I can’t tell what exactly he used in the circular saw, but if it’s a saw meant for cutting wood, you can only get away with cutting aluminum, not steel or anything else harder than aluminum. That’s fine in this use case though. If you do have a wood cutting saw, you’ll either want a blade for aluminum or a high tooth wood blade.
If they start using steel for their posts, you’ll want to upgrade to a saw and saw blade meant for steel. They make carbide blades for hard metals.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/tools/g19731042/cordless-metal-cutting-saws/
“Unlike France, we’re got going to give up our liberties for safety.”
I hope he’s being ironic with that one. The French are the first willing to burn things to the ground if the government starts encroaching on their rights.
Next up: steel blades are classified as weapons of mass destruction and owning them privately a federal offense.
Yes. Erode what’s left of their working class support base.
I fucking love Lemmy.
Also, if pure speed is your game and noise is not a problem, a gas powered cut off saw will eat a pole like this like butter. But they spray sparks everywhere and make a TON of noise. Battery powered circular saws are the clear winner
Your link to the saws is a bit outdated, here is a great deal on a modern cordless metal cutting circular saws that is made for this stuff:
And if you want to be a big shot:
These units are more powerful, faster, and designed for cutting a variety of metals you may encounter on the streets. They also collect chips so the risk of them getting in your clothes as evidence against you is reduced.
I just don’t want to come across as shilling any one brand and just posted one of the first overviews I found. I bought my metal cutting saws years ago for fab work, so I’m otherwise, speaking from experience.
I had to cut some steel poles off a trampoline frame.
Mind you, i’m not very strong but I was able to use a hacksaw I bought for like $20. It had grips on both sides.
I cut off all the poles in about 20 min. Just gotta keep it level. Makes very little noise.
I wore grip gloves to make it easier.
I highly recommend hacksaws with grips on both ends as this really helped. I bet someone stronger than me could cut through a pipe in about a min or 2 with one of them.
Barely making any noise.
You would probably also want to wear a mask to keep from breathing metal powder. Eye protection as well!
Something something magnetic so don’t carry a phone.
You could also use a sawzall, but imo the best of both is the portaband.
Good knowledge for everyone to know. For no reason other than to share knowledge. Yes.
Just hold their beer. Almost there!
This would be a good time waster, but that depends on how they “repair” them. Do they diagnose the issues, or do they just install a new one and toss the old one?
Its probably a 150 to 300/dollar loss I’m guessing.
That sounds more reasonable.
Good way to hurt innocent people when that fall in the street or on someone.
Drill a hole and spray a solvent into it to dissolve the plastic insulation.
It probably wouldn’t take long to figure out that it isn’t getting power through the solar panels. I’d guess testing the voltage on those connectors would be one of the earlier checks they do (there’s probably even an led on that circuit so they can see without even needing the voltmeter).
Someone might get hurt when a strong gust of wind finishes that cut, too.
Sending someone out to test it is what costs the money. There aren’t “Flock Techs” that get a salary to fix these things, they just hire contractors to do installs and move on.
Every minute it’s down is a dollar out of Flock’s pocket because it’s not transmitting anything useful and every contractor hired to diagnose the issue is another dollar out of the pocket of the people that contracted with Flock.
Seems like a reasonably sound strategy outside of the safety concern imo.
What does this accomplish over taking it down? It does a funni? Same risk, but less effective
It’s not legal or encouraging advice, just commentary. It’s the equivalent of a dreded home improvement project where everything goes wrong but you don’t know yet.
Let’s update the toilet! So you go to Lowes (not home deportation depot) and you spent time getting it. Then you find out the valve is stuck so that’s another Lowes trip. Next you get the toilet ready but the flooring is all rotted. So you take another Lowes trip. ETC.
You increase the servicing time per toilet. Like the difference between replacing an engine and having to diagnose a dead engine because your alternator stopped working at the same time that the starter and fuel pump stopped working.
You know, Gallium is pretty neat, does all sorts of fun stuff with Aluminum.
does it work through the paint?
No, need a good scratch to get it going.
You guys are silly.
Great for clean copper cuts but not super fast and won’t work if it’s not perfectly round.
They make bigger ones designed for harder metals, and they have the advantage of being much quieter than a circular saw or an angle grinder
These will go through aluminum like butter and you probably won’t find a pole that isn’t round enough to cut.
FYI, if you’re a Flock employee: You’ll need a bigger one for the 2⅞" poles on your job
Those who give up Liberty for safety deserve neither.
Write that down.
I like the full quote by Benjamin Franklin,
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
A portable band saw with the appropriate blade for either soft metal or hard metals is the only thing I’d use
I love the burp towards the end. This just dripped with swagger.
This guy is a… tool.
Twin Katanas
Katanorama?
That has a nice sch’scwiinggg to it.
Isn’t it just as effective to throw mud on the camera? That way if you get caught it’s not really “vandalism” since you’re not really damaging the device. Maybe not a get out of jail free card, but much easier for a lawyer to defend.
Hypothetically speaking, I would never ever do anything like this myself :)Mud can be cleaned off, a destroyed camera takes more ressources to replace.
Yeah but they have to pay someone to go clean off the mud, right? I mean it drains their resources, also will probably not lead to you jail time if you get caught.
IDK, just thinking of ways an average person can fight back without exposing themselves to prison.
They arrested someone for clapping at a town meeting they don’t give a fuck.
Exactly. If you’re going down anyway, Make your shot count.
I say go for it every effort counts, if that level of resist feels good for you, throw mud, or shine a green laser on it, cut the pipe, put a sticker over it, hack into the minecraft, choose your own adventure
So the green lazer damages the camera, right? Not that I would ever do that myself.
It will still lead to jail time if you’re caught because they will want to make an example out of you. Might as well go for broke. At the very least, use spray paint.
The cameras gather more than jusy video. They also scan wifi and bluetooth and can still capture people who walk/drive by with any device that can communicate on wifi or bluetooth
Interesting. This post was just below another post on my feed
same poster too, that’s weird
same poster too
source?!?!?!?!
So you think these things are somehow related? I can’t see how.
Doesn’t look like anything to me
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Me too. This one said failed to load media. A bit odd.
There are so many issues with this video.
When using power tools, safety should be your number one concern.
- Never use an angle grinder without the blade guard installed. Is it inconvenient at times? Sure. But you know what else is inconvenient? Trying not to bleed to death or being blinded over what should have been a quick and easy job.
- Always wear the proper personal protective equipment (PPE). That includes a heavy long sleeve shirt, gloves, safety classes, a dust mask, and a hard hat (especially when cutting poles or other materials that are vertical and have a risk of falling).
Make sure the glasses are not heavily tinted, else you’d be unidentifiable so your friends wouldn’t hit you up on a conversation when they happen to walk past you.
And not to be forgotten, hearing protection.
Good call. My low grade tinitus should have reminded me of this one.
What?
I offer (sometimes only mentally) a hearty Fuck You to anyone making that joke when they find out I have hearing loss.
<h1>Hearing protection!</h1>
Earring production? What?
The hard hat especially. A professor at my college died from shrapnel to the brain, and they had taken every precaution but that.
Was it shrapnel from above?
Nope, just an unlucky trajectory
Definitely, if cutting down aluminum posts in public, the most inconspicuous thing is doing it im the daytime, wearing a hard hat, tinted saftey glasses, a high vis vest, saftey gloves etc.
Have your spotter dressed in the same attire but with a clipboard.
As someone who has worked as a professional construction clipboard holder. You can literally do whatever you want as long as you have a clipboard and a hard hat.
Don’t forget the hi-vis
If you’re dressing up to take it down, you’re better off with wrenches to take it down properly. Everyone going to know what you’re doing cutting it in half. Make sure to wear electrical insulated gloves(also good for hiding finger prints), cap off the live wires with wire nuts and leave a traffic cone.
Taking it down properly makes it easier* for them to put it back up though
Unbolting a broken post before putting a new one up is marginal effort. People should be using a variety of methods depending on the circumstances and to keep the authorities guessing.
Also, a portable band saw would cut through like butter compared to an angle grinder plus it’s orders of magnitude quieter. I can get through 4", 3/16 drop posts in like 20 seconds with a band saw and it’s much safer
welp, that’s a thing i haven’t seen before
I’m guessing they mean a model like this one.
https://www.burnstools.com/xbp04z-18v-lxt-bl-compact-bandsaw-bare
Also, keep the shoe of the reciprocating saw firmly against the workpiece to start, and throughout the cut.
Regular cutting disks are made, at least in part, from aluminum oxide. The cut aluminum tends to bond to the disks, slowing them down, and making the disk slower.
There are specific aluminum cutting disks that don’t clog, making the cut much faster.
Just saying.
Also, if using a reciprocating saw, keep the guard against the material, it’s there to prevent the blade from jumping when it snags.
Also, if using a reciprocating saw, keep the guard against the material,
And don’t press so hard against the blade. You will only create excessive heat which is bad for sharpness. Let the blade work at its own pace.
True. Generally applicable to most power cutting tools
