I need to cut precise 15mm thick slots upwards from the end of a load of posts, rip cuts with the grain across the diameter - to insert steel plates for footings
These are large posts, 300mm in diameter and 5 to 7 metres long.
There are around 40 slots needed and they all need to be square and accurate to plane, but there is a few mil tolerance for cut width.
What would you use to cut these slots?
if there were only a couple I'd cut them by hand, but the numbers imply machinery.
suggestions have ranged from chainsaw (doubts about accuracy), alligator saw (doubts about cut width making two parrallel cuts tricky), and even setting up an industrial bandsaw with a sliding bed.
Has anyone here done this before? Perhaps to set column foot brackets.
How would you do it?
These are large posts, 300mm in diameter and 5 to 7 metres long.
There are around 40 slots needed and they all need to be square and accurate to plane, but there is a few mil tolerance for cut width.
What would you use to cut these slots?
if there were only a couple I'd cut them by hand, but the numbers imply machinery.
suggestions have ranged from chainsaw (doubts about accuracy), alligator saw (doubts about cut width making two parrallel cuts tricky), and even setting up an industrial bandsaw with a sliding bed.
Has anyone here done this before? Perhaps to set column foot brackets.
How would you do it?