I solved the snipe problem from my Dewalt 735

[capncarl]

I’m tired of the snipe on my 2 Dewalt 735 planers. I parked them in my yard sale pile and cranked up a new Shop Fox 20” helical head planer.

[leehljp]

Nice piece of Machinery! I guess you can see the envy here!

[capncarl]

I’d like to add that snipe is not exclusively a Dewalt planer problem. I really do like the Dewalt 735 planer a lot, I just need a planer capable of a wider cut. Snipe seems to be a feature included in most all planers. It’s a problem that can be reduced to a less angering condition and the shorter the board is, the worst the snipe!

[Jim Frye]

Yes, snipe is indeed an issue with planers. Books and magazine articles devoted a lot of space to it. My Ryobi 13" was really good at right out of the box. Lots of tuning and a change of technique pretty much eliminated it. And it is amazing how much chips they produce.

[capncarl]

My project yesterday was to prep 3 slabs that I purchased from a local sawyer. I believe them to Sycamore, I’ve stored them in my woodshed for several years and it’s time to get them ready for some special Tiny Tables. I sat the planer up across the front of the shop rather than front to back as intended as a quick run rather than move anything around.

[capncarl]

I heard that someone once said that for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. In this case I don’t believe it was an equal reaction.
I connected one 4” dust collector hose to the new planer. The dust collector is a 5 hp ClearVue CV 1800 with a 35 gallon chip can under the cyclone and 2 large 3 ft tall Hepa filters. The chip can had very little dust in it when I started. After I planed these 3 slabs, removing no more material than necessary to get them flat I shut everything down and checked on the dust collector. OH CRAP! THE WHOLE THING WAS PACKED FULL! The 6” hose under the cyclone had backed up when the 35 gallon can was full and caused the cyclone to completely fill up. This caused the fan to fill up both filters next. I had no idea that planing those 3 boards would create this much oatmeal size chips! I emptied 3 35 gallon cans of chips out of the dust can, cyclone and filter and another large shop vacuum full off the floor. I’m hoping that it didn’t pack my filters full of oatmeal size chips inside the wire mesh.
I guess I’ll have to check the dust collector more often when planing large boards.

[Jim Frye]

pretty wood!

[dbhost]

Finding a way to work the wide drum sander in was hard enough for me. I can't imagine a huge planer like that. Beautiful piece of equipment for sure, Glad you have the space to use it!

[capncarl]

I try to keep the floorspace at the garage door, near the table saw clear. I’ve always have something that needs bringing in the air conditioned shop to work on, zero turn, lawn sweeper, pressure washer etc. When I was a bit younger I would just work whatever on the driveway in front of the shop, but it is in direct sunlight until after 5 pm and unbelievably hot. When I need to bring a car or truck in the shop I can roll the tablesaw and outfeed table into the adjoining wood room, although that is like putting together a puzzle and no woodworking is possible. Regardless, I don’t have mice in the shop because there is not enough room!

[twistsol]

That is one nice peice of equipment. I just recently replace my DW733 with a DW735 so I guess i'll just be wasting the last few inches of every board. Most of the time I can just put the snipe on the back of the drawer facing out so it is never seen.

[capncarl]

One bad habit I had was to cut most of my wood to close to desired length before I planed it. That’s a bo-bo because a short piece of wood is a snipe magnet, guaranteeing snipe on both ends right where you don’t want it. Trying to work snipe to the backside of the board creates another whole set of problems. Now I plane first then figure out where to cut off.