Well, THAT's nice!

[ShopDog]

I just did fairly well myself, I think. I went to visit my old neighbor across the road, back at the old place, the ol' logger I logged with a couple years back. While we were talkin', he mentioned that he had just placed an ad in the local "It's Classified" (the area's buy & sell bible) for an 8" jointer.

Sumgun, methot, so I asked for a little more detail. Y'see, I knew about that jointer, and I knew it had been used for exactly one project ever. He (the logger) had built his own log house, and to do it he had flattened the tops & bottoms of his logs so they'd nestle tightly together & not need any chinking. So how to do it? Since the logs were a little more than 8" in diameter, he had run each one across an 8" jointer until they were flat enough to nestle.

THAT 8" jointer, in fact.

Now, that was some 25 years ago. It's been sitting in his garage since that time.

It's a veritable monster, it is, for an 8" jointer. It's got a 5-1/2-foot bedway, and it's built exceptionally heavy.

What color is it? It's GREEN.

Surprised me - I didn't think Grizzly (!!!!) had been selling such things that long ago, but there was the Grizzly name emblazoned upon it, verily.

So how much'd he be asking for it, queries I. Three double-ought bills would buy it, he said, and be enough to arrange for delivery from his garage to my shop in a dumpbed trailer. INTO my shop, even, and into whatsomever place I designated as that jointer's new place of ensconcement.

Three of those bills just kinda' floated outta' my wallet & appeared on his table, beckoning and calling his name out. Ya, so he smiled. He's getting too old to be using machines like that these days, and he knows it's going to a good home where it'll be cleaned a little (the old vinegar-and-steel-wool dustoff) and pressed back into service. Slightly lighter service than before, to be sure, but honest flatwork service nonetheless.

Now - anybody want a ShopSmith Mark V for $175? He's got that up for sale, too. Shipping very far away would be nasty, I'm sure, but that's pretty cheap for a Mark V.

Pics of the jointer when (1) it lands here at home, and (2) it's fully cleaned up & ready to rock & roll.

Life is good
when you have
one leg in the air

~SD~

[deathwish2]

Congrats on the jointer . . . that would be old enough to be one of the machines Grizzly built their good reputation on. ;)

As to the ShopSmith . . . that is WAY too cheap. :o

Going rate with no 'extras', just the basic 5 functions is aroud $500 if all is working OK . . . do yourself a favor and put it on eBay with local pickup required . . . unless you are near Northeast Massachusetts . . . in which case, I'll buy it for $175, put it on eBay, make $300, and then go looking for someone selling an 8" jointer on the cheap. }>

[Limey]

Check the style...methinks we have a pseudotim under a pseudonym...An alto ego..a sheep in wolf's clothing..

Not many people I know who worked with an old logger and centralises their bi-line...What's the scoop Timmer.

:) :) :)

[Sawduster]

Now you mention it, his other posts seem to back your contention. :)

[deathwish2]

As does his email address. }>

[Limey]

Drats and darn..didn't think of that I just caught a flavor of the literary style..... he's two timing us under an altered ego.
:)

[ImNo]

And since 2003 too. At bugger.

[HotFlash]

Uh-oh - Tim, you been outed. So what's the story? MPD? :P

Erin


Give me success or its eternal pursuit, and I'll take the pursuit.

[TDHofstetter]

Wait for it...

It gots ta' do with the other project. Anybody starting to enjoy the show yet?

Wait for it...

...and not a word. :)

-- Tim --

Crow ain't so bad
Once you get the hang of
the recipe

:)

[cabinetman]

TIM,

You've got to change those socks more often. If ya throw 'em up and they stick to the ceiling, it's time!

Now, get your ladder and get 'em all down!
:)
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"I'M NEVER WRONG - BUT I'M NOT ALWAYS RIGHT"