Photo Index - Lane Manufacturing Co. - stationary bed planer

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Lane Manufacturing Co.
Montpelier, VT; Barre, VT

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Planer, Wood
Machine Size:	24"
Submitted By:	Patrick Haire

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	stationary bed planer
Date of Manufacturer:	1880's +
Serial Number:	none
Last Updated	11/3/2006 12:00:00 AM

Comments:

This is the one that got me hooked,25 years ago. Found it in a side yard here in Humboldt and gave a 100$ for it. It was a sorry beast. Two broken legs held together with forged splints along with all the common ailments found on used & abused planers. May have gone through a fire. The most frightful was the expanded iron mesh spot welded around the feed rollers as if it was intended to feed trees or telephone posts through it. Of course, the chip deflector was missing. On this mach. that meant the makers name was gone. Worked it over, ran it once with neighbors tractor then sold it for 100$. Twenty three years later it was deposited behind my shop! A mistress returned. The only clue I had to it's maker was etching in the 1881 Kirkwood machine catalog, and it wasn't clear enough to be sure. But.... the saints of research at owwm. provided the proof. It's shown in the paper archives, Lane Manufacturing Co. Planers, Matchers and Jointers. The most noteable part of planer is the three knife, triangular cutter head.

Photo 1:

Comments: cutter head - feed works
Source: self

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Comments: as she sits in bone yard
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Photo 3:

Comments: etching from catalog T.S. & A.J. Kirkwood Iron and Woodworing Machinery 1881
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