How can you easily and quickly cut slate straight along the line without a grinder?

How to quickly and easily cut slate without a grinder?

Many of those who live in a private house know that slate is a versatile material that has many uses. It can be used to build a fence or garden beds, it can be used for a vegetable or cesspool, for formwork, as a covering material, and so on.

In general, building something from slate is a pleasure, and most importantly, quickly and inexpensively. The only problem when using this material is that it is not so easy to cut it to the required size, because the slate is very strong, but at the same time rather fragile.

Rather, it is not so difficult to cut it, but for this you need a grinder.

And also a special diamond wheel or a disc for concrete, which is a cheaper option.

If you have all this, you are not afraid to work with this tool and hold it confidently in your hands, then cutting the slate will not be difficult. The only thing from the grinder is a lot of dust, so do not forget to take additional protective measures and be sure to wear a respirator.

The easiest way is to cut the slate with a grinder

But how to cut slate without grinder? Many will now say that every man has this tool and there is no need to invent anything! But imagine the situation, you came to your dacha to make neat bumpers for high beds from old slate and you planned this venture the whole previous month, but it turned out that the grinder remained at home. What a shame! Well, don't put it off until next week.

There is a very simple way out of this situation! And now I will show you how you can easily and quickly cut slate without a grinder.

To do this, we need only one single nail, which will certainly be found in any home.

We outline the cutting line on the slate or, focusing on the eye, we apply the nail head to the slate and make a hole with several sharp, but not strong hammer blows. We make such holes along the entire cutting line at a distance of 2 - 3 cm from each other.

Making holes in the slate with a nail

It turns out such a picture.

And then everything is simple! We ask an assistant or we ourselves step on the slate with our foot on one side, and on the other, we grasp it with our hands and break it off. The slate will break off exactly along the cut line. Well, how do you like this way?

We break off the slate with our hands exactly along the marked line