T-Rex - my towable wood chipper

[NortonDommi]

I forgot to ask. What method did you use to cut the plate?

[ruxu]

I forgot to ask. What method did you use to cut the plate?

I cut all the plates with a Bosch jigsaw.



It works surprisingly well on plates up to 2mm thickness. Cutting 3mm plate is getting a little bit slow and 4mm is both slow and eating up blades faster.

One thing that you have to do very often is to drill 10mm holes in corners for the cutting blade. The plate must also be held firmly in place, otherwise it starts to vibrate that slows down cutting and increases the risk for breaking the blade.



The blade to the right works for steel but not aluminium - the blade teeth get clogged. The coarse blade to the left is for aluminium. The jigsaw has adjustable speed and for aluminium you have to slow down a bit, otherwise aluminium starts to melt onto the blade making it stick in the cutting groove.