I make rustic slab benches and I needed lots of legs.

Making large tenons is work and can also be dangerous.

I was at an auction one day and seen this machine in the first picture.

I said to my self now what can I build out of this. 

I took everything apart and cleaned it up the best I could.

Then I bought a Delta 12" wood lathe headstock and mounted it.

 

I put a huge tenon bit in the lathe chuck...

Then I made a Carrier for the log.

 

Tenon bit weights 45lbs.

 

Edited June 9, 20206 yr by Kevin Beitz

Finished product.   

 

 

York, PA is just an hour east of here!

 

Awesome looking machine!!!

Ditto. Does the job, alright.

York PA is 3 weeks from here. 

1 hour ago, Gene Howe said:

York PA is 3 weeks from here.

Varnish day tomorrow....

 

Pretty interesting machine you made.  And seems to work very well.  NICE!!

This tenon bit I'm using came off a machine that had a 6 1/2hp  1156 RPM 3 phase motor. The bit was hooked directly on the motor shaft. I would not want to be the operator of that machine.

 

 

I just finished up making a 15 deg. drill table for drilling 2" forest bit holes in my bench bases. Works great. Table lifts off so i can use my slab saw. Press stays attached.

Cool Idea!

 

Sometime back, I made some chairs for the little kids next door. Compound angles for all of the legs. I built a sine plate to help drill the holes. Don't use it often but it sure does fill the bill when doing that kind of work,