Not Dave's Mill

[Mike]

I am in the process of remodeling the new (old) farmhouse and that calls for a lot of work I don't necessarily enjoy. Part of that is replacing the interior walls with Knotty Pine tongue and groove paneling. When I bought the planks, I planned to sand them using hand held random orbit sanders. It didn't take long for me to figure out that sanding over 7,000 linear feet of boards was going to be too labor intensive and take way too long to complete. So, I bought a drum sander with automatic feed to help out.

I built an in-feed and out-feed table using materials I had on hand. Once everything was adjusted just right I stood at the out-feed end and did touch-up and final sanding with a random orbit sander.

I haven't had time to install my overhead dust collection system so I just connected directly to the dust collector.