Photo Index - Frank H. Clement - three foot jointer

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Frank H. Clement
Rochester, NY

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Jointer
Machine Size:	20"
Submitted By:	Daniel Warner

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	three foot jointer
Date of Manufacturer:	post 1886
Serial Number:
Last Updated	7/21/2010 2:53:50 PM

Comments:

This machine had been listed on eBay without pictures. I communicated with the seller and took the risk. On July 2nd 2005 I took a day trip to Huntington, WV and picked this thing up. The seller said it came out of a sawmill that had been in business since the Civil War. that suggests that maybe this machine had been there a while. The seller had bought it 10 years ago when that mill closed. He had never hooked it up. The color is not original (thank God!). it has had a round cutter head with tapered roller bearings fitted to it. We took this machine apart to load it since he had no equipment to load it. Once back at my shop, we began to put it together. Since the crane was apart, the forklift was running rough, and the tractor was at home for mowing grass, we had the fun job of assembling and moving this beast with a hoist, pallet jack and floor jack. Before we were done we had this thing on both ends, both sides, and had destroyed 2 pallets. It has a rockwell 7.5 HP 3 Phase motor.

Update 7/21/10

This machine must have been through a fire. The tables had to be milled down 1/8 in and the cutter head is not balanced well.

A short video of this in action can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eie5ZiYbL9M

Photo 1:

Comments: Ugly Color, Cutter head is on the floor
Source: Daniel Warner, Photographer

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Photo 2:

Comments: some would mistake this for the Yorktown
Source: Daniel Warner, Photographer

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Photo 3:

Comments: F.H. tag with patent dates '83 '84 '86
Source: Daniel Warner, Photographer

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