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  0 Thread: Wood Chipper recommendations
Post: RE: Wood Chipper recommendations
greenacres2 Wrote: (Yesterday, 05:39 AM) -- Once you get to $240-$300 for a day, we have a local tree guy (does a lot of agricultural fence row removals) who would pull into my driveway for an hour a...
 DogwoodTales Home Improvement 8 191 3 hours ago
  0 Thread: Wood Chipper recommendations
Post: Wood Chipper recommendations
My local Home Depot has a Bluebird 4" wood chipper to rent for $112 per day, but how fast will that work? The branches I have to shred are up to 2-3" at some points, but mostly 2" and smaller. I c...
 DogwoodTales Home Improvement 8 191 04-21-2025, 12:16 PM
  0 Thread: Shipping Furniture
Post: RE: Shipping Furniture
Kudzu Wrote: (04-15-2025, 11:27 AM) -- Someone might have a great idea that is cheaper.  But I would assume you are looking at LTL freight.  Meaning shipping it through a big shipping company. You...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking 13 585 04-17-2025, 10:48 AM
  0 Thread: convert 5/8 to 7/8 ok?
Post: RE: convert 5/8 to 7/8 ok?
Bob Vaughan Wrote: (04-10-2025, 09:44 PM) -- Sleeves sometimes work and other times they don't.  The biggest problem I've seen is that the pulley gets slightly out of round and thus a little out of b...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking Power Tools 3 389 04-11-2025, 07:34 AM
  0 Thread: Generator Questions
Post: RE: Generator Questions
There is a safe way to back feed power from a portable generator to your house via something like your dryer outlet. It’s not for long term and not for everything in the house. Only essentials. I’ve d...
 DogwoodTales Home Improvement 37 1,554 04-10-2025, 08:59 PM
  0 Thread: How do you hang tools on the wall?
Post: RE: How do you hang tools on the wall?
Gary G™ Wrote: (04-10-2025, 09:59 AM) -- Interesting you would say this. When I think of cleats, I don’t think of each individual tool. Rather, I think of a tool cabinet or container containing too...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking 20 1,484 04-10-2025, 01:13 PM
  0 Thread: convert 5/8 to 7/8 ok?
Post: convert 5/8 to 7/8 ok?
I know there are sleeve adaptors to convert a 5/8" motor shaft to 7/8", but are there any long term concerns with doing this? I'm shopping for a 1.5hp motor, single phase 230v, with a 7/8" shaft to...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking Power Tools 3 389 04-10-2025, 11:15 AM
  0 Thread: How do you hang tools on the wall?
Post: RE: How do you hang tools on the wall?
I’m in need of setting up such tool storage in my new shop which is borderline functional right now. I’m not decided yet on what I do for wall storage, but one thing for certain for me is that it wil...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking 20 1,484 04-10-2025, 08:29 AM
  0 Thread: Post Preservative
Post: RE: Post Preservative
crokett™ Wrote: (04-08-2025, 02:46 PM) -- Depending on how much work you want to do  if you want to be certain about never having to worry about the problem you could dig down around the each of the ...
 DogwoodTales Home Improvement 7 504 04-08-2025, 08:16 PM
  0 Thread: need new planer rubbers
Post: RE: need new planer rubbers
Stwood_ Wrote: (04-08-2025, 12:52 PM) -- Ummm, clearing throat. Foley Belsaw is still in business, and has parts listed for Sears branded planers. https://belsaw.com/ -- :laugh: yeah I was th...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking Power Tools 2 304 04-08-2025, 02:29 PM
  0 Thread: need new planer rubbers
Post: need new planer rubbers
Ref an older 12.5" Sears and Roebuck planer -  may actually be a Belsaw model I'm looking for references to parts supply for this thing.  The fist thing is new rubber for the driving wheels.  ...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking Power Tools 2 304 04-08-2025, 07:23 AM
  0 Thread: Cut notches in planer blades?
Post: RE: Cut notches in planer blades?
I have a Bill Pentz cyclone that I built many years ago with a Lesson 5HP motor and a 14" impeller. When I built it I used a 6" duct for the main run and reduced to 5" to the ts, chop saw, and bench-t...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking Power Tools 9 610 04-08-2025, 07:17 AM
  0 Thread: Cut notches in planer blades?
Post: RE: Cut notches in planer blades?
In my experience I do get a mix of smaller chips and long straw like chips on my 12” bench top planer. Sometimes the straws clog the dust port even though I have a good cyclone dust collector, but ...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking Power Tools 9 610 04-07-2025, 09:43 AM
  0 Thread: Cut notches in planer blades?
Post: Cut notches in planer blades?
Ok, stupid idea here maybe, but has anyone ever tried cutting notches in the planer blades to improve dust collection? The old planer I’m refinishing is a Sears and Roebuck, which I read somewhere ma...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking Power Tools 9 610 04-07-2025, 05:30 AM
  0 Thread: Post Preservative
Post: RE: Post Preservative
Hi Tim I’m in Dearborn County. Whereabouts are you? The previous owner did something similar to what you described to some of the posts but not all. idk Why. There’s no sagging anywhere. Maybe that’...
 DogwoodTales Home Improvement 7 504 04-06-2025, 03:31 PM
  0 Thread: Post Preservative
Post: RE: Post Preservative
They are for sure pressure treated and installed a good 30 years ago. The good thing is that they were probably treated with arsenic back then. There’s a monolithic slab inside the barn and a sidewalk...
 DogwoodTales Home Improvement 7 504 04-04-2025, 06:26 PM
  Wink Thread: Post Preservative
Post: Post Preservative
Do post preservatives (like the one linked here (https://www.amazon.com/Post-Proservative-Preservative-Re-Treat-Service/dp/B0BZWPV6SF)) actually work? I also saw a Wranglertar video some time ago tha...
 DogwoodTales Home Improvement 7 504 04-03-2025, 01:29 PM
  0 Thread: Don't ask me what I was doing @ 5:45 this morning in the shop???
Post: RE: Don't ask me what I was doing @ 5:45 this morn...
great times to do quiet work undisturbed.
 DogwoodTales Woodworking Power Tools 4 1,101 10-11-2024, 10:44 AM
  0 Thread: Delta 22-560 Planer pulley replacement
Post: Delta 22-560 Planer pulley replacement
My subject planer had an incident in which after years of reliable use an internal screw came loose and tore up the cutterhead pulley and the screw. I think I found one on eBay that will work, if the...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking Power Tools 0 422 10-11-2024, 10:41 AM
  0 Thread: Thoughts on a Morris Chair refurbishment
Post: RE: Thoughts on a Morris Chair refurbishment
I have a reclining morris chair that I don’t know how old it is but it’s well older than me and I’m 58. There were several failed joints on mine so I completely disassembled it and reassembled. Some d...
 DogwoodTales Woodworking 7 1,931 07-06-2024, 08:24 AM

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