Sorry. Posting pre-coffee. All those highlander border raiders run together after a while. 
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And yet you did.
Oh,well.
Same here.
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I remember this being described as a very real possibility before any were even installed. So of course it’s already happening…
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Which is why nobody has built any in modern times until Cheeto Mussolini and his self aggrandizing security theater.
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I use saw like that (but cheaper brand and corded) to cut high density tooling boards into smaller pieces before CNC machining them. I haven’t seen more convenient tool for sawing through 150mm thick tooling board.
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Here’s a contemporary wall referring to an earlier one:
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Serious question: How much does it cost for a welder to drive out in the desert and repair the slat? More or less than $100? My guess is more, much more.
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Without Latino tradesmen, his buildings in the U.S. would have never been constructed.
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Less if you hire somebody from the, uh, Mexican side to do it for you. One benefit is that he may know exactly where the break is
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BB Amazon affiliate link to cordless wall cutters?
Based on other people who viewed this item you may also be interested in: tall ladder, rope and hook, long pole.
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Probably hard to use a reciprocating saw when there are alligators trying to chew off your leg. Just saying.
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It’s not a binary. It’s not like walls either work or don’t work. A wall can slow people down, and reduce the number of guards you need to patrol an area effectively. But a wall that’s not patrolled is going to get breached, exactly as the article suggests, so the question is really - how many fewer guards do you need with a wall than without? How else are you catching people that get through? What damage are you preventing by keeping them out?
Regardless of what you think of historical walls I think it’s pretty clear that a wall across a big empty desert that’s easy to surveil is a stupid waste of money, unless the goal is to look like you’re solving the problem while actually not solving the problem.
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Lol, the republican MO for the last, what? 40 years?
That and: “Pretend you’re trying to solve a problem while spending a lot of active effort making it much worse on purpose, then using that as evidence that the government is the problem, not the actual problem.”
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well, duh. who the hell thinks an impenetrable wall is even physically possible to construct? i can’t believe my country is being dismantled by such blithering idiots. i mean, there is recent historical precedent for making borders hard to cross (cough East German frontier), and it didn’t rely on walls that people just couldn’t scale/cut through…
though i suppose i should be glad they haven’t figured that part out, yet.
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the one in Berlin only worked because they also had a hell of a lot of machine guns and mines…
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I think I may have lost a betting pool on how the wall was going to be defeated. My bet was gas powered cutter with abrasive disc.
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Nah! In order to have Trump’s wall as tight a the Berlin Wall you only need 400 bunkers, 6000 guard towers, 140000 paramilitary guardsmen, 1.1 million land mines and a partridge in a pear tree.
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Or put a $50 inverter in you car… you know, the one you drove out to the well to haul your sawzall, ladder, and smuggled goods with?
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Please don’t give him any ideas!
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