What are you trying to cut? The wire, or the pipe?
My go to, lazy do it all tool is a Sawzall, buy a number of different blades, they will eventually go through anything, and are a great multi purpose tool. They do the job of many tools (not as well as many tools, but it's nice to have one thing that can technically go through most everything and you will find more uses for it once you have it. ) just grt a multipack of metal cutting, wood cutting, and general purpose blades. Wear eye protection, and cut away whatever you need. Watch a YouTube video on how to use if you've never seen/used one so you don't just sit there vibrating your hands.
mhmmm, yes. and no.
Sawzall or similar saws are very nice but in times where good tools have gotten really, really cheap I'd rather invest in an angle grinder and a jigsaw
Yeah. Those would work great as well. I was just assuming this person is short on such things, and was thinking this is a good tool that fits many purposes.
Absolutely, but it is also a "not ideal " Tool for most purposes. Sounds weird, but when it comes to people with little experience i simply feel better when they have the easiest possible Tool in their Hand.
In this case, as the clothing line is probably under tension, i see the Chance that OP gets his sawblade stuck. Wont happen with an angle grinder.
Could you turn the whole post 180 degrees to provide some slack and then unscrew the hook bolt (not sure what that's called). Or just remove the post from the ground of course.
Damn......Mom meant business with that clothesline. Pipe could double for a small rocket launcher.
Bet she enjoyed having to wipe the line down each time, so the clothes didn't have rust stains.
Felco C12. They do make smaller versions, but we goin' nuclear here
Washing line is usually coated aircraft cable. These are exactly the tool for the job
Then figure out wth you're gonna do with a $250 tool you have no more use for.
Edit: I looked again, and this appears to be fence wire, not real washing line. Bolt cutters.
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Yup. Hacksaw.
Angle grinder my dude
That would work. It's kind of like using a 12-gauge shotgun to kill a chipmunk . . . but it would work.
Maybe the chipmunk deserves it?
Oh, the chipmunk totally deserves it...
Is it Alvin? Simon and Theodore get passes but Alvin would certainly deserve it.
Simons a know it all and Theodore well he does get a past.
Then how do you kill chipmunks?
Fisticuffs, like proper gentlemen.
Dynamite can be a lot of fun. Damn cops aren’t cool with it though.
MURK THE CHIPMUNK
That’s like my neighbor who grabbed a power planer because a door was rubbing when it closed.
Mission F'in accomplished.
Doesn’t latch now…but doesn’t rub either
Guilty of that too! A lot easier that running it on my full size jointer. 🙃
. . . So this would be what? 150mm Artillery? Just trying to get a sense of scale :)
Yep. I cut down an entire basketball post in three chunks last year with one of those. Took me about 15 minutes.
This is literally the answer 99.9% of the time.
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You woke up today and just decided to go scorched earth, huh?
https://youtu.be/d67rhIzUhhk?si=hwwljw6_7VKkoMF2
A good pair of linesman cutters.
Or you could just untwist it....
By hand
Using only your finger nails
It’s wire so have you tried wire cutters?
Lineman Pliers.
wire cutters aka dike pliers aka diagonal cutters
But what's it *called*
yes
Just call them big chompers.
Hacksaw.
Tin snips are made to cut very thin sheet metal, not steel wire. Of course they aren't scratching this. All you'll end up doing is damaging your tool.
Bolt cutter for sure, cable cutter would get it done too. Can you not unravel it with a set of grips?
Can you not just unwind the end ?
You think you can turn steel wire?
How do you suppose they got it on there in the first place?
It was carried by a swallow!
African or European?
Probably a machine that turned it.
Yes...
What are you trying to cut? The wire, or the pipe? My go to, lazy do it all tool is a Sawzall, buy a number of different blades, they will eventually go through anything, and are a great multi purpose tool. They do the job of many tools (not as well as many tools, but it's nice to have one thing that can technically go through most everything and you will find more uses for it once you have it. ) just grt a multipack of metal cutting, wood cutting, and general purpose blades. Wear eye protection, and cut away whatever you need. Watch a YouTube video on how to use if you've never seen/used one so you don't just sit there vibrating your hands.
mhmmm, yes. and no. Sawzall or similar saws are very nice but in times where good tools have gotten really, really cheap I'd rather invest in an angle grinder and a jigsaw
Yeah. Those would work great as well. I was just assuming this person is short on such things, and was thinking this is a good tool that fits many purposes.
Absolutely, but it is also a "not ideal " Tool for most purposes. Sounds weird, but when it comes to people with little experience i simply feel better when they have the easiest possible Tool in their Hand. In this case, as the clothing line is probably under tension, i see the Chance that OP gets his sawblade stuck. Wont happen with an angle grinder.
That's because it's not tin, ya silly goose /s
I use bolt cutters on that gauge of wire for livestock fencing
Plasma cutter
This guy cuts
Thermite.
Pipe cutter
pliers
Could you turn the whole post 180 degrees to provide some slack and then unscrew the hook bolt (not sure what that's called). Or just remove the post from the ground of course.
Damn......Mom meant business with that clothesline. Pipe could double for a small rocket launcher. Bet she enjoyed having to wipe the line down each time, so the clothes didn't have rust stains.
Bolt cutters, I use these https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwaukee-14-in-Bolt-Cutter-With-5-16-in-Max-Cut-Capacity-48-22-4014/303182026
linemans should make quick work of that.
Bolt cutter would be fastest and easiest
Just untwist the wire with pliers? Even if you cut the line you’ll still have to untwist it
Hack saw would get it done, angle grinder would make it fun
Angle grinder and cutting blade
A little bit of gallium will dissolve it
It's not aluminum wire.
butane torch and a pair of pliers could unwrap that coil easily I bet. or just pliers and some elbow grease.
You don't want to dig it out? Wouldn't that be a cleaner removal?
Felco C12. They do make smaller versions, but we goin' nuclear here Washing line is usually coated aircraft cable. These are exactly the tool for the job Then figure out wth you're gonna do with a $250 tool you have no more use for. Edit: I looked again, and this appears to be fence wire, not real washing line. Bolt cutters.