Jackhammer for concrete floor

irishguy19772 wrote: »

I need to install a 2 foot pipe flush with concrete floor. To put in a removable gate hanging pillar in shed.

I have about 4 or 5 inches of concrete to dig out

I was going to hire a kango out for around 40 euro for day in Clare area.
Spotted this in Aldi on Sunday.

Would this do the job or am I better getting the good tool ?
https://www.aldi.ie/ferrex-jack-hammer/p/802984430649000

I have a bit of work coming up for a breaker. It won't all be done the one day, which is swaying me away from hiring. Has anyone any experience of the one linked below? Price wise, it's a lot less than a second hand Bosch, for example, and only a fraction of the cost of a new branded one (which isn't really an option). I suppose it's a case of you get what you pay for?

https://www.raygrahams.com/products/149274-draper-56411-185kg-1700w-breaker.aspx

Thanks! That looks like great value for money. All good reviews on the screwfix site too...

That reminds me of the first job I got on a placement farm as an apprentice, digging through 6 inches of the toughest concrete for gate posts and stalls in a calving shed six holes in total for railway rails. The farmer thought it would be a great idea for me to do it with a lump hammer and chisel. I did it, one evening his son arrives home from school and into the shed to ask me how it was going, I was fit to fire the chisel at him.

The young lad was 17 only a year younger than me at the time, the ould lad probably put him up to it to rub salt in the wound.