So the weather broke long enough for me to get out and have a crack at breaking the back of this Kryptonite slab removal yesterday.
After kids football coaching duties (I help coach my little lad's under 7's, all 42 of them!!) and taking the breaker round to a mates to help him move some massive ornamental slabs of slate in his garden which had been cemented in, I managed to get cracking at around 3:30.
Drafted in my mate Phill to help and we got cracking, him initially putting together my new wheelbarrow and me tidying the site, we set to.
I had bought a new 600mm chisel during the week to try and relieve some of the back breaking element of it as the chisel that came with it is about 8".
And after 2 hours of taking turns at breaking/barrowing into a 1t rubble sack (massively underestimated with those and will be ordering another 4!!!) here's the progress...
Hell's teeth this stuff is ridiculously hard!!! I need to break it all into small enough chunks to be usable as hardcore but even if that wasn't the case, the stuff is so hard I don't have a choice but to!
Anything more than an inch away from the edge and the chisel buries itself with no signs of the edge breaking away so you have to nibble away at it very slowly.
Just off out to have another crack at it. Had kids parties and homework to do today so this is my first 'me time'. We may be here some time...
Cheers
Mark