Greetings All, After a lot of thought, I finally ordered the aforementioned 8" jointer from Amazon. I've had 'lust in my heart' (Jimmy Carter) for one of these for a while, and since we are doing an addition to the casa (house), I could finally justify getting one. That damned Amazon sure makes it easy to buy big toys, especially with that EVIL 'One Click' option they have. I know I can turn it off, but I don't have the willpower. ;-)
Since I have had a crew of app 8 framing carpenters here for the last few days, I figured it would be a good time to arrange for the delivery and have them help me. But wouldn't you know it, on the scheduled day of delivery it rained and the crew didn't wasn't able to work. So here I am by myself trying to figure out what to do. In total I'm staring at 530 lbs of Chinese (Damn) steel in a couple of boxes next to my garage and imagining the hernia this will cost me. But lo' and behold I get a really cool driver who says between us we can do it ourselves. GREAT!!! If I had to refuse delivery and reschedule it would cost me $40 and the aggravation of another delivery wait. So we are able to slide the boxes of off the truck in wheel them into my garage. HOT DAMN!!!! I gave the guy $$$ to buy himself a good lunch for the help. He could have easily said that it was up to me to offload the boxes, and he would have been right.
The WWing gods are continuing to smile upon me..... So it's time to sacrifice more virgin wood. Mark L. Too bad I can't set it up for a few days while my basement is torn apart