There is a little bit of a story to this deal. The last two winters a young, age 10, boy from our small town has personally called me and asked if he could ride his snowmobile on some of our property. I thought if he had it together enough and had the decency enough to ask I would let him. A week ago his dad called and said he had some wood that he had to get rid of and was wondering if I was interested. He said he had some walnut, oak and maple. He said I had been nice to his son, had found out that I did a lot of woodwork and thought I might like to have the wood. They had sold their house, he had moved the wood 4 times and had not touched it in that amount of time and it had to go, he also wondered if I was interested in any tools. So I went to look at the wood and there was probably 2 pickup loads of nice stuff, walnut, oak and a little maple. He said that he and his dad had collected it over the years, the dad had died and he did not have time to work with it. I asked him what he wanted for it and he said just come and get it whenever it was convenient. So then we went to look at the tools. Same story, he didnt have time to use them, was tired of moving them and make an offer. We arrived at the price of $1000 and he hauled all it to my garage in his cargo trailer. I got a Delta 22-660 13 in planer, an older 6x48 delta sander, a 6 in Delta jointer with cast iron stand, a newer Delta P-20 scroll saw, a real nice older craftsman drill press, a dust collector that had barely been used, an older delta school type lathe with tools, a 1" x 42 in Delta belt sander, a couple of tubs of misc, including 2 dado sets, mortise chisels, 4 full rolls of hook and loop sandpaper for a timesaver sander and the 2 pickup loads of lumber. I will sell some of my own stuff, 2 bench top planers and a 6x48 belt sander, and a mini lathe and replace it with this. I still cant believe that I got a deal like this. I guess everyone is happy though and I told the guy I would make something for him out of the walnut. The question I have is that the belt sander has a blower fastened to it that will function as a dust collector, I just have to find a bag to put on it to catch the dust. If I remember right the blower says "Hurricane" on it, not Delta. Has any one ever seen something like this? It is pictured in the last photo.
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