten said:
Step one, empty it.
Step two, refill with dynamite.

Electro1980

9,139 posts

170 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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You’re all thinking too small and not nearly PH enough. Controlled demolition with dynamite.


Ritchie335is

2,157 posts

233 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Massive fire, Dibnah style.

IJWS15

2,244 posts

116 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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About 10 years ago I looked at hiring a breaker but all that was available were very big ones, the solution here looks similar to mine - but a cheapish sds drill and a chisel bit.

Mine was the equivalent of https://www.screwfix.com/p/refurb-titan-ttb631sds-... for £18 and is still going strong.

Edited by IJWS15 on Thursday 12th May 19:25

IJWS15

2,244 posts

116 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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About 10 years ago I looked at hiring a breaker but all that was available were very big ones, the solution here looks similar to mine - but a cheapish sds drill and a chisel bit.

Mine was the equivalent of https://www.screwfix.com/p/refurb-titan-ttb631sds-... for £18 and is still going strong.

Edited by IJWS15 on Thursday 12th May 19:51

mgtony

4,225 posts

221 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Empty it, shove it on Facebook for sale as a pond. idea

silverback mike

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11,293 posts

284 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Electro1980 said:
You’re all thinking too small and not nearly PH enough. Controlled demolition with dynamite.
Top plan!!!

Tommo87

5,457 posts

144 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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They won’t see this.

You need to move it to the Ferrari section, where the high net worth people reside.

Blakewater

4,563 posts

188 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Has the original post or picture been removed from here? What's being demolished?

jhonn

1,713 posts

180 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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^ I'm seeing nothing either - looks like it's been demolished and taken away already. Where's that disappointed smiley...

mgtony

4,225 posts

221 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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It was a plant pot.

silverback mike

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11,293 posts

284 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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rofl god knows where that went. Here it is! Thanks for the inputs. And yes sledgehammer and chisel was the obvious option but to save my shins and elbows I thought a jackhammer was the way ahead, and was unsure to attack from the top or side biggrin

Reciprocating mass

6,059 posts

272 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Put it on the verge outside for the Amazon delivery drivers to break it up silly this thread is nothing without pictures of the Suffolk punch !

silverback mike

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11,293 posts

284 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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Reciprocating mass said:
Put it on the verge outside for the Amazon delivery drivers to break it up silly this thread is nothing without pictures of the Suffolk punch !
Good spot re the punch. It does good things!!


Reciprocating mass

6,059 posts

272 months

Thursday 12th May 2022
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