Recommendations for cutting steel unitrut please

[JimVonBaden]

Saws-all with bi metal blades, or an angle grinder with a cut off wheel will do the trick also

I've used both.

Jim

 

[cdsvt]

Quick update. Hacksaw worked, but a guy at work let me borrow his Milwaukee Porta-Band. That tool made quick work of both the unistrut and threaded rods. Wish I could justify having one of those in my garage permanently!

 

[Kevin54]

Quick update. Hacksaw worked, but a guy at work let me borrow his Milwaukee Porta-Band. That tool made quick work of both the unistrut and threaded rods. Wish I could justify having one of those in my garage permanently!

Surely you can find some sort of justification for buying a new tool. If you plant trees around your property, do like I do and use rebar for staking the tree upright. There is one reason to have a porta-band right there. If you decide to put a sidewalk in, you can use a porta-band to cut your rebar. That's two reasons. If your shoulder happens to hurt a little bit from using a hacksaw, you need a porta-band. Now that is three reasons. I could think of dozens of reasons WHY you need one, but can't think of one reason NOT to have one.

 

[Ross/Kzoo]

Surely you can find some sort of justification for buying a new tool. If you plant trees around your property, do like I do and use rebar for staking the tree upright. There is one reason to have a porta-band right there. If you decide to put a sidewalk in, you can use a porta-band to cut your rebar. That's two reasons. If your shoulder happens to hurt a little bit from using a hacksaw, you need a porta-band. Now that is three reasons. I could think of dozens of reasons WHY you need one, but can't think of one reason NOT to have one.

I bought the HF porta-band for a small project and have since used it much more than I thought I would. I'm making a railing for the back steps and bought some 3/8" 6x12" plate for the post bases. They needed to be cut into 6x6" pieces and laying the porta-band on it's side I used the backstop as the table and had in 2 pieces in about a minute, nice straight cut.

 

[shooting4life]

Quick update. Hacksaw worked, but a guy at work let me borrow his Milwaukee Porta-Band. That tool made quick work of both the unistrut and threaded rods. Wish I could justify having one of those in my garage permanently!

Sounds like you are already justified it to me. Hit up CL and pick one up used.