Wow, I am glad I haven’t used this 3.5″ cold chisel from My Red Toolbox in a while. I picked up a few cold chisels long long ago when I did a lot of foundation work. I believe this 3 1/2″ cold chisels is referred to as a Brick Chisel. It’s about right for halving bricks.

Experience:

My career in Home Improvement began with years of intense concrete work. I’m not talking about getting a backhoe to dig a big hole on an empty lot and then crane in forms. I’m talking about hand-excavating under a house built on sleepers and installing posts and beams and a perimeter foundation. I’m talking about working under countless houses in cramped crawlspaces, drilling, digging, forming and pouring concrete for seismic upgrades… I’m talking about building unusual custom shaped form-work and pouring, pumping, shooting…and eventually chiseling concrete.

Carpenters carry cold chisels because part of any handyman’s routine is pouring a new landing for a deck, setting posts in Sonotube and working with existing slabs and walls. Personally, I love the permanency of concrete products and have always enjoyed the hard labor for it’s result.

I am proud to have built some amazing forms and poured walls for both commercial and residential work over the years. I doubt that I missed scratching a five-pointed star, six-pointed star or some Sanskrit in a single one. Here’s my largest width cold chisel; a Dasco Pro.

Links:
Dasco #335-0 2-3/4 Mason Chisel

Footprint 1237 110113 3-Inch Brick Chisel with Grip
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Footprint 1237 110120 4-Inch Brick Chisel with Grip