Turning fence palings into dressed timber–part 1

Turning fence palings into dressed timber with the ALDI WorkZone Planer Thicknesser.

Dressed pine timber is expensive - very expensive. Wherever possible I use cheap fence palings for my projects and… if needed I dress my own timber.

The machine has two configurations - planer and thicknesser. We are setup for the latter here to smooth the paling faces.

This is the exit side, the machine grips and pulls the timber through as it is planed.



This is the entry side, after initial adjustment of the yellow thicknesser knob the timber is fed in here - onto the table




This is how the dust extractor is setup for thicknesser mode. For planer mode this is removed and inserted into the machine at the other end. More on this to come.



This is the plumbing setup to interface the big extractor outlet to the workshop vac hose - lol



Ozito Workshop Vac



Stay tuned... I'll be back to plane the edges.

Note: Using my old Samsung Galaxy phone to take these photos.