You also will want to drill straight, so that both ends of your hole are in the right spot.
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You also will want to drill straight, so that both ends of your hole are in the right spot.
When I have really tough holes to drill, I grab my B&D Professional (made by Elu in Europe) drill with a real transmission, shift it into low and get after it.
It's super powerful and is built to last forever...
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That looks torque'y but we have to drill STRAIGHT, 6" deep and on target.
You also will want to drill straight, so that both ends of your hole are in the right spot.
Yup thats one of problems I had trying to drill straight threw from one side, the hole ended up crooked, all the holes, for some reason I cant drill straight more then 1" deep so if I drill by hand I'll have come from two sides and then I dont know, might do a couple practice holes like that to. Suppose I could make some sort of 4' high roller stand and use my drill, I dont know what the exact weight is on a 6"x6"x16' red oak is but I know I have to use two hands to throw it 16 feet.
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You need one of those bench top drill presses and move it to the log, not vice versa. Or one of those plunge bases that chock into your drill.
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That's pretty good. If my math is correct, that beam weighs about 235 lbs.[((.5 feet x .5 feet)x16 feet/85 ft/cd)x5000 lbs/cd]
If you can toss it 16 feet you're in a lot better shape than I am.
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Will do. I have all my materials gathered, but still need to buy my hardware. Not looking forward to purchasing 100 galvanized lag screws. Anyway my first step is to dig trenches for the bridge abutment foundations, we'll see when I actually get started on that.
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Maybe you're not old enough to remember when B&D was good. But up until the late 1980s, B&D professional tools were top notch. They gradually moved some of the tools over to the DeWalt name when B&D began to focus on consumer tools and later junk. There's a whole back story to tool brand naming that I posted in a thread here recently. The modern day Stanley-Black&Decker company has absorbed all sorts of brands.
Power Tool Manufacturers and Who Really Owns Them | PTR
I have an old B&D Professional chop saw that is amazing. It seems to have 9 lives. Spent 10+ years in industrial use before coming to me, and still going strong. Nobody makes them like that anymore.
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With an 8 amp motor along with a two speed gear drive transmission, it has HUGE power. I use to use it for the "electric starter" on the pony motor of a CAT I owned.
Anyway, to help drill straight, stand something up on what ever you are drilling, like an appropriate sized, taller SQUARE block of wood, and hold the drill along side it, watching for square...
That even works if what ever you drilling isn't sitting level.
SR
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Yep, a sighting block works great for that application.
