AndyR
ArboristSite Operative
I'm pretty worked up!
I drove about 5.5 hours today roundtrip to pick up these two tools from a very nice man outside of Chicago. It's a Grizzly G0550 open stand 15" planer and a G1018HW 8" x 65" bed jointer. They were about three years old and never used (never setup actually). The price was great $350.00 for the jointer and $400.00 for the planer.
I'm wondering if any of you have any experience with the Grizzly brand of carbide spherical cutterhead as opposed to the Byrd brand that they also carry? Looks to me like the cutter heads on the Grizzly are arranged in a spiral but are still all facing parallel to the face, where on the byrd the individual cutters face the angle of the "helix" which to my way of thinking would result in a more shearing cut...
http://www.grizzly.com/products/searchresults.aspx?q=byrd
I may upgrade the jointer first before I set it up. I hear good things about these.
Now I have to leave these alone for a few weeks and finish my side job—gonna be hard.
I drove about 5.5 hours today roundtrip to pick up these two tools from a very nice man outside of Chicago. It's a Grizzly G0550 open stand 15" planer and a G1018HW 8" x 65" bed jointer. They were about three years old and never used (never setup actually). The price was great $350.00 for the jointer and $400.00 for the planer.
I'm wondering if any of you have any experience with the Grizzly brand of carbide spherical cutterhead as opposed to the Byrd brand that they also carry? Looks to me like the cutter heads on the Grizzly are arranged in a spiral but are still all facing parallel to the face, where on the byrd the individual cutters face the angle of the "helix" which to my way of thinking would result in a more shearing cut...
http://www.grizzly.com/products/searchresults.aspx?q=byrd
I may upgrade the jointer first before I set it up. I hear good things about these.
Now I have to leave these alone for a few weeks and finish my side job—gonna be hard.
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