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PVC Pipe Cutter

This may not look like much, or seem that important. It didn’t to me until I started installing my sprinkler heads and needed to start cutting a lot of poly pipe. It even meant more when I installed a system with PVC pipe and needed to do a lot of cutting with that.

This  PVC Cutter is one of the handiest tools to have with you when installing a sprinkler system. It has an incredibly sharp (replaceable) blade, and has a ratcheting grip. It will open wide enough to cut a one inch pipe, and cuts through PVC pipe like butter. The one pictured here is pretty common, but I most often seem them look very similar and in red if you are at the store looking for it.

Before finding this I planned on just using a little saw to cut through all the PVC pipe, but boy did this save some time. The ratchet functionality lets you easily cut through the PVC pipe with great ease. The advantages to this little tools are:

• There are no little shavings to mess up your gluing like you would get from sawing.
• it requires very little effor to cut through the pipe.
• It is much faster than sawing.
• It’s much less dangerous then trying to cut with a regular open knife.

This tool will also cut through poly pipe with ease without crushing is as long as the blade stays sharp. This PVC cutting tool is a must have for any sprinkler installation job.

Posted under: Handy Tools