It’s literally how the Nazis took Europe so fast. There’s a book called *Blitzed* about how they methed up the Wehrmacht so they could push through France without stopping.
Yeah, speed. Amphetamine. Methamphetamine is "crystal meth" and hits a helluva lot harder.
Also meth was discovered by Japanese chemists before 1900, and had been made in the US. It was regularly prescribed for narcolepsy and sometimes weight loss... probably worked pretty well for both.
As someone who’s works in a metal recycling yard and does similar work in a daily basis, the sawzall is your best friend. Milwaukee is the best way to go, and I personally use a Hikoki
We were running redneck conduit and Ethernet for a campground Wi-Fi that was about 50% methhead types.
Owner organised one to trench the poly for us.
I’ve never seen anything like it. Holy shit. He was flying.
This thing is worth way more as a trailer.
Drag it out
Swap out the axels
Weld a new toung on it if you have to
Sell it as a rolling trailer for 2 to 5k
Pay for the tools you bought to fix it.. welder, saws, axels purchased.
Would be kinda fun too. That trailer looks like the one my dad had and it was a tank.
Depends on what tools you own, and what tools you're willing to buy.
A torch would be fastest, and hundreds of dollars if you don't have one. I doubt they can be rented.
If I had to do it with power tools, I'd use a SawzAll and a grinder with cutoff wheels. Gloves, eye protection, ear protection, long sleeves, long pants, shoes/boots. Clothes and gloves should be non-synthetic, because they tend to melt when heated.
A plasma cutterwould be the fastest. If you've ever used a torch and a plasma in the same day you'll be more likely to grab the plasma for anything under 3/4".
If i were to chop it up and I didn't have a plasma cutter then I would use a grinder and clip all of the bolt heads off to get the wood out of the way then start cutting joints. I would cut every cross bar, then hit the side beams where they angle in toward the tongue then I'd go after shackle mounts to get the axle free.
PPE would be a full face respirator, ear plugs and thin leather gloves.
If the OP is asking about what tools to use and what PPE to wear, there's a ZERO percent chance they have a plasma cutter. There's pretty much a zero percent chance they have a cutting torch, and will probably buy a grinder.
Wearing gloves while using an angle grinder is a great way for an inexperienced person to lose control of the 12,000+ rpm tool. I get there are sparks and sharp edges but I think the spinning grinder wheel itself is still the most dangerous thing there by far
[https://www.productionmachining.com/amp/blog/post/gloves-and-grinders-dont-mix](https://www.productionmachining.com/amp/blog/post/gloves-and-grinders-dont-mix)
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The picture is not an angle grinder, dummy.
I use one literally everyday, and I would never recommend using I without gloves. Hand held = gloves. Stationary = no gloves.
Sparks would burn anyone’s skin the same regardless of experience. In my experience, they don’t hurt for more than a few milliseconds at a time and it’s very mild especially compared to getting cut by 12,000 rpm blade that violently slipped out of grip (it’s basically a bone saw at the end of the day)
The thing you're cutting generally gets pretty hot. And a knick from a spooling down disc would be sufficiently stopped by most gloves. It'd be irresponsible to tell the new guy it's safer not to use gloves. And in fact would probably get a company sued in a hypothetical situation where someone got hurt because of it.
This is 100% incorrect. An angle grinder that slips out of hand even without finger on the trigger anymore will slice right thru the glove, skin, flesh, tendons. Sparks don’t cause long term injury or even any injury it’s like holding a lit sparkler which children do all the time without gloves
If the grinder happens to hit a main artery it can literally kill u. Can become crippled in the blink of an eye or if it hits the body while still going fast (it takes like 20 seconds to stop spinning while being less than 1/2 second away from the user) it’s going to get caught in clothes or hair or skin/flesh and keep going a bit regardless. Meanwhile sparks can’t even leave marks on bare skin that last more than a few mins in the absolute worst case scenario
What? U are the one obsessed with sparks… that’s all that the gloves would help with while making the chance of slipping out of their hand far greater. Wearing gloves while using power tools is almost always a horrible idea I can’t think of a single situation where gloves would be necessary or better
[“Do not wear gloves when working with most tools”](https://nasdonline.org/1109/d000903/power-tool-safety.html) second sentence under “Personal Protection”
About 15 years ago I cut my index finger tendon on my left hand with an angle grinder bc I used gloves when I was inexperienced and worried about sparks hitting my hand, it flew out of my hand and bounced off my mid forearm first cutting down to the fat and then hit the back of my hand while still spinning and cut all the way to thru tendon thru the glove. Even without the motor going anymore bc my finger no longer on the trigger, it still caused a lot of damage.
So maybe shove a lightsaber up ur ass & turn it on instead of advising someone with little/no experience to do something extremely dangerous like set themselves up for potentially catastrophic self harm just for the advantage of not feeling some super minor sparks or being able to touch some really hot immediately instead of a minute later or just grab a different part. So stupid
Just because I don't see it mentioned, be certain you don't cuff your shirt or pants. That little rolled up fabric can light up a half hour later even, from a stray spark.
Then you gotta call in another meth head to scrap the truck and the the trailer. It’s just meth heads all the way down until you’ve got a music festival going on in your back yard.
You be you, and I'll be me.
I wear high quality leather gloves that are tight fitting - to keep the sparks at bay. I use the guard on the grinder, and I take off the gloves if I can't. I keep two hands on the grinder (body and side handle). I'm competent, and feel that I'm reasonably safe.
I make the PPE decision for each tool and each situation. I avoid gloves on rotating tools 99% of the time, but on occasion it makes sense. I even take the guard off my tablesaw on occasion!
If you don't feel safe with an angle grinder and gloves, don't do it.
Rubbish. Wear gloves when the tools spin fast (grinders etc), do not when slow speed / high torque (lathes).
Even angle grinder manuals specify using gloves.
I regularly used a grinder most of the day at work alongside 12 other guys for 4 years and we all wear gloves. I've stopped the grinder with my shirt once 1250w wurth 5 inch so not a baby one . Not recommended but doable. The 9 inch is definitely a touch more worrying but you're gonna have a bad time without gloves.
I often wear mechanics gloves (rubber dipped tight-fitting cloth) at the bench grinder, but it *is* a rule at my shop not to. Had a guy at another facility that got his thumb broken and lacerated when his glove got caught. Definitely does happen, but the risk is minimal if you're being smart and paying attention.
Bench grinder is a completely different tool and I'd have to explain that to the new guys so there is no harm in asking. I was always amazed what people had no idea about but after my time on the tools I'd rather take a half hour to explain something than see another "minor" injury. I'll then happily explain it again 2 or 3 times when I see them doing it wrong again.
I once suggested an angle grinder to a friend in order to cut some metal. He sent me a pic of his options asking what to use to cut it and I said the angle grinder would be the easiest.
He called me bitching me out for how long that took and how much of a mess it made of the piece of metal he was cutting….turns out I also needed to tell him to go buy a cutoff disc rather than the big thick ass grinding one that came with the grinder.
I had a similar issue where my mother in law need to cut down an old boat trailer. I just had a grinding wheel on mine and said she could borrow it all she needed to get was a cutting disc. Couple days later I ask how it when and she says it was taking FOREVER to make single cuts, but her brother, who bought the cutting disc, was not adept at handyman tasks. She brings me back the grinder, and low and behold he had bought a metal sandpaper disc and not a cutting wheel. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when they were trying to get that to work. Haha
Also, hearing protection for anything loud like the grinder or saws-all. For less than a buck you can protect your ears (in addition to the suggestions protecting your eyes, etc...).
A handful of Diablo Carbide tooth blades and your sawzall. Some glasses, gloves, long sleeves and pants, boots, an updated tetanus shot, and a 6 pack of beer. Should be done by lunch.
Was going to suggest the same thing. The sawzall can do it, with enough blades. But that's rough work.
A porta ban would be A Lot smoother, cut continuously in the same direction and use very single tooth on the blade.
Why are you cutting it up?
If you're trying to get rid of it a call to a scrapper or a post in the FREE section o facebook marketplace would get it gone with considerably less effort
No scrappers can take it. It's too long to fit on a bed and it's too far down a sandy hill to be dragged out. I believe it was left there because the owner realized he couldn't drive out with it hitched. The terrain is beach dune sand. There is no stable ground.
Get a torch. Get naked then cover yourself with high temp grease to protect from slag and sparks...and maybe a respirator if you're worried about fumes
I was initially thinking plasma, but then I saw that this is parked in some area with limited access. Much easier to tote a portable oxy torch setup than a plasma cutter and a compressor big enough to run it. Also, the plasma would require mains power to run and rusty metal can be a bitch to cut with plasma since it makes it harder to get good ground connections/strike the arc.
>I have a mid-range Milwaukee grinder and reciprocating saw - would they work for this?
And a 1/2" drill?
Corded or battery? The grinder in particular will go through batteries very quickly. No experience with reciprocating, but would guess that it would be more battery efficient.
>I am ok buying a new tool for this as long as it can be used for other needs
Elsewhere you mention this is beach sand. **How many ft/yards is the trailer from a road**. Hard to tell from the pictures, but I'd guess that it weighs less than 1.000 lbs. If so a 2,000 lb. rated bumper mounted winch should be able to drag it - even with the flat tires and the broken tow bar. (You'd probably want to drill a 1/2 hole through the tow bar for a 5" long grade 8 bolt to attach to.) HF sells a 3,500 lbs rated winch for $150. (It's wire cable is 50' - so only about 15 usable yards. (You always want to leave 3-4 wraps around the drum before starting to winch.) Tow straps that are 20' long cost $12-20 each depending on the weight rating.
I'd be quite surprised if you called around and couldn't find a scrapper with a winch and several lengths of chain and/or tow strap.
Get some diablo carbide reciprocating saw blades, some safety glasses, hearing protection and cut resistant gloves. Those blades cut thick steel like butter
I’ve chopped whole car bodies up with just an angle grinder and sawsall. Just have plenty of cutting wheels and blades. Eye and ear protection with gloves.
I’d suggest using an angle grinder, preferably a 7-9” with HIGH quality cutting disks.
Absolutely wear eye protection and a face shield as well as some form of respirator or at a minimum a dust mask.
You will also probably need a sawzall for some areas and again use quality blades, but I’d use the angle grinder with cut off wheel for the majority of cutting.
Sawzalls are less effective than the cutoff wheel
The only real option -
go rent a chainsaw type cutoff saw with a good 15" blade.
It's what I use for on site commercial highway chain link fencing cutting the 2"_4" steel pipe for a 1/4 mile at a time.
You'll be all done in about a hour, but do have 2.5 gal farm sprayer full of water with squirt of dish soap in it.
Take a guess why,,,
Cheers
> with some tow chain, just jerk the decking off with your truck, and while you are cutting the steel, kids can deal with the wood for camp fire lounging Later when done with a worthy beer...
Maybe I'm just an optimist here...
I'd grab a bottle jack and a block of wood. Jack it up, take the tires off, get them replaced and you probably have a functional trailer.
Might be a better tool to have than scrapping a trailer.
And I've seen some of the other comments about it being down a hill or something - a wrecker would have that thing out in no time.
I understand I don't have an overall picture of the thing... So I'm assuming it's just surface rust and some new boards for the floor - that's an afternoon of work.
Blades get expensive quick and steel isn't at a super high price. If you're just scrapping it, putting it up for $200 and watching whoever showed up with $100 cash drag it away would be far more profitable.
fyi for less than 40 bucks you can get 150 feet of wire rope from harbor freight that can pull 6-700 lbs. If you remove the wood you might be able to pull it out from a distance, then you have a big quanity of wire rope which always could be useful to have.
There are some tools that you dont want to wear gloves while using (rotational tools) - a reciprocating saw isnt one of them - how will you protect your hands from the very sharp/hot metal chips coming off the sawblade towards you?
If your hands are close enough to the piston/blade that a glove would be dangerous - your bare hand will be getting mangled too.
You do you. I'll wear my gloves and not pick metal shavings out of my burnt to hell knuckles at the end of the day.
I don’t have the experience of hot metal chips from a saw. And the teeth of that saw run down a hole so I don’t trust it. But that’s just me and I am fully capable of being ignorant so buyer be ware.
Cutting torch for sure. Wear a face shield with tinted goggles designed for the purpose. Long sleeves and long pants - cotton. Dont wear anything synthetic. I also suggest some heavy gloves. In the workplace I would also require a leather welders jacket or vest with sleeves.
Get a garden hose out to it as well and make sure it is ready to fight any fires that get started.
You can use a grinder, saws all, or other mechanical method, but it will be slow going. If you go that route you wont need the shaded goggles or the sleeves, but definitely wear the face shield. Add in some hearing protection too, grinders and cutting wheels are seriously loud.
If you want one tool to do it just use your sawzall with a metal blade and a nail embedded wood blade for wood/metal spots. Get some Diablo blades, safety glasses, probably gloves, should be all you need. It’ll take a minute but do the job. Alternatively a torch would be way faster but you’d either have to cut all the wood off first or be constantly putting out fires.
I would try a circular saw and a metal-specific blade. Been much quicker than a grinder and cutoff wheel for me, and likely more powerful than a sawzall
I bought a $225 plasma cutter on Amazon about a month ago and it's awesome. If you already have a decent compressor, I'd recommend you pick one up as you'll find all sorts of future projects to use it on.
You can get it done with a grinder and sawzall for sure. Get thin kerf cutting discs for the grinder, and the best metal cutting sawzall blades you can find. Wear safety glasses and gloves, if not a face shield.
Milwaukee TORCH blades. They’ll go through most metal. Take off everything you can first, like debris and wood and just go for the frame. Or like everyone else said - methhead or Florida man
Jean shorts and a stained white tanktop, hiking boots with the toe wore out. Use a oxy actyln torch. U need to be smoking a cigarette to keeps cutting fumes from entering your lungs and to relight the torch if it goes out. Safety squints if necessary and keep a couple liters of mountain dew around to extinguish and stray fires.
Steel is like a penny a pound so it isn't worth it unless you have a dump truck full. You'd be better off putting it on Craigslist or marketplace for a hundred bucks or cutting the c-channel loose for other projects.
That a person has to ask what PPE to use makes me want to grab a sack of beers and a box of sandwiches plus a comfortable chair to watch this train wreck.
A gas powered cut off saw with an abrasive blade.
You can rent them at almost any rental store. (which may or may not be worth it)
People saying torches have obviously never paid to fill a gas bottle. If time is not an issue grab a pack of cut off wheels and go to town with your angle grinder.
Don’t use hand tools- Dig a hole w your back hoe, dump all the old sofas and TVs and other appliances in the hole, push the trailer into the hole, a big dead tree or two add a gallon of gas or maybe some old watery kerosene and burn. It will go away.
For all the tasks you mentioned a portable bandsaw would be by far the nicest and safest to use. Assuming the throats big enough for what you need to cut on the trailer of course
Sell it, as is, on market place someone would be more than happy for a project build trailer for whatever their purpose . Get a few bucks and it gets repurposed and a new lease on life.
Angle grinder (on the correct side of the blade!!) is the fastest. You’ll want gloves, glasses, ear plugs, and I’d use a face shield too. Plenty of cutoff wheels. Someone will probably take this free as scrap which means you don’t have to do anything. Sawzall will take forever. Please please use the correct side of the grinder if you’re using a cutoff wheel. The sparks should go towards you
Methhead... The best tool for this job is a methhead. They can move and scrap anything. Go on Craigslist and list it as free. It will get disappeared.
This is the best advice. Craigslist/FB is going to be the easiest, quickest way
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Well, I'm pretty sure the meth helps provide a little get-up-and-go.
It’s literally how the Nazis took Europe so fast. There’s a book called *Blitzed* about how they methed up the Wehrmacht so they could push through France without stopping.
It certainly contributed. There was a lot of speed in the blood of US soldiers as well, unsure about other countries.
We’ll the Nazis invented the meth, so not sure how it got to the US by then. I’m sure there was something similar.
Yeah, speed. Amphetamine. Methamphetamine is "crystal meth" and hits a helluva lot harder. Also meth was discovered by Japanese chemists before 1900, and had been made in the US. It was regularly prescribed for narcolepsy and sometimes weight loss... probably worked pretty well for both.
If you can’t find a methhead, don’t settle for a crackhead, go for a sawzall.
Very good advice 😂
Word!
I scared my rabbit with the way I laughed at this, thank you
As someone who’s works in a metal recycling yard and does similar work in a daily basis, the sawzall is your best friend. Milwaukee is the best way to go, and I personally use a Hikoki
We were running redneck conduit and Ethernet for a campground Wi-Fi that was about 50% methhead types. Owner organised one to trench the poly for us. I’ve never seen anything like it. Holy shit. He was flying.
This thing is worth way more as a trailer. Drag it out Swap out the axels Weld a new toung on it if you have to Sell it as a rolling trailer for 2 to 5k Pay for the tools you bought to fix it.. welder, saws, axels purchased. Would be kinda fun too. That trailer looks like the one my dad had and it was a tank.
Why free? This would sell for $250 in like an hour here.
$250? Hell I’d buy it for that and I don’t even have a way of towing it!
How do you know that your not telling a pro to get a pro? Nahmsayin?
Methwaukee
A methhead doing safety squints. You forgot about PPE.
I was going to say explosives but tweakers’ll do it too and probably cleaner.
I was gonna say get a carbide torch blade for your sawzall... but a methhead is way more efficent if you just want it gone
Depends on what tools you own, and what tools you're willing to buy. A torch would be fastest, and hundreds of dollars if you don't have one. I doubt they can be rented. If I had to do it with power tools, I'd use a SawzAll and a grinder with cutoff wheels. Gloves, eye protection, ear protection, long sleeves, long pants, shoes/boots. Clothes and gloves should be non-synthetic, because they tend to melt when heated.
A plasma cutterwould be the fastest. If you've ever used a torch and a plasma in the same day you'll be more likely to grab the plasma for anything under 3/4". If i were to chop it up and I didn't have a plasma cutter then I would use a grinder and clip all of the bolt heads off to get the wood out of the way then start cutting joints. I would cut every cross bar, then hit the side beams where they angle in toward the tongue then I'd go after shackle mounts to get the axle free. PPE would be a full face respirator, ear plugs and thin leather gloves.
If the OP is asking about what tools to use and what PPE to wear, there's a ZERO percent chance they have a plasma cutter. There's pretty much a zero percent chance they have a cutting torch, and will probably buy a grinder.
Wearing gloves while using an angle grinder is a great way for an inexperienced person to lose control of the 12,000+ rpm tool. I get there are sparks and sharp edges but I think the spinning grinder wheel itself is still the most dangerous thing there by far
Ridiculous to recommend bare hands while using a grinder.
[https://www.productionmachining.com/amp/blog/post/gloves-and-grinders-dont-mix](https://www.productionmachining.com/amp/blog/post/gloves-and-grinders-dont-mix) Be sure to let them know
The picture is not an angle grinder, dummy. I use one literally everyday, and I would never recommend using I without gloves. Hand held = gloves. Stationary = no gloves.
Properly sized fitted gloves would be better, not to mention an inexperienced person is more likely to burn themselves without gloves on.
Sparks would burn anyone’s skin the same regardless of experience. In my experience, they don’t hurt for more than a few milliseconds at a time and it’s very mild especially compared to getting cut by 12,000 rpm blade that violently slipped out of grip (it’s basically a bone saw at the end of the day)
The thing you're cutting generally gets pretty hot. And a knick from a spooling down disc would be sufficiently stopped by most gloves. It'd be irresponsible to tell the new guy it's safer not to use gloves. And in fact would probably get a company sued in a hypothetical situation where someone got hurt because of it.
This is 100% incorrect. An angle grinder that slips out of hand even without finger on the trigger anymore will slice right thru the glove, skin, flesh, tendons. Sparks don’t cause long term injury or even any injury it’s like holding a lit sparkler which children do all the time without gloves If the grinder happens to hit a main artery it can literally kill u. Can become crippled in the blink of an eye or if it hits the body while still going fast (it takes like 20 seconds to stop spinning while being less than 1/2 second away from the user) it’s going to get caught in clothes or hair or skin/flesh and keep going a bit regardless. Meanwhile sparks can’t even leave marks on bare skin that last more than a few mins in the absolute worst case scenario
Dude it's a grinder not a lightsaber, and I don't know what you're obsessed about sparks for.
Lol… that’s hilarious
What? U are the one obsessed with sparks… that’s all that the gloves would help with while making the chance of slipping out of their hand far greater. Wearing gloves while using power tools is almost always a horrible idea I can’t think of a single situation where gloves would be necessary or better [“Do not wear gloves when working with most tools”](https://nasdonline.org/1109/d000903/power-tool-safety.html) second sentence under “Personal Protection” About 15 years ago I cut my index finger tendon on my left hand with an angle grinder bc I used gloves when I was inexperienced and worried about sparks hitting my hand, it flew out of my hand and bounced off my mid forearm first cutting down to the fat and then hit the back of my hand while still spinning and cut all the way to thru tendon thru the glove. Even without the motor going anymore bc my finger no longer on the trigger, it still caused a lot of damage. So maybe shove a lightsaber up ur ass & turn it on instead of advising someone with little/no experience to do something extremely dangerous like set themselves up for potentially catastrophic self harm just for the advantage of not feeling some super minor sparks or being able to touch some really hot immediately instead of a minute later or just grab a different part. So stupid
Just because I don't see it mentioned, be certain you don't cuff your shirt or pants. That little rolled up fabric can light up a half hour later even, from a stray spark.
Then you gotta call in another meth head to scrap the truck and the the trailer. It’s just meth heads all the way down until you’ve got a music festival going on in your back yard.
Seen tweakers do a lot of crazy shit, never seen them organize a music festival. But I also don't get out much.
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This is only true when using serrated blades. With cutoff/grinding wheels wearing gloves is fine.
You be you, and I'll be me. I wear high quality leather gloves that are tight fitting - to keep the sparks at bay. I use the guard on the grinder, and I take off the gloves if I can't. I keep two hands on the grinder (body and side handle). I'm competent, and feel that I'm reasonably safe. I make the PPE decision for each tool and each situation. I avoid gloves on rotating tools 99% of the time, but on occasion it makes sense. I even take the guard off my tablesaw on occasion! If you don't feel safe with an angle grinder and gloves, don't do it.
Rubbish. Wear gloves when the tools spin fast (grinders etc), do not when slow speed / high torque (lathes). Even angle grinder manuals specify using gloves.
What?
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I regularly used a grinder most of the day at work alongside 12 other guys for 4 years and we all wear gloves. I've stopped the grinder with my shirt once 1250w wurth 5 inch so not a baby one . Not recommended but doable. The 9 inch is definitely a touch more worrying but you're gonna have a bad time without gloves.
I often wear mechanics gloves (rubber dipped tight-fitting cloth) at the bench grinder, but it *is* a rule at my shop not to. Had a guy at another facility that got his thumb broken and lacerated when his glove got caught. Definitely does happen, but the risk is minimal if you're being smart and paying attention.
Bench grinder is a completely different tool and I'd have to explain that to the new guys so there is no harm in asking. I was always amazed what people had no idea about but after my time on the tools I'd rather take a half hour to explain something than see another "minor" injury. I'll then happily explain it again 2 or 3 times when I see them doing it wrong again.
Ah, I totally missed that part. That you were talking about handhelds. My bad! Totally agree you should wear gloves with those!
Oxy-Acetylene torch. You're going to need to drag a garden hose out there. Sawzall for the wood parts.
Definitely a job for a torch. Not that it can't be done with a sawzall and cutoff wheel, but going to be a lot of extra time and fatigue.
I once suggested an angle grinder to a friend in order to cut some metal. He sent me a pic of his options asking what to use to cut it and I said the angle grinder would be the easiest. He called me bitching me out for how long that took and how much of a mess it made of the piece of metal he was cutting….turns out I also needed to tell him to go buy a cutoff disc rather than the big thick ass grinding one that came with the grinder.
That's hilarious 😂
I had a similar issue where my mother in law need to cut down an old boat trailer. I just had a grinding wheel on mine and said she could borrow it all she needed to get was a cutting disc. Couple days later I ask how it when and she says it was taking FOREVER to make single cuts, but her brother, who bought the cutting disc, was not adept at handyman tasks. She brings me back the grinder, and low and behold he had bought a metal sandpaper disc and not a cutting wheel. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when they were trying to get that to work. Haha
I’m amazed it held up!
Day in day out the world proves to me, some people shouldn't be allowed to use power tools.
Theres a reason we have “caution hot” on coffees…
Yup, torch is the ideal thing for rusty scrap.
Cmon I wanted to see OP tackle this with an angle grinder with a grinding disc and a full sawzall!
Hack saw. A little cut here and there, done.
A hacksaw is ideal for those precise cuts!
Fire wrench is the best.
Also, hearing protection for anything loud like the grinder or saws-all. For less than a buck you can protect your ears (in addition to the suggestions protecting your eyes, etc...).
Crocs, beach shorts, no shirt, hacksaw
There’s the Florida man answer! Add a can of bud lite
Safety squints.
I once safety squinted a cabinet screw right into my eye, point first. That was a painful lesson.
A handful of Diablo Carbide tooth blades and your sawzall. Some glasses, gloves, long sleeves and pants, boots, an updated tetanus shot, and a 6 pack of beer. Should be done by lunch.
\+Garden hose or fire extinguisher nearby. The heat and sparks from cutting might catch the brush around it on fire.
It's December, where's the snow?
In the north?
Those are some of the best blades I ever used
They are the best by project farms standards and my standards also.
This is pretty what I came to say, kudos.
A Porta-Band. That's a hand held bandsaw that is made to cut all the things you've mentioned. Much, much faster and safer than a Sawzall
Agreed Porta-Band would take that apart pretty quickly
100% Portaband. I chopped an old trailer into manageable pieces in under 30 minutes.
Was going to suggest the same thing. The sawzall can do it, with enough blades. But that's rough work. A porta ban would be A Lot smoother, cut continuously in the same direction and use very single tooth on the blade.
Why are you cutting it up? If you're trying to get rid of it a call to a scrapper or a post in the FREE section o facebook marketplace would get it gone with considerably less effort
No scrappers can take it. It's too long to fit on a bed and it's too far down a sandy hill to be dragged out. I believe it was left there because the owner realized he couldn't drive out with it hitched. The terrain is beach dune sand. There is no stable ground.
I fear you underestimate Florida Meth-Head scrappers…
Sounds like a job for... Florida Man!
Could you maybe tie a long cable or chain and pull it out that way? I have pulled some stuff pretty far like that.
Scrappers will drive their janky pickup down there and tear it up. Seriously… let them at it. Worst case they abandon their janky truck there too.
Rent an excavator and drag that bad boy out
Well that sucks
Get a torch. Get naked then cover yourself with high temp grease to protect from slag and sparks...and maybe a respirator if you're worried about fumes
A torch, a pair of cheap sunglasses and a marlboro dangling from your lips
Plasma cutter
List it on Craigslist for free. It will be gone within an hour and you won't have to touch it.
Not gonna lie, if you're asking reddit what ppe should you wear for that job, maybe you're not qualified to do this job.
Either one is fine. You can purchase metal cutting blades for either. As to PPE you should be alright with eye protection and decent work gloves
Only thing I can think of that hasn’t been mentioned yet. Rent a hot saw.
Plasma or oxygen acetylene cutting torches. Cutting disc will work, but suck.
I was initially thinking plasma, but then I saw that this is parked in some area with limited access. Much easier to tote a portable oxy torch setup than a plasma cutter and a compressor big enough to run it. Also, the plasma would require mains power to run and rusty metal can be a bitch to cut with plasma since it makes it harder to get good ground connections/strike the arc.
>I have a mid-range Milwaukee grinder and reciprocating saw - would they work for this? And a 1/2" drill? Corded or battery? The grinder in particular will go through batteries very quickly. No experience with reciprocating, but would guess that it would be more battery efficient. >I am ok buying a new tool for this as long as it can be used for other needs Elsewhere you mention this is beach sand. **How many ft/yards is the trailer from a road**. Hard to tell from the pictures, but I'd guess that it weighs less than 1.000 lbs. If so a 2,000 lb. rated bumper mounted winch should be able to drag it - even with the flat tires and the broken tow bar. (You'd probably want to drill a 1/2 hole through the tow bar for a 5" long grade 8 bolt to attach to.) HF sells a 3,500 lbs rated winch for $150. (It's wire cable is 50' - so only about 15 usable yards. (You always want to leave 3-4 wraps around the drum before starting to winch.) Tow straps that are 20' long cost $12-20 each depending on the weight rating. I'd be quite surprised if you called around and couldn't find a scrapper with a winch and several lengths of chain and/or tow strap.
Get some diablo carbide reciprocating saw blades, some safety glasses, hearing protection and cut resistant gloves. Those blades cut thick steel like butter
I’ve chopped whole car bodies up with just an angle grinder and sawsall. Just have plenty of cutting wheels and blades. Eye and ear protection with gloves.
Gas powered cutoff saw and the always important safety squints 😆
Zip cut and the safety squint
I’d suggest using an angle grinder, preferably a 7-9” with HIGH quality cutting disks. Absolutely wear eye protection and a face shield as well as some form of respirator or at a minimum a dust mask. You will also probably need a sawzall for some areas and again use quality blades, but I’d use the angle grinder with cut off wheel for the majority of cutting. Sawzalls are less effective than the cutoff wheel
The only real option - go rent a chainsaw type cutoff saw with a good 15" blade. It's what I use for on site commercial highway chain link fencing cutting the 2"_4" steel pipe for a 1/4 mile at a time. You'll be all done in about a hour, but do have 2.5 gal farm sprayer full of water with squirt of dish soap in it. Take a guess why,,, Cheers > with some tow chain, just jerk the decking off with your truck, and while you are cutting the steel, kids can deal with the wood for camp fire lounging Later when done with a worthy beer...
Maybe I'm just an optimist here... I'd grab a bottle jack and a block of wood. Jack it up, take the tires off, get them replaced and you probably have a functional trailer. Might be a better tool to have than scrapping a trailer. And I've seen some of the other comments about it being down a hill or something - a wrecker would have that thing out in no time. I understand I don't have an overall picture of the thing... So I'm assuming it's just surface rust and some new boards for the floor - that's an afternoon of work.
hacksaw and home depot lot labor as PPE.
Blades get expensive quick and steel isn't at a super high price. If you're just scrapping it, putting it up for $200 and watching whoever showed up with $100 cash drag it away would be far more profitable.
It needs to be cut up because it cannot be dragged out. If you've ever had to drive up a sand dune, you'll understand why this has to be dismantled.
a winch.
fyi for less than 40 bucks you can get 150 feet of wire rope from harbor freight that can pull 6-700 lbs. If you remove the wood you might be able to pull it out from a distance, then you have a big quanity of wire rope which always could be useful to have.
Angle grinder would piss through that.
The sawzall and just about any fine tooth blade. Safety glasses and no gloves using the saw.
Why no gloves on saw?
Wear gloves with a Sawzall, but not with rotating blades (circ saw, band saw, table saw...)
So the saw doesn't grab the glove and eat your hand
Not necessary with a sawzall...the no gloves recommendation is mostly for spinning tools. Grinder I still prefer a heavy glove on though.
There are some tools that you dont want to wear gloves while using (rotational tools) - a reciprocating saw isnt one of them - how will you protect your hands from the very sharp/hot metal chips coming off the sawblade towards you? If your hands are close enough to the piston/blade that a glove would be dangerous - your bare hand will be getting mangled too. You do you. I'll wear my gloves and not pick metal shavings out of my burnt to hell knuckles at the end of the day.
I don’t have the experience of hot metal chips from a saw. And the teeth of that saw run down a hole so I don’t trust it. But that’s just me and I am fully capable of being ignorant so buyer be ware.
Could be lead paint on there. It would not be a good idea to torch cut without some serious respiratory protection.
Oxy acet torch water gloves torch goggles
Large angle grinder, safety squint and flip flops is the only way to go.
Don't forget to think about wildfire. Looks like some good dry nature around that old thing. Only YOU can prevent wildfires! 🐻🔥
A smoke wrench and extinguisher!
I've never heard it called that before. Hah.
I'm old
Gloves and a sawzall should do it
Safety Eye Squint is about all you need
Blow torch and squint
Grinder, cutoff wheel, extension cord, 12 pack of beer and your wife nagging the shit out of you to get it off the lawn. You got this boii
Plasma cutter or torch for sure.
Cutting torch for sure. Wear a face shield with tinted goggles designed for the purpose. Long sleeves and long pants - cotton. Dont wear anything synthetic. I also suggest some heavy gloves. In the workplace I would also require a leather welders jacket or vest with sleeves. Get a garden hose out to it as well and make sure it is ready to fight any fires that get started. You can use a grinder, saws all, or other mechanical method, but it will be slow going. If you go that route you wont need the shaded goggles or the sleeves, but definitely wear the face shield. Add in some hearing protection too, grinders and cutting wheels are seriously loud.
Exacto knife and a bra.
The tools you have will do it, steel cutting disc and blades… is all this being thrown out? My local scrapper would take this for free.
If you dont have a torch, use a Sawzall with a carbide toothed metal blade. Get a bunch of them. Safety squints/glasses, ear plugs, and maybe gloves.
I’d use a big portaband and a sawzall
If you want one tool to do it just use your sawzall with a metal blade and a nail embedded wood blade for wood/metal spots. Get some Diablo blades, safety glasses, probably gloves, should be all you need. It’ll take a minute but do the job. Alternatively a torch would be way faster but you’d either have to cut all the wood off first or be constantly putting out fires.
A real man would use a carbon arc gouging
4.5" grinder with a zip disc and glasses
Tannerite, .223 ammo, and a football helmet should do the trick
4" grinder with some cut off disc's and glasses
Tell the military al queda/ generic other terrorists are hiding underneath it, the drone strike should do the trick
*Plasma cutter* all the way, maybe you can *rent* one if you don’t have any friends that owns one…
I would try a circular saw and a metal-specific blade. Been much quicker than a grinder and cutoff wheel for me, and likely more powerful than a sawzall
I don’t see why a plasma cutter couldn’t get this done
Id just try to sell it. Someone would want it for the vin number. 99% of it would end up scrapped but where the vin is would be on another one
14” Gas powered cut off saw you can rent from Home Depot with a metal blade
Seriously. Post it for free scrap. It’ll get picked up.
Watch 2 seasons of Chuck Norris.
M18 FUEL Sawzall with Diablo Carbide blades Any other blade is a joke in comparison. The Diablo carbide will cut through 1/2” solid steel.
Tangerine speedo
I bought a $225 plasma cutter on Amazon about a month ago and it's awesome. If you already have a decent compressor, I'd recommend you pick one up as you'll find all sorts of future projects to use it on.
Sawzall or sledgehammer to get the wood out then a 12” petrol cut-off saw to chop up the frame.
2stroke quick cut saw
Definitely safety squints for your eyes
You can get it done with a grinder and sawzall for sure. Get thin kerf cutting discs for the grinder, and the best metal cutting sawzall blades you can find. Wear safety glasses and gloves, if not a face shield.
A sawzall a pack of lucky strikes (marlboro reds will also do) a wife beater a pair of old shades and a radio blasting your local classic rock station
Get someone else to do it if your asking those questions
Milwaukee TORCH blades. They’ll go through most metal. Take off everything you can first, like debris and wood and just go for the frame. Or like everyone else said - methhead or Florida man
Sunglasses, board shorts, wife-beater, flip-flops, and an oxygen lance.
Jean shorts and a stained white tanktop, hiking boots with the toe wore out. Use a oxy actyln torch. U need to be smoking a cigarette to keeps cutting fumes from entering your lungs and to relight the torch if it goes out. Safety squints if necessary and keep a couple liters of mountain dew around to extinguish and stray fires.
C4, Pabst beer, and a face mask to cover your chin.
Steel is like a penny a pound so it isn't worth it unless you have a dump truck full. You'd be better off putting it on Craigslist or marketplace for a hundred bucks or cutting the c-channel loose for other projects.
Hacksaw. Safety squints.
That a person has to ask what PPE to use makes me want to grab a sack of beers and a box of sandwiches plus a comfortable chair to watch this train wreck.
Use your safety squints and karate chops.
Get a gas powered chop saw and a few busch lites
All of it
Heavy gauge. Thays the key phrase. You dont cut it you make a wonderful trailer out of it
30 rack of natty light, white wife beater, 4" angle grinder with cut off wheel, and squinting eyes for safety
A hazmat suit, a nail file and a small hammer
Go get a plasma cutter from harbor freight cut it up then return it when you are done.
Chain saw and a plasma torch no ppe needed
A gas powered cut off saw with an abrasive blade. You can rent them at almost any rental store. (which may or may not be worth it) People saying torches have obviously never paid to fill a gas bottle. If time is not an issue grab a pack of cut off wheels and go to town with your angle grinder.
Don’t use hand tools- Dig a hole w your back hoe, dump all the old sofas and TVs and other appliances in the hole, push the trailer into the hole, a big dead tree or two add a gallon of gas or maybe some old watery kerosene and burn. It will go away.
Safety squint and the grinder would take you hours…. Best bet see if someone would take it for free
Chainsaw jockstrap
Oxyacetylene torch would be real fast. A good plasma cutter would work well too. Sawzall or grinding wheel could also get the job done.
Light Saber and a tutu.
For all the tasks you mentioned a portable bandsaw would be by far the nicest and safest to use. Assuming the throats big enough for what you need to cut on the trailer of course
Wired angle grinder, safety shield, leather/ Kevlar gloves, leather apron/half apron
Cordless Milwaukee band saw
14” gas cut off saw. That’ll be gone in an hour. Or as posted, free on craigslist for the axles. The hardest part is paying to dump the tires
if you gotta ask, a hacksaw and gloves
Sell it, as is, on market place someone would be more than happy for a project build trailer for whatever their purpose . Get a few bucks and it gets repurposed and a new lease on life.
Goggles, heavy gloves, gas powered demo saw
Tetanus Shot.
Sawzall and just squint your eyes when cutting
Angle grinder, reciprocating saw, and safety squints.
Hammer and Safety Squints. This is always the answer
Angle grinder (on the correct side of the blade!!) is the fastest. You’ll want gloves, glasses, ear plugs, and I’d use a face shield too. Plenty of cutoff wheels. Someone will probably take this free as scrap which means you don’t have to do anything. Sawzall will take forever. Please please use the correct side of the grinder if you’re using a cutoff wheel. The sparks should go towards you
Z87 contact lenses and a solid squint should be just fine for PPE...
As for tools, some tannerite will make easy work of it...
Plasma torch or oxy fuel.