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Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Planer, Wood
Machine Size:
Submitted By:	Brian Kachadurian

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Unknown 4-Side Planer
Date of Manufacturer:	Est. Late 1800s
Serial Number:
Last Updated	8/11/2022 7:10:17 AM

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Original post 7/5/2012:
I do not own this machine.
It resides outside a working blacksmith shop in Glen Haven Michigan, photographed July 2011.
I could not find any manufacturer's identification on this planer.

8/11/2022 updated information from a historian at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park Service:
Unable to find any manufacturer's markings on this machine.
The planer came out of the sawmill, which was located on Little Glen Lake, near the Dune Climb.
That mill was built c1866 by C.C. Mcarty, later acquired by D.H. Day c1890 and operated until 1923.
There was a narrow gauge rail that ran from the mill to Glen Haven, at first horses pulled carts loaded with cordwood & lumber, then in 1907 Day purchased a locomotive to move the lumber - that was used until it's closure.

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Source: Nikon CoolPix, existing light

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Comments: Tubular steam boiler that once ran this planer. Lower surface cutter head pulley just above crank handle.
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Comments: Edge cutter heads, in back is the top surface cutter head
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Comments: Depth scale
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