davec
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Picked up the SS at the terminal yesterday. Went down to the land to grab a few test pieces too. I got it all assembled last night but it was too late to start it up, so tonight I tried it out. They are fast!
Here's pics of the unload and unpack. Durn thing is heavy. I'm not a fan of how they packed it. It was well protected, but you had to basically disassemble half of it and then put it back together. The part that got me was "use some sort of lifting device capable of holding 1000 lbs to lift it off the pallet to get the production table off of it from shipping, so you can put it back on the right way" (more or less). Ummm let's see...ummmm no, this isn't an industrial shop, and I don't have a gantry crane handy.... Jeez guys. Maybe you could set it up so it didn't require that? OK, if you have 2 guys, you can lift it up on sawhorses, but if you don't you will struggle. My mushed finger says I didn't have help...but I got it up on sawhorses eventually.
And then tonight I used it to turn this:
Into this, in about 20 minutes or so as a first run:
Overall, I like it. I think they could really improve the design and reduce the cost a bunch with by putting some engineering effort into it, but that's just the engineer in me that can't stop.
Sunday it will get started on the 25-30 cords we have already pulled out....
Here's pics of the unload and unpack. Durn thing is heavy. I'm not a fan of how they packed it. It was well protected, but you had to basically disassemble half of it and then put it back together. The part that got me was "use some sort of lifting device capable of holding 1000 lbs to lift it off the pallet to get the production table off of it from shipping, so you can put it back on the right way" (more or less). Ummm let's see...ummmm no, this isn't an industrial shop, and I don't have a gantry crane handy.... Jeez guys. Maybe you could set it up so it didn't require that? OK, if you have 2 guys, you can lift it up on sawhorses, but if you don't you will struggle. My mushed finger says I didn't have help...but I got it up on sawhorses eventually.
And then tonight I used it to turn this:
Into this, in about 20 minutes or so as a first run:
Overall, I like it. I think they could really improve the design and reduce the cost a bunch with by putting some engineering effort into it, but that's just the engineer in me that can't stop.
Sunday it will get started on the 25-30 cords we have already pulled out....
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