Green Machine(s).....

[Jim Barrett]

My 3 General machines arrived this afternoon. I have been busy uncrating the 15" planer, 12" jointer and 10" table saw. The crating on these machines was unreal, needed a crow bar and big hammer to get the crates open. The GREEN color goes great with my new pvc flooring I installed this past week. The flooring is very cool, but very expensive....I have been vasilating for months on buying the flooring, at $3.45 sq foot I could have bought a lot of wood, or some more tools. Oh well I really like the way it turned out, really brightens the shop up. I will be busy this weekend adjusting and getting the machines set up. One big problem is getting the 1,000+ lb jointer off of the dual pallets....need some muscle, unfortunately there are no rollers on this baby....

Jim

[Tim Morton]

Has the voting closed for "gloat of the year"? If not i think you are seriously in the running!!! Very Nice. Maybe just paint green and white checkboards on the pallet and call it done?

[Paul B. Cresti]

Jim,
I agree this has got to be one of the best gloats I have seen! Congratualtions! Now do tell, is not the fit and finish, along with build quality, on the Canadian made General the best you have ever seen?

[Don Selke]

Congratulations:
What a dream shop, hope you send pictures when all the tools are ready to go.

[John Shuk]

Drool,drool,drool,drool!

[Jim Barrett]

Paul,

I am really blown away by the fit and finish of the machines so far. For grins I laid my 6' Starret straight edge across the table saw and it was dead on every which way I could think of. Can't wait to start buidling again, My list has grown considerably.

Thanks all,

Jim

Jim,
I agree this has got to be one of the best gloats I have seen! Congratualtions! Now do tell, is not the fit and finish, along with build quality, on the Canadian made General the best you have ever seen?

[John Miliunas]

Dang it, Jim! Some serious gloat material there! I'll bet your list involves a bit more than just a couple picture frames! Congrats and have fun with the new toyls!

[Scott Parks]

Jim, I see a huge negative to this story.......




Cleaning off all the cosmoline!

(Oh, wait, after reviewing those fine machines again, I don't see any cosmoline?)



Nice haul! You'll enjoy many years of sawdust from those machines

[Bart Leetch]

Jim

I only live about 30 miles away maybe we could get together sometime.

Freeland isn't far from Oak Harbor.

[Jim Barrett]

Hey Bart,

Sure I'll give you a shout when I have the machines running and you can come by and give em a test drive

Jim

[Jim Barrett]

Scott,
So far the cosmoline has not been bad at all, nothing like my MM 16 bandsaw, now that had some serious cosmoline.
Jim

[Scott Parks]

Scott,
So far the cosmoline has not been bad at all, nothing like my MM 16 bandsaw, now that had some serious cosmoline.
Jim

Aggh, choke... cough... cough... MM16! You're killing me here! (green with envy)...

Can I move in? To your garage, that is! Is there heat? The pvc soft enough to sleep on?....

[Mark Singer]

I can't "up-gloat" that! No way! You should add my General 24" sanding dream drum sander though

[Gary Sutherland]

WOW!!!

I'd really enjoy seeing some overall pics of your shop when it's all set up.

Gary

[Jim Barrett]

Sorry Scott,
BTW I have excellent heat in the garage, stays 55 degrees during the winter, I tweak the heat to bring it up to 60ish. The pvc is not bad, much better than the cold grey, stained, cracked concrete

Actually I sold my MM 300 Smart and replaced with the General machines. I was able to recoop all of the cost of my 300 Smart (strong Euro) so I was able to purchase all of the General machines and the majority of the pvc flooring with the money from the 300 Smart. Delivery was very reasonable, General delivered for free to a local freight company and I paid for the delivery from there, couple hundred dollars including a lift gate truck.
Jim