Best Tool To Cut Metal Fence Posts

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Best tool to cut metal fence posts.

Cutting a chainlink fence post. It may not be an obvious choice but fitted with the right blade a circular saw is a great metal cutting tool. Cut metal with your circular saw. Cut the fence post with a hack saw or reciprocating saw.

Mark the posts with the chalk line in the same way you would with wooden fence posts. Fit your saw with a carbide blade. Although it is easiest to find circular carbide blades that fit on table saws and circular saws carbide tipped blades are also available for bandsaws and hacksaws at most home improvement stores. Measure and mark the fence post at the desired length.

Carbide is an extremely hard material mixed into metal saw blades to allow them to cut steel and other metals. Item 2740782 model 2055020550. I came up with. In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter.

Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade. Tamping tool treehugger christian yonkers a tamping tool is a specially shaped bar that has a chisel point on one end to help break up hard soil and a flat end on the other to tamp the soil down. After selling the chain link from my fence on craigslist i wanted to remove the remaining metal posts along with the concrete from the ground. Hot metal chips will fly everywhere.

The best fence post removal trick. Clamp the post in a heavy duty vise with the mark about 4 to 6 inches from the end of the vise. Alternatively you can lay the post flat on a. Approaching it as mike did.