Playing in the Big Boy Shop

[Ted Calver]

My son in law, Tim does some CNC programming for a friend who owns what has to be a dream shop. When we needed some rough cut lumber prepped I tagged along and got to play with some of the toys. I don't have the specs on the tools, but they were pretty cool. See for yourself:
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[Ted Calver]

The big CNC in the background was busy cutting a small part for a complex oak ceiling in a Frank Loyd Wright style house being built on the property. It was pretty amazing to see it change bits on the fly. The owner is trying to sell it because he wants a 5 axis machine!

 

[Ryan Mooney]

Yep.. Martin (aircraft carrier sized), Onrud, HUGE powermatic bandsaw that is some top quality kit right there

Interesting he has a big old bag shaker on the dust, that probably works pretty well with that massive sander and CNC though.. and with the size of the pipe to the CNC there can't be much lack of pickup

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

I'd need a bigger garage, for sure. That's a heck of a setup!

Yep.. Martin (aircraft carrier sized), Onrud, HUGE powermatic bandsaw that is some top quality kit right there ...

I'm not seeing a bandsaw. I am, however, seeing how tiny Ted's hand is on that 12" planer bed.

 

[Bill Arnold]

Reminds me of my time working in a couple of commercial shops!

 

[Ryan Mooney]

I'm not seeing a bandsaw. I am, however, seeing how tiny Ted's hand is on that 12" planer bed.

Glimpse of the bandsaw is right at the end of this video:

 

[Ted Calver]

...Interesting he has a big old bag shaker on the dust, that probably works pretty well with that massive sander and CNC though.. and with the size of the pipe to the CNC there can't be much lack of pickup

I wondered about that dust system. Hadn't seen anything like it...and the bags were shaking. I asked Tim about it and he said there's some sort of electrostatic discharge system that helps keep the dust out of the bags. The owner gives them a wack before he starts the system each day and all the dust falls into the collection bags.

The owner also added a laser positioning system to the Onsrud. It's mounted on the ceiling and projects the piece being worked on onto the spoil board surface.
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That thing has a vacuum pump so big it pulls enough vacuum through the MDF spoil board to hold the work piece in position without drilling any holes!

 

[Darren Wright]

I saw that vacuum pump, it was a monster. That laser system is down right cool!

 

[Leo Voisine]

I worked with a C.R. Onsrud dual 25hp spindle twin table machine 2007 for 6 months. Quite a beast of a machine. I did some advanced parametric programming for it. Weird but it only had 6 work offsets available, but with parametrics and Reneshaw probing I was able to create unlimited intelligent work positioning.