On 8/7/2015 11:10 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Leon wrote:
Smeg wrote:
You guys are going to love this. I bought the Delta 305 back 8-10
years ago at Crappy Tire.
I purchased it to rerun My square D white pine 10"x6" logs, some are
3 ft and some are 20 ft.
Yes I know I need a industrial planner but on My budget it isn't
happening. Now the dilemma, It feeds Ok but fails to pull the log
through the machine.
I have to assist it which becomes very labour intensive.
Is there any way to have the rollers modified with a substance to
grab the log better?
Even with multiple light passes I still have to push.
It is not laboring the cutter head but certainly doesn't pull these
logs through.
I don't care @ $199. cost if I burn this thing out, as long as it
does all My logs board feet
with several knives I will still be ahead of the game.
Any suggestions or assistance would be appreciated.

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Think about this, "you" are strong enough to lift the work and help
push it through and that is labor intensive for you. Your dinky
planer is not.
If it cannot grip tight enough to feed the work "and" cut, you are
asking too much. These type planers will marginally cut 10" wide on
stock that is 3/4" thick let alone have the power to feed something 8
times heavier.

Amen! You want to move big pidces through your planer, either buy a bigger
planer or build an infeed and out feed for it. Is there really anything
outside of what the manual of this planer describes, that would justify this
post?


And while I am saying the following statement with my tongue firmly
planted in my cheek....

It would probably be easier on the long pieces to suspend them, mount
the planer on one end, and let the planer walk its way along the length
of the timber.