papa's got a new toy all right so we got the rigid 13 inch thickness planer uh i picked this up a few
months ago so it's not really new but it's new for you uh viewers out there and uh this is not
gonna be a product review however uh this is gonna be an unboxing of this uh rigid thickness planer
uh so i'm gonna open it up real quick and we're going to do a quick little talk
all right so ridgid i love their tools i've had uh their drills uh in the past and they've worked
tremendously if i've actually had 10 years out of their impact drivers and their drills
and i totally love their products so i did some research before picking up
this planer and ended up going with the ridgid i also looked at the milwaukee however it was a
12 inch planer rather than a 13 and uh every inch counts i'm gonna go through some stats about this
planer and then i'm gonna talk about why you need one when you live on a homestead and um what i got
this one for the projects that i'll be using it on uh so i'm just basically gonna read off this box
right off the bat it's got a three blade cutter head chip and dust removal system on it as well
a secure cut cartridge lock so it locks your head into place extension for your in-feed and out feed
the motor is obviously 120 volts at 115 amps or sorry 115 amps come on electrician uh 15 amps
motor uh i would have loved to see this at a 220 but i understand why uh they make them at
120 it'd be hard for uh your standard homeowner to have access to a two uh 20 or 240 volt uh
receptacle but the reason i would prefer a 220 240 volt receptacle is that way then your current
is a little bit less as well but it is what it is steel top with guides um so yeah that's one thing
i didn't notice with this thing it is built very solid there are no plastic parts on this thing
and uh i'm telling you it probably weighs about uh 75 80 pounds uh got a depth adjustment handle
which i got to find the handle but it goes on to here obviously and i can get it from uh
uh down to a 1 8 1 16 of an inch um of a precision cut so that's how the variable i
can make on this thing uh soft touch controls um that really doesn't apply to me because i got uh
pretty aggressive mitts so soft controls i'll be uh probably making them hard controls later on
a good depth gauge and then a repeat cut depth stop those are the pros on this thing
it uh does 9000 rpm with uh no load and it does 96 cuts per inch
uh feed rate is 23.5 feet per minute and uh the capacity is 13 inches wide and six in one h eight
excuse me that six and one eighth inch of a thickness here it is it's uh 73 pounds so i
was off by two um so now why did i pick this up um on a homestead uh you're gonna need some sort
of tools now let me backtrack it was a choice between this or a welder uh the welder is gonna
be the next thing i'm gonna need on the homestead however i felt that this would be a better option
for the time being because for next year we have a lot of projects that are going to require
the use of a planer and i have access to a welder if i need it so what does a planer do uh so what
happens is when i go to mill some wood on the mill outside it will leave the wood rough as can be
basically you're going to have splinters on it and it'll be really rough and coarse and what
this does and it also won't be as even when you cut it depending on your sawmill mine's a chainsaw
sawmill so it won't be as accurate as if you had a bandsaw sawmill so it all depend on that so once i
have my slab of wood that i need to plane uh it'll be rough and what i'll do is i'll set it to the
thickness that i want on this planer and it'll i'll feed the piece of wood through and it'll
make it all nice and even and smooth like you would have in home depot or lowe's or any of those
lumber yards you'll have a nice piece of wood with the exact thickness ready to use for your projects
uh so the the projects where we have coming up that i'm going to need this for right off
the bat is if you saw in our previous videos there probably about a month two months ago
we finished the upstairs office area studio and workout room uh we finished everything but the
window jams the window casings the window frames uh the baseboards and uh little little odds and
ends like that and uh being that i need to make those myself i will be needing a planer to do that
to get them nice and smooth so that i can paint them and give it a nice finished look as well
uh the next project i'm gonna have is our crosswalk over to our property
uh the planks are uh getting weathered and uh beat down pretty good so i'm gonna have to uh remake my
own planks for the crosswalk that way it's uh not deteriorating and causing any hazards for myself
or kimberly or the dogs for that matter uh and and the third uh project and the biggest one that i
have for next year is gonna be the sauna build uh i will be using wood around uh the pro from
the property to build the sauna however i will be also uh needing to make flat walls so that i can
put in um insulation in there and as well as floor planks to give us a nice level surface to walk on
uh so i will be needing that or this tool for this as well so uh a planer i would recommend to anyone
that is looking to get into home setting because when you are you are homesteading uh you will be
responsible for making your own material your own products um and i know what was about a year ago
the price of wood was astronomical we actually had a couple neighbors up here that
uh had their relatives call up here and got them to go around making their own two by fours two
by sixes two by eights it's pretty hysterical so um you never know down the road if those uh
prices of lumber ever skyrocket again uh this thing could actually pay off uh pay itself off
so it is one good thing to have and uh they aren't cheap this one was i believe seven eight
hundred dollars somewhere in that ballpark and that's canadian dollars for uh our u.s viewers
down there i'm not sure what the exchange rate is on that but i'm sure you'll figure it out
so uh i just wanted to do a quick little uh post uh video on this thing and you'll see it in action
in uh in the summer so uh stay tuned for that one see on the next one