I recently finished my own homemade wood scaffolding thanks to Matthias' great video...(It works great too!!) THX FOR SHARING THIS...(IT IS A LIFE & MONEY SAVOR FOR SURE.)
Good so far and happy to see that I am not the only one who has mishaps in the shop from time to time... Glad you weren't hurt and I guess nothing was extremely damaged.
Man youuuuuu are awesome dude!!!!! I have not seen anyone as creative as you - I'm so proud of you because you set a great example of not being afraid to try something that seems impossible. In the Bible Proverbs 22:29 fits you perfectly. Thanks so much for sharing.
Heck I got to 13 seconds and started counting your fingers. Pushing the waste with your left hand like that is a lottery. Table saw has large percentage of amputation accidents, and of those most are from ripping. But in a world of metal scaffolding great to see your good approach :)
I'm looking forward to how this looks finished. I think the Pantorouter needs to go on my to-do list after seeing how easily you made all of those joints.
Ah, 3:04 made me laugh. I like your style of making videos, good pace and efficiency as well as making sure to tell us what you're doing. Great job and keep it up!
Nice job on the scaffold. If you ever get a pinch when ripping down a 2x 4 etc, try putting a shim or wedge near the end it helps to keep the tension from pinching the blade. I use this trick when using a circular saw. Roland
since i have been learning all the stuff about woodworking its great to see vids of this. a few days ago i had the same kinda kickback with the lumber i was cutting. and i was wondering why it was doing so. thx for teaching me :D
When you were pounding in the second "ladder," I died laughing. Because of the speed you increased it to, it looked like an old silent movie slapstick routine, like "Three Stooges" or something
Lots of comments here about "storing the scaffold" when the job's done. I imagine it will be jigs, shop furniture and Adirondacks within hours of the project being complete. Once again, you confirmed yourself as RU-vid woodworker nonpareil. Thanks.
VERY cool project - and just in time for a new To-Do -- something (rat, opossum, skunk?) has moved into the ceiling space in an old house owned by a friend. We don't have a ladder that will reach up there and I'm not willing to pile short ladders on top of an old table - maybe scaffolds are just the ticket! Interesting project, for sure. Thanks for sharing.
Speaking of internal stresses, I had a similar experience with a straight, 8-foot long piece of 4/4 black walnut. After ripping it in half, it popped apart, snapped my splitter off my homemade zero-tolerance throat plate and kicked back. When I picked up the piece, it was now a beautiful... curve. The other half was still straight. "The best laid plans of mice and men..."
Hello, I watched your video on your mortise machine and really liked it, so much I knew I wanted to make one. I was building my first timber frame building and thought I could make my machine big enough to make everything I needed to get my building going faster than using big slickers and lots of hammering. Well, I made it and it worked so well a friend of mine is letting me build him a barn in his back yard. Some of my beams are 12x12 and the machine made quick work of them. Thanks and keep making your videos.
That shop is almost big enough for an entire second floor!!! Hmm, I see a bike and a fridge in the background, the space is filling up fast. I still can't quite visualize how this project is going to look, so I'll just wait for Part#2. One thing is for sure, with this shop you now have a place for all those extra tools you're building or acquiring: two pantorouters, two quick-set tenon jigs, three table saws, and I've lost count of all your bandsaws. If nothing else, this will give you a place to move stuff to clear space in your main basement workshop. :-) To the persons scoffing at a wooden scaffold... what does wood have to do with it? What is your house made of? If you engineer it right, I have ever confidence that a wooden scaffold would be just as rigid as metal.
cringing at 5:40, though you undoubtedly know what you're doing more so that I ever would haha, kickbacks didnt bother me till I saw one in slow motion, where it shows how little control you have over how close your hands get to the blade. Then one time my shop teacher had a kickback where a ≈5 cm splinter put a hole through his thick flannel shirt - it punctured it and just stayed there. The shirt was unbuttoned so it was only into a piece of fabric that was hanging, but still was amazing nevertheless.
Y'a pas de doute ,tu travailles bien en tabernacle ,moin efrenter aussi ,plaisant de voire le mondes Sur You tube faire du progres pas juste dans leurs ouvrage mais aussi sur la maniere de ce presenter :)
protect your hearing buddy--i enjoy all your videos--your amasing craftman--a valuable assett in this world---i always use wood scaffolds in my job--more versatile and much less risk of theft from job sites.. but your scary to watch when u built this scaffold--
I would like to see you make one much smaller -- 8 feet high -- 2feet wide -- where you can change the height of the working area -- this is a great idea -- thanks for the video
Nice scaffold so far. I would have cut a cross notch in the tenons and wedged it along with the glue and go for the belt and suspenders route. After all that going to be quite a fall if it comes part.
You are a great carpenter. Your work is amazing. Waching you working alone make's me sad. It would be much better if you have somenoe to help you ( to hold something in place) or to just talk say joke's keep you company anyway.
Good effort. Timber must be very cheap in ca as it would not be worth buying wood for a project like that in the uk. Over here you'd better off getting hold of some second hand scaffolding.
To me its pretty obvius that you enjoy to work alone. That is the kind of Project for I would certenly ask for help of one of my mates or even my wife. Manipulate such long pices of wood like that is very dificult. But your expression says to me that you having a good time. In your position, I will spent all that time saying really bad words. I still have to lern to be like that. Cool video, I'll be wait for the part 2.
Ok, I'm convinced. A pantarouter is an absolute necessity. I will be building one. Question on the mortises: what do you think about doing a stub mortise in this application? The only real gain I see from it would be that it'd be less mess (particularly glue dripped on the floor), but I'd like to hear your thoughts on why you would choose one over the other in this application.
I'm wondering if you are under building this thing, I can snap a 2"x 2" with my hands, and wood isn't really great at tension loads you're going to be putting the 2X2"s under, as cross braces, should the center of your 14' ladders decide they need to flex outward. This is your only project so far that I'm not confident in, I'm not as talented as you are at knowing the limits of materials however. Please don't think I'm criticizing, I'm just voicing my thoughts. If I were to do this, I would have made the ladders by laminating the rungs inside 2 2x4's with sections of 2x4 as spacers, using carriage bolts to fasten it in place. I'd also use full sized 2x4's with carrage bolts as well for the cross braces. I image that would be a lot more weight than you want to deal with on your own though. I wouldn't use screws on something like this, as I've seen them snap on a gabled 10X16 bug tent frame I made out of 2x4. The shear loads on the screws from just rain and wind was too much for construction screws. it was snapping them 2 at a time.
The tension in wood can be caused from natural defects, or the seasoning of the wood (drying out process), not much you can do except for what matthias did.
I want to build the pantorouter, but will it be precise enough? I want my work to be good to at least 50 micron and I am also worried about "squareness" and alignment between the template, router mount and table. I just don't see it being precise enough using ply or any other wood for that matter. I prefer all parts be milled out of cast iron or at least aluminium to eliminate slop and provide a really flat and stable working surface. Really wish I had a vertical turret CNC milling machine right about now.
Hi, i just have seen more than ten videos in a raw because i think all are awesome. By the way, can you tell me if you have made a large table saw to rip a 1/4 plywood sheet with no help, i made one long time ago but i know you can do it better with many more improvements. What can you tell me?
