Hand SawingBendigo
Portable, quick and into places no machine will fit. Cuts to 150mm, and further again with a ring saw beside it.
- 24/7Every day, all year
- 20+ yrsCommercial / Civil
- CSDAAMember and insured
- 4.9 starsFrom 16 reviews
The saw that goes where the machines cannot
A hand saw is carried in, not tracked in. Up a ladder, into a roof space, down a trench, inside a finished room, on a scaffold over an empty pool. If a person can stand there, the saw can cut there, and that is worth a lot on jobs where setting up a tracked machine would take longer than the cut itself.
It cuts to 150mm, which covers most house slabs, brickwork, blockwork, pipes and pavers. Where a job needs to go deeper we bring a ring saw alongside it, which reaches 270mm on the same setup without changing machines mid job.
Because it is quick to set up, it is usually the right call on small jobs and on the last few percent of big ones. Squaring off a corner a wall saw could not reach, trimming an opening to fit, cutting a couple of pavers, opening up a slab for a repair.
What turns up
- Depth
- Up to 150mm
- With ring saw
- Up to 270mm
- Cuts
- Concrete, brick, block
- Access
- Anywhere you can stand
- Set up
- Minutes
- Availability
- 24/7, 365
The jobs a hand saw does best
Small, awkward, urgent, or the last cut on a big job. Anything where getting a machine in would cost more than the cut.
Small openings
Doorways, servery holes, vents and duct penetrations through brick, block and thinner concrete walls.
Slab repairs
Cutting out a failed or cracked section of path, driveway or shed floor so a clean square patch can go back in.
Finishing other cuts
Squaring the corners a tracked saw cannot reach, so nothing is left to be broken out with a hammer.
Pipes and services
Cutting concrete and clay pipe, kerb and drainage components to length on site.
Tight and elevated access
Scaffold, roof spaces, trenches, plant rooms and pool shells, where the saw is carried in by hand and nothing else can be.
Urgent call outs
Burst services, emergency access and after hours make safe work, where the answer is needed in an hour not a week.
Hand sawing Bendigo, and the small jobs nobody else wants
Hand sawing is the reason a lot of Bendigo customers ring us at all. One opening, one patch, one pipe, one corner. Jobs a bigger contractor will not travel for, and jobs that do not justify getting a tracked machine off the truck.
Being local is most of the value here. A twenty minute job stops making any sense the moment there is an hour of travel either side of it, which is why a Bendigo based crew can quote work that a Melbourne contractor simply cannot.
It is also the saw that goes out at 2am. Burst services, emergency access and make safe work all get done with gear that is already in the truck and needs nothing more than somewhere to stand.
Often on the same job
- Ring Sawing Bendigo Past 150mm the ring saw picks it up, on the same visit.
- Core Drilling Bendigo Where the hole wants to be round rather than cut square.
Hand Sawing across the region
Bendigo is the base, but the truck is on the road most days. Same gear, same crew, same hours, right across central Victoria and southern New South Wales.
Bendigo
VICEaglehawk, Kangaroo Flat, Strathfieldsaye, Huntly, Epsom
Echuca
VICMoama, Rochester, Kyabram, Lockington
Swan Hill
VICKerang, Cohuna, Robinvale, Nyah
Shepparton
VICMooroopna, Tatura, Numurkah, Nagambie
Seymour
VICNagambie, Broadford, Euroa, Kilmore, Heathcote, Puckapunyal
Deniliquin
NSWFinley, Barham, Tocumwal, Jerilderie, Hay
Asked often
How deep will a hand saw cut?
Up to 150mm. Where the job needs more we run a ring saw alongside it and get to 270mm without bringing a second crew or a tracked machine to site.
Is a hand saw accurate enough for a door opening?
For an opening that has to be dead square to a frame, a wall saw on a track is the right tool. A hand saw is accurate enough for most openings and it is what we use to finish the corners a wall saw cannot reach.
Do you cut brick and block as well as concrete?
Yes. Brick, block, pavers, pipe and reinforced concrete are all standard for a hand saw.
Will you come out for one small cut?
Yes. A lot of the work is one cut, one hole or one patch. Being based in Bendigo means a short job stays a short job rather than turning into a travel bill.
Can you cut without water inside a house?
We cut wet wherever we can, because dry cutting concrete makes silica dust. Inside a finished house we bund and vacuum the water, or run dust extraction where water genuinely cannot be used.
Can you come out after hours?
Yes, 24 hours a day, all year. Hand sawing is the gear that usually goes out on the emergency calls, because it is in the truck and ready to go.
Small job, still worth a call
No job too small is not a slogan here, it is most of the diary. Send a photo and a measurement and you will get a price the same business day.