How many batteries to Sawzall a car in half?

Around here at pull-a-part,you can't buy the whole car. You can cut it into little bitty pieces and buy them,but ( unless you're friends with them ) they will not sell one complete. I'm sure it happens,but they aren't by law allowed to sell whole cars,they tell me.

 

you can rent a small generator at home depot or rsc for an afternoon, and using a quality corded sawzall is your best bet. I cut up an RX7 till it all fit in the back of a shortbed chevy and it took about 4 hours and 4 blades, that included sweeping up the broken gl*** from a door. Id say you can be done with your stuff in about an hour. Dont waste money on cheap blades, stay away from harbor frieght, and dont waste it on expensive blades either, you dont need those fancy torch blades. regular old milwaukee metal blades and like was said, let the blade do the work.

 

I've cut up two cars with a battery powered sawzall. Only used 2 blades per car but was switching out the batteries every 15 minutes or so, Probably used 3 batteries per car. This was with the old style ni-cad batteries the new lithium ion would do much better.

 

What? No body has mentioned a chain saw yet??

I cut up a 64 Impala with a regular sazall and only used two blades so that shouldn't be too bad.

 

joedoh is right about those Torch blades, they are no better than regular DeWalt or Lennox blades. When I was cutting the subframe out of my rpu project I went through a lot of blades on the sawzall so I figured I would try the Torch ones. They actually died quicker than the regular blades and cost a lot more.

Don

 

the man said forget it,reality done set in............

 

I use the fire and rescue blades. They last forever. They are harder to find though. I bought them from an industrial supplier for about $15 each.




We cut this car apart with 3 reciprocating saws and one cheapo blade each. No batteries. You just have to know how to use the saw.


Also, you can hook up battery operated power tools to a car battery. alligator clips and some wires. If the voltage is higher than 12, it'll be a little less powerful. If it's lower than 12 volts, be careful.

 

Wasn't there some football player or something that went out to a parking lot and hacksawed a car in half?

 

Here ya go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8M0di2hpiF0

 

Yeah but we're trying to set it back out.

I've never had a cordless sawzall but I’ve sure used my corded Hitachi a bunch at Pull a Part and other junk yards around here. I use a Husky Power inverter and the battery out of my truck. It works so well I replaced my battery with a deep cycle marine battery last summer. I've never run the battery completely down and I've cut a lot of stuff in the course of a day. I cut the top off a '66 Mustang, the whole front end off a Dodge van I was pulling the motor out of, countless exhaust pipes, steering shafts, drive shafts etc... Just the other day I did this, it's the third one so far done the same way. I like the Dewalt demo blades to make quick work of light stuff and I always bring 3 or 4 extras. I say to hell with reality, you got a sawzall!


BTW, I love the Falconstein you done much on it?

 

Damn straight. Been there more times than I can count...

 

Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reynolds_(American_football)

 

There's some good info coming in, so no need to shut it down.

 

Thanks, but negatory.

 

I had a Harbor Freight 14V sawzall and the battery would last about 10 minutes.

I borrowed a DeWalt with two batteries and they'll run 20 min or so - cut up a '51 Merc coupe with them and the office in the yard was nice enough to let me plug in the charger so I could finish off the car, but I think I only had to do that because the one was already low.


On that car, I would cut the roof at the A-posts and find the weakest point across the floor and you should be able to do it on two batteries. Going to be a ***** to handle, though, may be easier to just take the roof off as one piece and the quarters as two more pieces. That's what I did on the Merc, although if I had it to do again I would have cut below the quarter windows and left them and the rear window opening all intact.

If the cutting slows down put a fresh blade on, you can always re-use and finish off the worn blades at home.

I am fairly certain that gas demo saws and generators may be a no-go, they would be here, but rules vary yard to yard.

 

..that poor little Comet.

 

Yep, too bad it's gonna go. Very surprisingly, I got the very good grill and front bumper off of it.

 

a few years back i watched the dewalt rep cut a car in half, faster than the fire department with their jaws of life (they did it by protocol rep did 2 cuts) he used 2-3 saws to do it, instead of swapping batteries.

A good blade is the best part of it. old ****py blades will waste more energy.

 

Don't know about cutting one in half, but do know for a fact, it only takes one telephone pole to bend one in half.

 

If you intend to use any portion of the roof do yourself a favor, remove the windshield and just saw thru the windshield pillars down low near the cowl. It'll only take two minutes to take the entire roof that way. Later it'll be easier to graft that on than to weld a roof panel down the middle.

The rockers will be the toughest part of the floor. The tunnel and floor pans are just sheet metal most places.

I wanna see a Falcon with tailfins!

 

Quickest way, gas powered abrasive saw, knock out the windsheild, cut both posts, then one more cut across the floor just behind the door post below the windsheild.

............Jack

 

My kid cut our Dodge framed cl*** "A" motorhome and another, both 1977, with one Sawzall and many blades in a few weekends. Small enough pieces to haul off in a Ranger PU.
Found out later when I needed the Sawzall they also burned it up. Why do we have kids?

 

A friend and I chopped up a '55 Ford with an ax back in the 60's.
My buddy's Dad repaired and s****ed old stoves so we just used his axes and other crude tools (no power tools!).