The Upside of the 2020 Pandemic.

TnAndy · May 1, 2020

Gale Hawkins said:
Can you think of one positive that may come out of this pandemic?

Getting a lot of projects caught up at home ! Spent the last couple days building boxes to expand my honey bees.

Molalla1 · May 1, 2020

^^^^ Nice Andy!

Gale Hawkins · May 1, 2020

TnAndy said:
Getting a lot of projects caught up at home ! Spent the last couple days building boxes to expand my honey bees.

You are getting ready for next winter I see. Nice job. This that popular lumber?

TnAndy · May 1, 2020

Gale Hawkins said:
You are getting ready for next winter I see. Nice job. This that popular lumber?

Yes....some I sawed a while back on my mill. Have a lot of 2nd/3rd growth poplar on the place, some of it fairly decent size.

5030 · May 1, 2020

Gale Hawkins said:
We do tend to vote for the lowest price.

It is hard to find enough US citizens to run our meat processing plants or to harvest our food.

Can you think of one positive that may come out of this pandemic?

I can right off... Less SS recipients equals a longer solvency for SS and more monthly payments for me....

5030 · May 1, 2020

Gale Hawkins said:
You are getting ready for next winter I see. Nice job. This that popular lumber?

That a battery powered table saw maybe?

TnAndy · May 1, 2020

5030 said:
That a battery powered table saw maybe?

It could be battery powered I guess, but at 5hp, the battery would have to be fairly hefty.

Steppenwolfe · May 1, 2020

5030 said:
I can right off... Less SS recipients equals a longer solvency for SS and more monthly payments for me....

Not if you die... They tend to stop those payments real quick. :laughing:

Steppenwolfe · May 1, 2020

TnAndy said:
It could be battery powered I guess, but at 5hp, the battery would have to be fairly hefty.

VERY NICE. I like that planer.

TnAndy · May 1, 2020

Steppenwolfe said:
VERY NICE. I like that planer.

Thanks. Real upgrade from my first one, a 15" Grizzly.....light weight thing walked all over the floor. Red machine to the left is a Williams/Hussy 6" planer (never used that feature) molder that does an amazing job of making moldings.

Current planer is a 20" Grizzly with the spiral insert tooth head....wow...is that thing quiet compared to a straight knife head. Been using it several years now and have yet to rotate the carbide teeth (can rotate them 4 times)....still cutting like new. It has a 5hp main motor for the head and a 2hp feed motor for the wood.