Deck Remodel – Thursday (day 19)
No activity due to all the rain this week until today. A break is actually what I’ve been needing though..
I tried cutting off two of the posts today with the miter saw. It was my brother’s idea so I cannot take credit for it – though I am not sure if this is the safest thing to try. Undoubtedly it will save me a lot of sweat but it is probably better as a two man operation as the saw is pretty heavy.
This is probably just as dangerous as it looks!
The saw is a 12″ miter saw.. but probably not big enough. I think a 14″ may get me a lot closer to getting through the entire post. Here’s how far I got with a single cut.
The top arrow shows where the saw motor housing is already running into the wood. The bottom arrow shows how far through the wood the blade made it before stopping.
I was hoping to get to the lumber store where I got the majority of the material before it closed today, however I didn’t get finished at my work in time so hopefully I can get there tomorrow!
I dunno… the fact that you actually have it strapped to the post probably makes it a lot safer than the one-man-holding/one-man-cutting method Chris and Mark used on his deck on Manley…
but then again… neither of them hand to handle the saw 10 feet off the ground by himself….
…and yes I had it unplugged when I mounted it and moved it. It did slide down on me once and scraped my neck when I was trying to put on the cords. The two man operation I was thinking of involves getting it mounted, not the actual cutting process. 😉