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The Medway Handyman

wrote:
I can't see how is sufficient for 4.8m timber, it's just 3.7m long or
1.85m either side of the saw line. If lopping off say 100mm from a
4.8m length there will be 2.85m overhanging the end of the left hand
support, more than enough for it to overbalance the free end.

You clamp the saw down at one end of the bench, and it's exactly 2.2m
from the line of the blade to the furthest support.

(those pics of it with the saw in the middle is just the work of the
clueless photographers)

I'm right-handed, so the saw is set at the extreme right of my bench
(of the non-extendable area) and just as you would normally press the
timber against the back fence with your left hand - so you do with a
slightly overlength timber, to support it during & after the cut.

In practice, you would very rarely trim 100mm from one end of a 4.8m
timber anyway.

Quite common when deck building, granted 100mm isn't common, but cutting a
sort length (250-300mm) is. Depends what the supplier has in stock & how
big the deck is.

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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk