I am just curious. Do you find it better to use your Dust Collector with a barrel in between the hose and collector to pick up shavings from the floor or a Shop Vac.
Rich
Rich
Well, on a long turning day, I can crank out 100 gallons of shavings. Much easier to scoop up with a shovel and put into plastic bags than to suck up in the collector and empty the DC. The collector is good for very small stuff from dust to small chips from box turning, or I guess pens. Having a 2 stage system is great. Mostly anything that gets sucked up into the hose drops down into the can before it goes through the fan blades. I bent the blades on my old 1 hp DC many times before I got a centralized system with a cyclone. robo hippy
for me, larger piles of shaving get scooped up and put in a 40 gal trash container, when full, gets delivered to city landscapers for mulching around town In turn, they stop by monthly with truckload of wood, and my option to have any I want. Rest of shavings & dust gets picked up by my dust collector. Have tried contractors version shop vac and it just couldn't keep up, and if you use the bags, it gets expensive. I finally just quit using the bags, and dumped into garbage can. Running joke in neighborhood, my shop gets vacuumed more in 1 day, than most houses on block get vacuumed in a week Biggest problem with shop being in garage, if you don't keep up with the dust/shavings, it gets tracked all thru the house, meaning double the work
he loves letting neighbors know it's his yard and they better stay out
LOL Mark, he isn't like that
usually you don't know he's there, but when the "kids" next door poke their head over the wall
or there's strange noises, he's telling them he's watching them
Never any complaints, and yessir, all the neighbors do love him........
he's a nosy SOB, and captain of neighborhood watch