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Rail is some tough stuff ,manganese alloy steel .The reason they where moving that saw about so much is two fold .First with that hard of steel it will glaze the wheel up so much it otherwise would quite cutting and two manganese steel "wear hardens " rapidly .It can get nearly as hard as...

I've got two electric abrasive saws ,14" I picked up on the cheap at an auction .For some things they are fine .However on thick carbon steel they can heat the metal so much it gets hard as a rock almost impossible to machine .Stuff like that a bandsaw is better . Nice to have around though...

Old trick cutting rail .They would notch around the rail with a cold chisel then hit it with a CO2 fire extinguisher then smack it with a sledge hammer .Break that rail as smooth as if it were saw cut if they did it correctly . On that subject at one time I could cut rail pretty good with a...

Well yes the big ones work like a charm .My buddy with the welding shop has a 10 HP cut off saw that goes through heavy steel like a hot knife through butter . Kinda comical because he had it for years and couldn't figure why it cut so slow .The damned motor was connected for 480 and he was...

You have to remember that a cut off saw unlike a chainsaw might run for a long time at a streatch .With a chainsaw unless you're milling or stumping might only run a few minutes at a time .A gasoline abrasive saw cutting concrete might go through a whole tank running WOT . They usually have...

What would happen is your buddys would borrow it,not pay for it,lose it ,break it or steal it .Worse yet loan the damned thing to someone else and that's the last you'd ever see of it .

Well if for nothing else it's damned good trading stock if it runs .

You can always find a chainsaw or a thousand of them .A decent cut off saw doesn't come around that often .If it were cheap enough and wasn't all screwed up if you used it only once it would pay for itself .