Looking for a circular saw

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pcnorton

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I cut up pallets sometimes for heat. I thought I saw a heavy duty saw with 2 blades or two rows of teeth for cutting garbage wood.

Now I can't find it .


Paul
 
Craftsman offers a twin blade circular saw with counter rotating blades.
I usually use a reciprocaring saw (saws all) for pallets and the like.
 
Get a good Sawzall (not a cord less) with a good quality demolition blade, then you don't have to worry about nails.
 
Also, consider looking at a worm drive saw with a nail cutting blade. Quite a bit faster than a sawzall. I use mine on brick/concrete and rebar with the right blades, but it also does just fine on lumber. I'd really look carefully before paying good money for that craftsman demo saw.

Good luck, Craig
 
Let the nails be in the wood you burn, you can clean them out with the ashes.
BTW: If anyone wants old and new pallets out of various hardwoods, I burn as trash about 28 a week, free to anyone close enough to haul. I will save them for you, if you want a load.

James
 
I have A Husqvarna chain saw. Just gets tiring shapening when you ding a nail.

I know worm drive is the way to go for heavy duty.

This is what I saw.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/tools/1274396.html

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I might try it. Seems like it could be handy for other things. And hey one more tool wont kill me.


Thanks all


paul
 
Reviews on some of the tool boards I'm on say the Craftsman thing is more of a gimmick than a tool.

I'd either use a recip saw, or a quality circular saw--Skil wormdrive, Porter-Cable, Milwaukee. Chainsaws are dangerous when cutting through foreign objects, and you'll go through a lot of chains that way.
 
Recip saw (Sawzall) is the cheese for taking down scrap wood. Don't skimp on the blade tho! I've stripped pallets down for building bird-houses and this is the way to go.

As has been said, burn the nails right along with the wood. find a good sized magnet and pour the ash over it as you empty the stove. It'll pick them up nicely.

J-
 
Another reason for using a reciprocating saw is that the risk of flying nails is reduced. I used to have an X-ray on my office wall of a guy who had been cutting up demolition timber on a table saw - nail deep in his eye socket despite wearing safety glasses - amazingly he kept his eye - it had gone in through the lower lid and skimmed up the inside of the bone.
 
macdo said:
Another reason for using a reciprocating saw is that the risk of flying nails is reduced. I used to have an X-ray on my office wall of a guy who had been cutting up demolition timber on a table saw - nail deep in his eye socket despite wearing safety glasses - amazingly he kept his eye - it had gone in through the lower lid and skimmed up the inside of the bone.
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The counter rotating blades take care of this.

Did the glasses fail or di the nail evade them?


Paul
 
I've been cutting scrap for years. Sawzall is the way to go. The blades are less expensive than a circular saw, and it is much safer in cutting odd and ends.
 
if your time is anything, then electric chain saw or wormdrive, I love sawzalls. but the time difference is amazing,

I once cut a semi load of used pallets up in a day using a milwaukee electric chain saw. no need to cut around the nails, just make a jig to hold the pallets vertical and then slice off the parts not in the jig, I think its about 4 minutes a pallet from pile to pile,
 
Guntotin_fool said:
if your time is anything, then electric chain saw or wormdrive, I love sawzalls. but the time difference is amazing,

I once cut a semi load of used pallets up in a day using a milwaukee electric chain saw. no need to cut around the nails, just make a jig to hold the pallets vertical and then slice off the parts not in the jig, I think its about 4 minutes a pallet from pile to pile,
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Great Idea!!!... I'm not going to buy a saw, just use my chain saw more effectively.


Paul
 
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