So why make it even more tiresome by having the wrong tools (and I don’t mean you should just get our wall chaser and all will be right in the world). No, the problems with chasing go much further than just getting a good chasing tool; you must get a good chasing kit!

Before we even discuss the kit, let’s talk about the problems on site first:

1. Does the job involve cutting bricks, or soft blocks, or hard blocks, or stone walls, or mass concrete walls or, or , or…(sure you can always get a general purpose diamond blade because, according to the rep you met- they work on everything and he had some really cheap ones!) Yeah, yeah- go ahead (buy a mini and see if it’s as good as the merc you were sitting in last week. Both of them had 5 wheels (incl. the steering…) but the mini was much cheaper…
2. And let’s just mention the aggregate in the block or the concrete. Is it river gravel, which is much harder because of the centuries of grinding it took to get it down to that size of grit or is it quarried gravel, which is all that was left from the glacier that dumped it into the valley 50,000 years ago? Is it limestone, granite, quartzite or, heaven forbid- PYRITE!
3. And the blocks from the batching plant- are they 5N, 10N, 20N, 25N strength. (hey lads!- get a set of general purpose blades when yer at the hire shop will ye!) And what about the 60N Concrete in the stairwell?
4. So you expect 1 set of general purpose diamond blades to cover all of the above? Let me make a simple comparison for you. Go and buy a brand new timber hand saw and get a short length of pine (1ft will do just fine/ doesn’t matter how thick- this won’t take long). Get the pine and see how well the saw cuts. Happy man. Now go and get a railway sleeper, a nice, old, dead hard railway sleeper…let me know when you manage to cut through it with your brand new saw. I can wait; not going on hols until Christmas. Why do you think diamond blades will cut anything everything in sight? Because they cost relatively more than a hand saw?! There is more sophisticated technology wrapped up in a diamond blade than there is in your chaser and your gennie- COMBINED!
5. 
   Are you running the chaser from the mains or using a gennie? Is the gennie petrol (going to cost you a fortune in fuel) or diesel (a fortune to buy but cheaper in the long run). But most important- what size is the alternator. Will it run the chaser only? The chaser and vacuum? The chaser and the vacuum and the chasing hammer? Together?- (if you are helping the poor apprentice who got volunteered for the wall chasing of course)
6. What length is your extension lead and what size is it?

And all of this is just for starters…Check out next Blog for info that will help ease your pain (no- not a physio…)