Turning your rough boards into lovely smooth ones

[Duncansimpson]

I find a 4 or 9 inch grinder with sanding discs really effective and also really cheap. Planer thicknessers are great if you have money and are a professional

[billpierce]

i too use a 9'' makita grinder with 9'' discs. works great for out door furniture etc but obviously hard to get a dead flat planed surface you can get 24 grit discs which eats the chainsaw marks out reet quick.

[TheHungrySquirrel]

Another option would be to make a router sled for levelling with. Big 50mm bit in the router and a few passes would be ready to sand.

[Big Beech]

Another option would be to make a router sled for levelling with. Big 50mm bit in the router and a few passes would be ready to sand.

 

I've seen several tube videos of this on big slabs, this one recently so was on my history

 

Thickness planing an 800 pound monster slab of eucalyptus with a router ...:

[delabodge]

alternatively we could all chip in and buy a monster planer and have it with a co-operative mill based somewhere,,,? all run by members and a club house to get together,,,,,,,sorry just dreaming,,lol

[wills-mill]

The 30in Wadkin is sat next to a 4 cylinder Perkins

 

Perhaps I need to find a hookloader flat- then the big thicknesser and a band resaw could go travelling?

 

Edit- to be honest, manipulating massive slabs to feed them through a thicknesser without knackering the machine would be a bit of a nightmare. It's quite a lot to expect a thicknesser to cope with wide waney Oak that has kinked and moved when drying, and getting them over a surface planer by hand to get a decent flat surface (and not crack the cast iron beds) would also be a bit of a pickle.

 

Perhaps the router sled and handheld tools are best

Edited April 5, 2015 by wills-mill

[Graham w]

The 30in Wadkin is sat next to a 4 cylinder Perkins

 

Perhaps I need to find a hookloader flat- then the big thicknesser and a band resaw could go travelling?

 

Edit- to be honest, manipulating massive slabs to feed them through a thicknesser without knackering the machine would be a bit of a nightmare. It's quite a lot to expect a thicknesser to cope with wide waney Oak that has kinked and moved when drying, and getting them over a surface planer by hand to get a decent flat surface (and not crack the cast iron beds) would also be a bit of a pickle.

 

Perhaps the router sled and handheld tools are best

 

actually not a problem at all! these older lumps of cast are built to work and if set up correct will eat anything. not too long ago i was asked to thickness 20''wide sycamore boards that were badly bowed out of it, adjusted the pressure over the infeed rollers on the thicknesser to squeeze them flat as they passed through, just to be sure for an accurate finish.

 

 

 

could a wide drum chipper not be fitted with planer blades and slighty modified to plane large timbers? already mobile and diesel engined lol

[gobbypunk]

Hi guys I would be up for a Co Op in my workshop with a big thicknesses ,I have an alaskan and am looking for a bandmill at the mo and would be well into a co op we already have stained glass and metal work ,we are in shaftesbury dorset come down and have a look everybody welcome

cheers Mark

[Graham w]

i would be keen for a larger thicknesser in scotland

[se7enthdevil]

there are a few good ones on ebay at the moment.

 

Planer Thicknesser Dominion DAA 24" X 9" Ford Motor Co £3750 + Vat £4500 | eBay

 

 

Wadkin RM 24? Planer Thicknesser | eBay

 

 

WADKIN RK630 24X9 THICKNESSER- SAW MILL WOODWORKING MACHINE | eBay