Wooden Canal Locks Video with a Big Mortising Machine

[Andrew Joiner]

I just saw "How Do They Do It" Season 11, Episode 20 on TV. They did a story on the Stanley Ferry Workshop. Here's a video that shows their moving bed mortiser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5wtd36NHc

The "How Do They Do It" story showed them planing huge timbers on a beautiful moving bed planer. The bed is as long as the stock and travels past the planer head to flatten and straighten rough timbers.



This is a moving bed planer at another canal lock workshop:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I0-rEICen5w/Tz17aPZiVhI/AAAAAAAAHhY/XnBWwHqU-Ug/s400/Planer+Thicknesser.jpg

[Larry Edgerton]

Man, those guys are fast. ;)

Thanks

[Earl McLain]

Watched that episode last night--very enjoyable!!
earl

[John Conklin]

Very interesting. Gotta love the amount of free content on Youtube.

[Ole Anderson]

I saw that! Busy in the kitchen at the time, but I did manage to sneak out and hit the record button on my DVR. Cool. small locks only, please.