Any of you washington or oregon guys know where i can get my hands on a 15' or larger electric planner, one that the motor is blown up or need some work that i could get cheap.. My plan is to put a gas engine on it , so that i can take it to jobsites and plane out board that ive milled.....Any help greatly appriciated..Or suggestion about the conversion....Robert
I saw a guy at a show that had a 4-side planer mounted on a big trailer that he could pull behind his truck. It also had a big blower for the shavings and a diesel power generator to run the whole operation, much like one that D&L Doublecut, one of the forum's sponsors has. It looked like a nice setup.
Try Barbo Machinery 800-452- 8503 ,Portland, Oregon. They have a lot of used wood working equipment.
Can you plane wet lumber???
Sure you can plane wet lumber ;) , then you come back when the lumbers dry and plane it again, but then the boards are to thin so you to mill more boards then plane those.....Thats a vicious cycle. I actually have severall customers from early summer whos wood is dry that would like to have it planed
I just cut some cedar and some pine that I'd like to plane for some rough shelves. I wasn't sure what the resin would do to the blades.
Might gum them up some. Main thing, the chips and dust will stick to the rollers and not feed smoothly, causing ''snipes'' and burn spots if the rollers are rubber.