Concrete Wire Sawing

Wire sawing cuts concrete in even the hardest to reach places — underwater, in very confined spaces and on limited-access jobsites. Consider wire sawing if you want to eliminate disruptions, reduce line downtime and minimize cost on your concrete sawing project.

Cuts through nearly unlimited wall thicknesses
Cuts metal and thick, heavily reinforced concrete to your exact specifications
Ideal for industrial and heavy civil applications, especially in live production facilities or in areas where there is restricted access
Offers the highest flexibility with the positioning of the machine
Works well when you have a limited amount of space
Produces low vibration, noise, and dust, enabling controlled demolition in busy traffic, sensitive and occupied areas, and where trades, line operations and production facilities must continue to work without interruption

Concrete Wire Sawing Service Now Available Worldwide!

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Remove concrete bridges, foundations, underwater bridge pilings, and more!
Demolish massive buildings, bridges, or almost anything large constructed of concrete
Ideal for industrial and heavy civil applications, especially in live production facilities or in areas where there is restricted access
Produces low vibration, noise, and dust, enabling controlled demolition in busy traffic, sensitive and occupied areas, and where trades, line operations and production facilities must continue to work without interruption
Cuts through nearly unlimited wall thicknesses
Cuts metal and thick, heavily reinforced concrete to your exact specifications
Offers the highest flexibility with the positioning of the machine
Works well when you have a limited amount of space

How Concrete Wire Sawing Works

A hydraulically powered, diamond impregnated “rope” is drawn, like cheese-wire, through concrete flooring, walls, and beams, leaving clean, smooth surfaces.

The wire has a steel core of strands 6mm in diameter and can be almost any length. 10mm diamond beads are spaced along its length approximately 30mm apart.

The wire is positioned over the pulleys and fed through pre-drilled holes in the concrete you want cut. The wire, joined by special crimps, is then pulled back over the drive pulley.

Wire sawing is carried out by sawing at a constant speed while applying pressure on the wire by expanding the pulleys.

Wire sawing originated in the stone quarries of Europe as a fast, safe, and cost effective alternative to conventional demolition methods. Wire sawing is a flexible sawing technique that can be used to cut out large areas. The system can be configured to fit into confined spaces and is ideally designed for extremely thick concrete.

Electric Wire Saw

Electric wire saw cutting is available in areas where noise and fumes are undesirable. Electric wire saw cutting is useful for the structural alteration of buildings and the technical demolition of structural components (bridges, chimneys, foundations). It can be used to create openings of all kinds in almost any shape.

CanWest can use an electric wire saw to cut a wide range of materials, including heavily reinforced concrete and metre-thick stonework. It’s safe, clean and effective.

Wire sawing Roller compacted concrete test pad to evaluate layers

CanWest assists the Royal Tyrrell Museum

CanWest recently assisted the Royal Tyrrell Museum with the trimming down of two Spirit River hadrosaur skull blocks. The blocks originally had a combined weight of 18,500 pounds. Some 13,0000 pounds of waste rock was removed.

CanWest helped save many hundreds of hours of work and created a much enhanced health and safely situation for technicians at the Royal Tyrrell Museum.

Concrete Wire Sawing

Concrete Wire Sawing Service Now Available Worldwide!

How Concrete Wire Sawing Works

Electric Wire Saw

CanWest assists the Royal Tyrrell Museum

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