Slot morticing video, machined Sweet Chestnut hurdles

[wills-mill]

Smart hurdles. I make the odd cleft hurdle and i'm interested in how the production time of your sawn ones compares to cleft. I understand its probly trickey to figure out if each process is done in batches. I'd probly do 4 or 5 in a day cleft, from log to hurdle. I'm sure i'd speed up if I got more orders for them!

 

It is a headache working out the time involved. I made up all the components for 10 in a relaxed day (excluding the milling) with other things thrown in, and that was the first time through the process. I then knocked most of them together at the (miserably wet) Weald Wood Fair as something to do on the stand (I hate standing around like a lemon with nothing to do).

There's a fair bit of machine setup, it would be most effective to have enough material to hand ready to go to make up 50 or so. I suppose it depends how mad I go with assembly jigs and the like to get them finished, but 15 to 20 a day wouldn't be too impossible.