It really must go down in history as one of the all-time best marriages of tool technology and it all took place with someone deciding take a standard chainsaw and fit it with a diamond masonry blade. It is the perfect fit, and once you see one in action you'll understand why this is so.
Diamond chainsaws actually work better for cutting stone, cement, and masonry then a standard chainsaw does for cutting wood.
Sound hard to believe? Well you can believe it because it's true. For starters because the diamond pads work by gradually sanding or wearing down the surface cutting area there is no binding. This means that you do not get the gripping, the binding, and the resulting kick backs that make cutting with a chainsaw so difficult and also so very dangerous.
Also while standard chainsaws replace older technology that was available for jobs like cutting logs, and quickly felling trees, a diamond chainsaw makes new cutting tasks possible.
For instance this new stone cutting technology makes plunge cuts easy. Simply plunge the saw headfirst into even steel reinforced concrete for a perfectly straight cut as deep as the bar.
Then there are diamond pads instead of jagged teeth so you don't have the gripping, binding, and kick back issues that you would with this type of plunge cut with a standard chainsaw.
This advanced technology also makes cutting windows, doors and ports for HVAC duct-work simple, and unlike a circular concrete and masonry saw you don't have the over cut. This makes it the perfect tool for doing cut-outs for doors and windows in particular.
This handy power tools also the perfect solution for blowouts and other types of concrete pouring errors. It's also great for carving in decorative touches and things like texture patterns in concrete stairways and walkways for traction when they're wet.
Artists are also discovering new ways of using this handy cutting technology that can be used for sculpting huge chunks of stone. Do the maths and you can see that using a saw with a 16 inch bar, which is the minimum size you can cut a 32 inch wide chunk of stone if both sides are accessible, and 32 inches is an awful big piece of rock.
Then again, convenience and affordability are two important aspects of this cutting technology that's putting more of these tools in the back of peoples' trucks.
Stone cutting equipment has always been expensive and cumbersome to use. It also had its fair share of limitations with regard to what it can actually cut, which was really only flat surfaces.
A diamond chainsaw changes all that because not only is it less expensive but it's far easier and convenient to use. Just pull it out of its box, give a start-up cord tug and it's ready to go, just like that. Then unlike the standard concrete cutting equipment, this type of saw cuts pretty much any surface you can reach with it.
