How To Cut Railroad Ties

- September 19, 2021

Mike shows us how to cut a railroad tie using a circular saw and reciprocating saw to get clean cuts. It is on every saw we use.

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None of our workers sharpen their own chain so this is what they have found to take the most abuse until the saw is returned to the tool room at the end of the day.

How to cut railroad ties. Find railroad ties at Lowes today. This is not a slam but railroad ties pretty much look like junk anyhow. A chinsaw is still faster but doesnt give as nice a cut.

3 Cut through the top railroad tie along. Railroad ties here on the Railroad the standard chain is Stihl 33RS. Theyre wood and should cut with a chain saw if clean.

When I lived on US2 in Montana and used old ties for a retaining wall on the front yars the state made me get rid of it because of the chemicals in the wood. One thing I should mention check with the local authorities. We like to start them off with a 5 lb hand sledge and finish them off with a 10 lb full sledge hammer when the goin gets tough.

Mark the railroad tie with a straight line about 6 inches out from each side of the rebar entry holes dividing each rebar location into 12-inch lengths. As old railroad lines became repurposed as hiking and biking trails repurposing the huge railroad ties in landscape work seemed like a good way to use the wood. If youre going to cut logs for railroad ties you should know where the specifications you are targeting come from.

If you dont have a chain saw get a reciprocal cutter and use a long demo blade trying to make square cuts. Ive tried this and it worked pretty well. I cut them in half with a chainsaw.

You can try a big circular saw wiht carbide tipped blades. If you dont use a circular saw and you will probably have to make cuts all around. Now go straight and cut the tie around ¾ of the total gravity.

Once youve got the pin almost all the way in and theres about 4-5 inches sticking up pound it over to lock the railroad tie down so it cant slide off the pin. For cutting ties vs ripping wood I use a Fine Finish carbide tipped blade. It is worth spending a few bucks to get a good quality blade that will not go dull and overheat.

Here we maintain the carefulness. After doing it would help evade the chain from fastening. He saws upwards at the end so that the tie doesnt pinc.

After many years of poor purchases of edging for added flower gardens we decided to purchase railroad tie to create a new curb appeal and deeper edge. I built some steps on a steep hill out of some railroad ties that i purchased at lowes and made a flower bed beside them. Begin by setting the saw fence to the height of a RR tie.

While you are cutting the ties keep the utmost carefulness. Now take the chainsaw out and finish the cutting by from the above to the under the tie. Because the chainsaw was about 50 to re.

Using old railroad ties for landscaping projects such as retaining walls garden edging and raised garden beds was once very common practice and it was even regarded as a good environmental strategy. I started a discussion on Facebook a few weeks ago about what would be the best tool to cut through a railroad tie. Theres no easy way to cut coated ties.

Be it new or old ties they have found it to last the longest. Of course logs are manufactured into railroad ties through a chain of different companies but at the top of the pyramid is a railroad customer who writes the master specifications for the ties that the company intends to put in. We originally purchased a BUNCH of these nearly 14 years ago and though they do require a VERY SHARP chain saw blade to cut them or many blades they have served their purpose for all these years.

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