Cutting large boards

Either go for a circular saw and straight guide rail - Bosch industrial, DeWalt, etc although you will need to build a flat sawing support deck as you won't get a straight cut without it, or switch to buying your materials from someone who will cut it, such as a timber merchant or local workshop. Forget about trying to cut 8 x 4ft sheets on a £250 panel saw - they don't have the power and they're simply too small and unstable to do that sort of job safely. I make furniture for a living and I'll cut most things - for a price, as it takes my time, and time is money. I draw the line, however, at recycled or windfall timber as there might be something embedded which will ruin a blade.

BTW the two best machines to break down sheet stock are a wall saw or a sliding carraige panel saw. The latter has the advantage ipof being able to do mitres and bevel edges, but boy they take up a lot of space.

Scrit

Scrit said:

as it takes my time, and time is money.

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You sure you're from Lancs and not Yorkshire?

petewood said:

Scrit said:

as it takes my time, and time is money.

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You sure you're from Lancs and not Yorkshire?

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I'm a Lanky, but whilst my postal address is Lancashire, we are actually in Yorkshire - I suppose it rubs off a bit with contact......

There were some comments earlier in this thread about people charging for sawing materials as though it were unfair in some way, I felt. As someone in the trades if I have the tools and the skills and I do an hours work I expect to be paid for an hours work. Surely that's only fair. It's not to say I don't do favours - but I don't want to do freebies for everyone in the pub when I should be earning my rent, rates, insurance, etc.

Scrit

Scrit said:

As someone in the trades if I have the tools and the skills and I do an hours work I expect to be paid for an hours work. Surely that's only fair.

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Unless you're a plumber, when you do an hours work and get paid for 1/2 a day!