Cutting lead

i once got given 4stone of range waste - spent bullets taken from the sand traps never again! i made about a dozen leads and had a headache for the rest of the day - i ended up dumping most of the lead and have had no problems since.

Yup, you have to be careful with 'old' lead. Some of it, for example, may have come from old gas piping and can have gas in some of the voids even years after it was decomissioned. Makes for a nasty surprise when you take a blowlamp to it, I hear....

Or if you don't have a grinder, you can cut it as follows if it's the type of lead used by roofers:

Make a deep score with a stanley knife, doing this with the lead on a piece of wood on the ground while standing on the larger part makes it safer.
Turn it over and bend along the score a few times and then tear it off.

I have to agree with Adrian. The best and safest way to cut lead sheeting is with a knife maybe not a Stanley knife. You can buy a purpose made knife from a good plumbing supplies shop they are the ideal tool as they are quite heavy. Having been a plumber and worked with lead sheeting the health and safety Reg's are quite strict on the handling of dangerous and toxic material so scoring the lead with a knife and tearing the piece off it the best and safest method of cutting lead.

Anyway that's the serious stuff over :) hope you keep enjoying your fishing all the best Sandstorm. :D :D :D