Budget Electric jack hammer

mayoman1973

I'm looking for one of these after a mate showed me one he got in Lidl for < 100 Eur 2 yrs ago. Has used it loads of time and it still going. Lidl dont have any such tool on offer lately so does anyone know where I could get an equivalent priced/quality one? BnQ's tools are similarly priced but i've been stung twice with their's and I have never faulted any such purchase from Lidl

ART6

I have a Macallister SDS one that I bought from B&Q about three years ago. It came with a set of chisels in a carry case and from memory cost less than €100. It's a beast of a thing with rotary action (no hammer), hammer drilling, and hammer only (no rotation). It will drive a one inch masonry drill through a concrete block wall in seconds. I have even used it to break a channel through a concrete path to lay a drain pipe. I have yet to find something it won't do!

DublinDilbert

Get a decent SDS drill with roto-stop so it can be used with a chisel function.

Bought a hitachi one for about €120 there before Christmas, its a great thing. Have lifted a 6" thick piece of concrete with it to replace a shore and lots of other jobs.

I would advise you to pay a little more as the more expensive models generally have a safety clutch, much safer to use and a must if you want to do core drilling etc.. The cheap ones will take you right off a ladder...

mayoman1973

How would an SDS drill compare to a kango type jack hammer for going through 6" of fairly strong concrete?

ART6

mayoman1973 wrote: »

How would an SDS drill compare to a kango type jack hammer for going through 6" of fairly strong concrete?

The tool I referred to earlier is much the same thing. However, it depends on the size of Kango that you want to compare it to. The largest industrial ones would certainly outperform anything that you could buy from a DIY outlet, but at many times the cost. If you want to drill through concrete then ones like the one I bought will do that quickly and without any problems. If you want to chisel through it, then that would take quite a bit longer but it would still do it. If you want to do just one job then a better bet might be to hire a Kango from a plant hire company, but it would almost certainly be 110v, so you would have to also hire a transformer.

DublinDilbert

mayoman1973 wrote: »

How would an SDS drill compare to a kango type jack hammer for going through 6" of fairly strong concrete?

Do you want to do it once? Or do it every day?

For a once off job a decent sds chisel will do the job.

I've gone through 6" of 50 year old concrete. A 9" grinder is a good idea to cut the surface...

paddy147

If you have alot of concrete to break up then hire a propper one out for a day or weekend.

Thats what me missus did when she needed to break up 9 inch thick concrete with lumps of granite under it.Her smaller DSD/Impact drill wouldnt go through this path,so she hire out a 110v and transformer.Long concrete path broken up in under 30 minutes.:)