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Oh, you can see I'm starting to have some fun here. I'm taking out this concrete slab I talked
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about in the last video. I'm using this really wonderful Milwaukee inch and a quarter rotary
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hammer. It's basically just like a miniature big jackhammer that you might see out on a road job
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It's very manageable, very powerful, and it is making child's play of breaking up this concrete
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I want to talk a little bit about how I do it and what I've learned over the 40 years of taking out
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concrete. Remember, we told, and you can see the advantage of taking out that board that's 2x4s
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because the material just pops out easily. And that's what you want. You want a place for to be able to release the concrete and some place for it to go
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You might want to know about the tip. So in this particular job, I've decided to use the pointed tip
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You can get different tips on this like wider blades and whatever If you working with concrete and you trying to chip it out you want a pointed tip Believe me you do not want a big wide blade That just not going to work very well This tip is awesome and here how it works You want to try to
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start a new cut about two inches from where the edge of the concrete is. You don't want
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to start way back here. It's just going to drill a hole into your slab. You just want
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it start to chunk it out and just take off little bites and you'll end up with pieces
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like this that are very manageable. It's really that simple. That's all you have to do to
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break up the slab. Probably the next video I shoot is when I've got it all out because
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once again it's wash, rinse, repeat. Wash, rinse, repeat. I'm just going to keep breaking
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it up and getting it out of the way. I'm Tim Carter for AskTheBuilder.com
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