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i,ve actually seen that happen at a sawmill i once worked at but that was when somebody emptied a a bin of bandsaw dust onto a big outdoor fire. BAWOOM (that was the noise) shouldve seen him run, very funny.

your right, i can cope with dust but not on my lovely vintage engine

i did grow to quite like the smell, the same happened when i lived near a pig farm, i recently bought some pearl glue beads that had, i think, silicone added and it smells horrible, good stuff though, added flexibility to the glue, supposed to be used in leatherwork bookbinding, but ive had good succes with wood veneering. 5kg from ebay, so i doubt i'll be getting any of the nice smelling stuff. as to wanting to eat it, thats just wrong. i diagnose that you are pregnant. coal for desert?

i've had a couple of bigger dust extractors but always found that i stopped using them, because of the bag changing hassle and mess, and not very good manouverability on uneven workshop floors, and just used a broom, one like yours looks ideal and just sweep up after the thicknesser.

hi there, i would partition the workshop off, also i have a powercap rechargeable respirator, with visor, that filters the air and then dust pan and brush the big bits. and throw them in the canal, no not really, im sure ive seen log makers for compressing newspaper into bricks that can be put on the woodburner, i dont see why shavings couldnt be used. i prefer using hand tools to machinery, alot of my work at the moment is traditional veneering and needs little or no machinery, just pearl glue warming on the woodburner, or coffee percolator if its the summer.

hi Sue, ideally i would rent the house out, that would mean changing my mortgage provider, and borrowing some more. my mortgage provider doesnt allow me to rent my house out. annoyingly. im guessing £40,000 for my ideal boat £30,000 for mortgage, house value about £120,000, rent house out £600ppm that would cover mortgage, maybe a little left over to live minimally on with the little i earn woodwhittling. sounds nice but will it work out as planned? house gets wrecked, cant rent it out, nobody wants my services i have a £70,000 loan i cant pay for and nobody wants to hire a boat with a bandsaw in the living room. worry worry worry, i was hoping to minimalise hassles. but it is hard to let go of it, i like my house and may want to return when my back finally gives out. i dont know

yes i agree, my 10"kity planer is nice and quiet til you show it a piece of wood, then it makes a shrill that most would find intollerable, i personally prefer it to my ex girlfriends nagging. both of which can be quietened, one with really sharp blades and the other you can unplug. joke

sounds ideal. so if you get lonely you can travel to company, rather than escape it when you want solitude. i'm gathering theres not really much point having a quiet generator to run a planer thicknesser? they seem to be expensive

excellent, cheers for replying, so it is possible, i want to keep things small so a butty, although a nice idea, might be a bit too much for me to handle single handed, great to know that you managed those 3 main tools. does making a noise cause problems or is it possible to drive somewhere deserted?

hi, im very new to all of this and do not have a narrowboat yet. this forum is great and i've gathered loads of info so far. im a furniture designer and maker, woodturner, carver etc. i love the thought of living on and making wooden items on a narrowboat. i was wondering if it was possibe to run, occasionally, noisy, woodworking machines with motors up to 3hp. would that require a huge generator? im contemplating selling my house (renting out seems too much hassle) and getting a new 57' traditional sailaway and fitting a boatmans cabin, a nice engine and a generator in an engine room, bathroom, kitchen, workshop at the front with a bit bigger outsidy bit than the normal. i need an adventure. any thoughts? Phil