Trying to get this top finished before Wednesday and ran into a machine problem on Saturday.

This is a different bolt from before, but the second one that has backed out of the gear box on the grizzly planner.

 

Notice the gear on the right is missing the bolt in the center. I heard a noise and shut the machine down. Removed the gear box and the bolt was laying in the bottom of the gear box. There is an adjustment for the out feed roller just behind that and I guess the vibration had caused the bolts holding that in place to loosen also and it drop down. So I tell you all that to say that the planer was cutting lower on one side than the other. I used to lock tight and put the bolts back in but it took me two days to get everything set back up so that it is once again cutting flat side to side.

I am not sure exactly when the bolt started working loose. Ron noticed it was cutting lower on one side when we were running the cedar for the walnut blanket chest so it may have started then or even before.

Anyway all it back together after much fussing and we are back to running boards through the Grizzly Planner.

I got the four panels for the Kitchen Island run through after everything was set back up and right and got them glued into to two panels. I will sand the joint smooth on this glue up and then tonight put these two pieces together and have one large (41"x51"x2") Maple Island top done. It will head out Wednesday for Naples, Florida.
 

 

 

 

All I can say is they are quite heavy and then add the clamps and it really gets heavy.

After we got these glued up, I had received a call wanting to know if I wanted a Walnut Tree. Well, duh, I always want walnut trees, so we hooked up the trailer and headed out to get it. I will be taken these three logs alone with 10 other Walnut logs to the saw mill this week.

 

 

Two of these are 10' long and one is 12' long. The fellow that called me said he had tried to give it to three people and they wouldn't come get it. Didn't take me long to get there.

 

 

The end is near!

Looking Good!

John, What shipper do you use to send large/heavy things like this?

Lew this piece is being picked up by a family member and taken there. But in the past I have used Old Dominion Truck line.

Thanks, John, I am supposed to make a large trellis to ship to my brother in California. Not really heavy but will probably be a large flat pallet pack.

I got the best rates when I checked around with Old Dominion. You might find others, but they did a very good job for me.