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11 Demolition tools that’ll get your junk worked (can I say that?)

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When it’s time to wreck it, demolition tools do the bashin’ and trashin’. Behold the destroyers and protectors.

Behold! Demolition tools!

Just ask DIY Network’s Jason Cameron, demo is one of those things.

Despite it’s ‘strong back, weak mind all-adrenaline’ appeal, screw ups are not just easy to make doing demo, but they can be epic: Burst water lines, damaged electric, and dust of questionable toxicity on your kids’ toys that’d make Mike Holmes mad. So here are some demolition tools to tear it down and pick it apart like a boss.

When demo means picking it apart—piece by careful piece—Rockwell’s Sonicrafter oscillating tool gets you in there for DIY surgery.

Rockwell Sonicrafter, house surgeon. The doctor will see you now.

 

Part dump trailer, part elevator, all awesome. The Equipter brings the dumpster to the mess, then the mess to the dumspter. It even has wings.

The Equipter. Mega demo machine hauls it out.

The Trucker’s Friend. Undoubtedly it can wreck stuff. Not sure if it wrecks anything other than vampires or zombies. Still, demolition tools are demolition tools.

I suppose there’s a situation where you’ll need to drive nails AND kill zombies.

You want a recip saw blade that’ll last on one of our most used demolition tools? Of course you do. And this one is it. I’ve cut through nails and wood, tree roots and dirt. Oh yeah, get me some.

Diablo Tools’ carbide tipped reciprocating saw blade. This thing works.

Did something happen to DIY and no one told me?

Estwing tactical tomahawk and double bit hatchet? Call William Wallace. FREEDOM!

 

For actual DIY, Worx electric chainsaw cuts real branches and firewood. I even used it cutting pilings for a deck design. Impressive and easy to use. (Use on werewolves requires a silver-dipped chain).

Worx electric chainsaw, a real world demolition tool for overgrown yards, storm damage, or overgrown stacks of firewood.

DemoBags are jobsite tough. And more. They play an integral part in one of Spartan Race‘s most crushing obstacles—the sandbag carry/drag. It’s brutal. No other bag I’ve seen would have taken the punishment.

DemoBags—uber tough, re-usable, multipurpose trash bags.

Just about any idiot can drop off and pick up a dumpster. It takes someone who cares about your projects to not gouge your paver driveway. Or crack the asphalt. Or show up on time. Or—know the dumpster in a dumpster trick so you can have two. Who doesn’t want two?!

Bin There Dump That hauled for us on Save My Bakery. If they’re near you and you need trash gone, call them.

I reach for it on every project to ‘demo’ something. Scape, gouge, pry…A toolbelt without a HYDE 17-in-1 or multi-tool has a piece of its DIY heart missing. Get one. Or ten.

Hyde’s 17-in-1 multi tool really does get used that much on our projects.

Dust is the enemy to many a demo job. Catch it at the source—before it’s all over every piece of furniture in the house. And inside your lungs.

A mega dust sucker like the BuildClean air filter can keep your site clean, family safer, and lungs happier. And make work easier too.

 

 

Mark
Mark is a licensed contractor, tool expert, wood and outdoor enthusiast, and elite Spartan Race competitor. He writes about home improvement and tools for national magazines and websites, and teaches hands-on clinics for other remodeling professionals. Check out his book, The Carpenter's Notebook.
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Mark is a licensed contractor, tool expert, wood and outdoor enthusiast, and elite Spartan Race competitor. He writes about home improvement and tools for national magazines and websites, and teaches hands-on clinics for other remodeling professionals. Check out his book, The Carpenter's Notebook.

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  • Hey, Mark! If you're anything like me, you love wrecking stuff! That's why your article has interested me so much! I'm going to have to look into all of these tools that you've listed. They look like they could be fun!

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