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Offline Mario Turcot

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #30 on: August 30, 2018, 11:25 PM »
You are insecure and went berserk on the plywood? or you just want to be busy for the long weekend  [eek]
Mario

Offline tjbnwi

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #31 on: August 30, 2018, 11:34 PM »
You are insecure and went berserk on the plywood? or you just want to be busy for the long weekend  [eek]

I order 3 or 4 bunks at a time.  Normally last 3 to 4 weeks.

Solids (hard and soft maple) I buy in increments of 500 board feet, unless it happens to be a one off. Then I order what I need plus 15%.

Blum drawer slides I order by the pallet. The last two house used just under 300 drawer slide pairs. House we’re doing now will use 278 pairs of drawer slides.

Hinges and back plates 1000 at a time, edge banding by the mile (speaking of which I need to order 10 more rolls).

Finish is ordered 25-50 gallons per order.

Tom

Offline Mario Turcot

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #32 on: August 30, 2018, 11:40 PM »
wow  [scared]
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Offline waho6o9

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #33 on: August 31, 2018, 08:49 AM »
Impressive 

Offline awil66

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #34 on: August 31, 2018, 09:07 PM »
Was that a mic drop by Tom!?!?i think it was !

Offline IndyMike

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #35 on: September 01, 2018, 01:33 PM »
I had a dream that I was handling sheet goods - and that I had some cool multi-use system that not only handled sheet goods but helped me with like 8 other things........ I think it was too good to be true [i.e. I don't think it was physically actually possible]...

When you start dreaming about plywood :P.
Mike

Offline JimD

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #36 on: November 16, 2018, 07:58 PM »
My shop is too small to run full sheets through the table saw (14x24).  I like the track saw better anyway.  I haul the wood home in a small trailer which has short wooden sides.  Sometimes I just get a sheet on top of the sides and cut it there with the tracksaw.  Usually I tip it out of the trailer and carry it under my arm, clamped to my side, to the shop garage.  I put a 1 inch thick piece of foam on top of the outfeed/assembly table (3'x7') and lift the sheet on top.  The foam slides some but the table has locking casters and is loaded down with tools so it does not move.  I have to shift the foam a bit once the plywood is up but it works.  I'm 63 but can still handle full sheets of 3/4 OK, but I'm doing this as a hobby so a couple sheets in a weekend is about as much as I typically cut up. 

Slickest setup I've seen was a wooden lattice of 1x3s or 1x4s with folding legs so it can be setup as a cut table.  The guy who used it had health issues where he couldn't manage the sheets but he could slide them off his pickup onto the cut table.  From there, he finish cut with a track saw.  He never had to lift a whole sheet.  If it gets to where I need it, I might do this.  But so far, one lift onto the table is OK.  Carrying it 20 feet or so from the trailer to the shop garage isn't a problem.  I can back the trailer into the shop garage but usually I'd rather carry the plywood (I also have to pivot it 90 degrees while backing it and I'm not great at it). 

Offline BarneyD

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #37 on: November 16, 2018, 08:36 PM »
The older I get, the less I find myself willing to lift. I have a cutting table I made of 3/4" ply on folding legs (so I can easily store it). And my shop is fairly small so I prefer to do this outdoors where I have plenty of room.  I just slide the sheets out of the truck onto the cutting table and have a go at them with the tracksaw.  Sliding is way easier than lifting.

 
Barney

Offline jobsworth

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #38 on: December 27, 2018, 11:10 AM »
@BarneyD

Good idea Is that table one of those ones with the plastic top and the fold away legs?


Offline Michael Kellough

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #39 on: December 27, 2018, 01:15 PM »

“a cutting table I made of 3/4" ply on folding leg”

Offline BarneyD

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #40 on: December 27, 2018, 01:17 PM »
@jobsworth , Yes the legs were from one of those cheapie tables. But I threw the top away and made my own top from some plywood scraps. When it gets too chewed up I just make a new one.



Cheers
Barney

Offline jobsworth

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #41 on: December 28, 2018, 11:27 AM »
Good Idea. Im looking for something like that for my small shop. 

Im taking in all ideas....

Maybe use one of the hole pattern jigs and make a MFT style top for it, set it outside of the shop and use it as a cutting table,
ya got me thinking already :>D

Thanks

Offline TSO_Products

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #42 on: December 28, 2018, 03:15 PM »
PortaMate: for our needs to move full sheets of MDF, Melamine and Plywood in congested space from vertical storage to workbench height  - we bought one PortaMate for our own use when it first came out.
We used it again just before Christmas. For our needs it meets the requirement at a very affordable price and very affordable storage space needs.

We like the product so well,based on our experience with it over several years, that we intend to add it to the product line up we offer for sale in 2019.

Hans

Offline gnlman

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Re: Sheet good handling
« Reply #43 on: January 14, 2019, 01:12 PM »
I'll second the portamate. We have travel trailer in front of my shop in driveway now. I used to be able to back in shop move sheets pretty easy. Now I have about 40 feet to travel with sheet goods. I picked one of these up from amazon and moved 5 sheets of 3/4 melamine..I think they are about a 100 pounds. Took a sheet or two to get it down, but it works great. I only moved one sheet at a time as that is all I was comfortable with. There are parts of it that seem a little flimsy, it's not perfect, but given the price it works just fine. I see some folks have done a couple of improvements to it, I could see if there was a way to lock wheels it would help. If they ever come out with something a little more "Industrial" I'd have no problem paying a premium for one. I'm not using it as an infeed table, but just to get goods to sheet storage. Buy one it will save your back and shoulders....lol