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Cutting a length of drainpipe is a serious affair, especially if you're doing a bodge job plumbing in a new (well, kinda freecycled) waterbutt.

Generally I'd use a fine toothed saw to do the job, but since I was lacking in that, I used my pruning saw (not that I have anything to prune, I just like having a folding saw with vicious teeth).  My good friend told me I was going to do myself (and him) an injury with it and suggested I use a stanley blade.

Yeah, about that...

One slice (accross the nail on my thumb), a fair bit of bleeding and swearing later, we went back to using the pruning saw that did a good job.

Pics on www.waark.com as per usual (with a bit more detail) but I should warn against future foolishness with sharp knives and fingers... ::)

All that faph on when a hacksaw would of done the job.

Who ever the idiot was that suggested the stanley knife should be taken to the toilet and duffed up.
No comment about the person who attemted it. LOL

hope the thumb is ok  :)

I always use an old wood saw for cutting hard plastic pipe.
Got to admit as soon as I read the words stanley knife I had to cringe. :-X

STANLEY KNIFE!!!  ::)
I've always used a woodsaw, coarse blade hacksaw or an angle grinder, the angle grinder can be a pain as it tends to melt the pipe though!  ;D

Waterbutt looks great though!!!

Whatever you use to cut the pipe - the important thing is to "hold your work" ie vice for the pipe. I tend to put the pipe between the planks of a pallet and get the OH to push all her weight on the pipe an old wood saw is the best tool for the job, just start slowly until you get a good start. Your mate Stanely isn't the sharpest tool in the box is he?

;D

Quote from: 70fingers on May 18, 2009, 16:16:08
Waterbutt looks great though!!!

Whatever you use to cut the pipe - the important thing is to "hold your work" ie vice for the pipe. I tend to put the pipe between the planks of a pallet and get the OH to push all her weight on the pipe an old wood saw is the best tool for the job, just start slowly until you get a good start. Your mate Stanely isn't the sharpest tool in the box is he?

No offence meant 70 Fingers just think if it had drastically gone wrong. Tim could have logged on as 9 Fingers

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 ;D ;D

Take no notice tim I think your a  cut  above the rest.  :-X    ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I was going to make a crack like the last two but didn't get the finger out fast enough! >:(

Kev i think there may be a few cutting remarks about this.

Even TG is joining in with a  slice  of humour, go TG.  :o   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

A good wood saw and a pair of thunder thighs to hold it tight and you wouldn't need any more aid, especially band aid.......... :D

Talk about being all thumb,s......nearly was,nt

A new meaning to getting plastered down the plot!!! ;D

Here's the problem:

Have as many saw teeth as possible in contact with the surface at any one time.

Use a fine tooth hacksaw, and turn the pipe as you cut, so you are not cutting two edges at once. Only cut one pipe wall at any one time.

Let the saw do the work. Long gentle strokes of the blade. Don't press.

To make sure you get a straight cut, wrap a piece of sticky tape or masking tape round the pipe where the cut is to be.

Apart from that, you will get a better cut if you can borrow a disc grinder.  :)

Unfortunately, I'm lazy and couldn't be bothered to go and find one from someone else on the allotments and hadn't brought one down with me.

Nevermind!

What's worse is popping down today, having got a nice amount of rainwater during the night to fill up my first bucket load.

Still can't upload images, but if you goto www.waark.com you'll see the torrent of water from the 'leak' I got.  The tap rubber failed, I tried to screw it tighter (but the butt was full!) and the plastic so old the thread seemed to come off and there was a complete tap failure.  The whole thing emptied in a matter of minutes.

So off to buy a new tap today! Hurrah :(

bummer! when it rains it pours :P ;D

just stick a wine cork in the hole (from the inside) taps are an invite to leave turned on. it's quicker to dip'n'fill your watering can!! ;)

Thumbs up to that Tony