137 year old planer - and still going strong

Friday 4 Nov 2011

 
The photo in this story was sent in by a NZ reader. It’s of s a very old planer which was manufactured in the USA in 1874 – 137 years old. The steam engine running it is about the same vintage. Both belong to someone the reader met who had bought an old sawmill site close to Quirindi in N.S.W, Australia.

He had dug the planer out of the sawdust dump where it had been forgotten about for who knows how long and the steam engine he had rebuilt. Along with planer, it had come out of an old gold mine in the bush somewhere around our area. The reader says it produces after 137 years still a pretty decent finish.

Is this one of the oldest machines still working out there in the timber industry - or do you know of some that beat this for "years in the trade?"


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