You guys are silly.
FYI, if you’re a Flock employee: You’ll need a bigger one for the 2⅞" poles on your job
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
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.”
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 then 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.
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Your link to the saws is a bit outdated, here is a great deal on a modern cordless metal cutting circular saws that is made for this stuff: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 fucking love Lemmy.
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.
Twin Katanas
Katanorama?
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.
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
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.
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.
Good knowledge for everyone to know. For no reason other than to share knowledge. Yes.
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.
Cut 1/2 way thru… Then electrical tape to cover up the cut. Then cut the solar wires and heat-shrink the cut back together. Then walk away.
Imagine what happens when you don’t know what the fuck is wrong with this perfectly good camera.
Drill a hole and spray a solvent into it to dissolve the plastic insulation.
Good way to hurt innocent people when that fall in the street or on someone.
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.
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.
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.
someone tell this guy he’s in the 9/11 flock country
he seems to think he’s not giving up any of his freedoms for security
Someone explain the concept of sarcasm to this poster.
Mmmh… I’m pretty sure every liberty enjoying USAian loves to cut a bit of aluminium from time to time.
I would never. I just like walking around and relaxing with the comfort of my circular saw. I certainly wouldn’t use it or do anything illegal with it. I just like to carry it.
And remember, kids: if you see a friend walking around with his emotional support circular saw, no you didn’t.
I open-carry my circular saw all the time. There’s nothing wrong with that.
Make sure you melt it down before you take it to the scrap yard, or it could be traced back to you.
Are these things actually on aluminum pipes? Steel would make a lot more sense – stronger and cheaper … and less attractive for theft.
Even if they are, it would be mild steel and still pretty easy to cut.
Still, even mild steel is significantly more difficult to cut than aluminum.
That depends on the tools used.
Basically, there are tools (blades) that are better at aluminum and some that are better at steel.
You can use a wood cutting blade on aluminun, its noisy but effective.
Ehhh, aluminum has issues with loading the cutting material making it take longer. I’d be interested to see the difference
Interesting and informative video.
I will not at all use this to my advantage. I don’t have an enormous amount of time now that all my kids are out of the house.
Whatever stops your from smoking crack, or entertains you while you are.
Interesting. This post was just below another post on my feed
Me too. This one said failed to load media. A bit odd.
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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I love you
He’s neglecting one important competitor: https://www.milwaukeetool.com/products/details/m18-fuel-deep-cut-band-saw/2929-20
It might not be the lightest or most discreet tool, but with a quoted 40 second cut through a 4" iron pipe, 2.5" aluminium should present no issues.
Yea but a circular saw is much more common. How many work trucks has a deep cut band saw in em?
Maintenance departments commonly have one of those stashed in a cabinet somewhere nearby. They are very useful.
Am I missing something, possibly a joke? When he goes for the saw in the video the pipe is clearly already pretty much cut
they cut a little bit further
Dang, totally missed that
That being said, please do not attempt this in real life. These sign posts/ camera posts are often made of steel. For safely cutting any harder metal with a saw, you should use way slower blades (like a tenth of the speed of a wood saw). In the best case your blade will just fuse with the metal pole. In the worst case, your blade shatters or you will get a kick back that breaks your bones easily.
or you will get a kick back that breaks your bones easily.
Are… are your bones made of glass?
Did you modify your saw? Is it now powered using a chainsaw engine?
(You’re right about the shattered blade, and the kickback can be brutal)
He cuts next to the old cut, doesn’t use the old cut to his advantage. Look at when he starts kicking the cutoff, the old cut is roughly in the middle of it.
I see it now, thanks!
it’s also much quieter
Fun fact: a handful of sparklers get hot enough to melt aluminium pipe.
Source: once made a smokebomb that way that ended up melting halfway through.
Has anyone considered gallium?
Gallium would be slow and uneven
True, but it would totally destroy the aluminum irreversibly, right?
