best ways to smash up a cast iron bath?

[lame plumber]

I smashed one up once! All the rest I got out in one piece.
The only time I had a problem was when I was working with a labourer who was a bit deaf.
I shouted him to move out to one side to square it up as I slid it down the stairs and he pushed it towards me instead. I did the daintiest dance as it chased me down the stairs! Could have had my freaking legs off!
Learnt a lesson that day and now I think the job out carefully and do them on my own.

should have just hopped in the bath and done a cresta run 🙂

 

[woodytheplumber]

the first time I went to do a bathroom to help my retired plumber of a granddad out (for his sister) must have been 10 year ago when he was in his early 70s he poped the waste out of the bath put his claw hammer through the hole handle end into the bath claw underneath and woosh he had it on his back and was walking down the stairs

 

[PowerFlusher2]

Call a local reclamation yard and offer it collect only for a fiver - Sarah Beeney or Nick Knowles will be after one of these?

 

[clarky101]

Not being funny but why does the op need to know how hard to hit a bath to break it with a hammer....googles, ear plugs,hammer, hit it til it goes...carry it out, pikey van turns up and takes it..

 

[jim fennessey]

wrap it up in an old painters dust sheet then give it the malky,lift large sections carefully with leather gloves take to scrapers yard and roll up dust sheet and bin all the loose shrapnel,

 

[Kyle87]

I cut one in half today. 3 cheap 1mm 4,1/2"cutting discs and job done. Smashing it to bits just seems like too much effort.

 

[stevetheplumber]

always hit sideways not straight down

 

[SimonG]

Knock outwards down one corner and break into 5 pieces. Two ends, two sides and a bottom.

Wouldn't want to use an angle grinder on it.