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Started by Norwiscutter, October 14, 2006, 06:32:56 PM

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Norwiscutter

Which planers, Straight line rips, moulders etc. do you think are appropriate for the small scale type of operations that we are running?
I don't mind my Logosol for smaller runs, but am looking at other options for more of a production setting.
For instance, I was thinking in particular about the extrema straight line rips and two sided planers for doing bulk S2s runs and for presizing blanks for the logosol. I want to be in a situation where I could anually produce 300-500,000 bf of finished product and am looking for the right equipment to match such a setting. 
Si vis pacem, para bellum.

footer

UM, 500,000MBF is 500 million board feet. You call that small scale?

HORSELOGGER

Rip the blanks in the rough on either a SLR or a Twin Rip...get a 6 head moulder and use it to dress the blanks down to 7/8 then through again for profiling if so inclined. Some will make flooring with rough blanks right off the rip. I have done it on my 5 head Weinig, but usually will run the rip strips through the moulder to get a uniform thickness. 2 sided planers are too expensive and too narrow a use machine for the size shop you are talking about in my opinion. A 5 or 6 head moulder gives you a ton of flexability.
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Norwiscutter

You are absolutly correct footer. Must of messed it up which is not uncommon.
300,000 to 500,000 BF is my meaning. Unless of course I can get those kind of numbers out of my LT30 which I will then probably have to hire another guy or two.

Flexability is exactly what I am looking for because I can't afford to have a $25,000 piece of equipment just sitting around.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.

fencerowphil (Phil L.)

Horselogger,

Don't be meaning to beat a dead horse on this older thread, but..
???
Is the advantage of a six head molder that the first two heads
act as a jointing/flattening and thickness planer operation?    Or do the
first two heads/cutters fine tune the width and thickness plane
one side?
In other words, do they prepare the stock for the final
4-sided molding in whatever form dictated by the knives
you have installed?

Phil L.
Bi-VacAtional:  Piano tuner and sawyer.  (Use one to take a vacation from the other.) Have two Stihl 090s, one Stihl 075, Echo CS8000, Echo 346,  two Homely-ite 27AVs, Peterson 10" Swingblade Winch Production Frame, 36" and 54"Alaskan mills, and a sore back.

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