A2A - Journey of a Wooden Boat - Episode 101: Pairing an 1800s Thicknesser and a Chrysler Flathead 6

Sometimes, pairing vintage machines, is just cool! When we got the 27 inch thicknesser from Ganon and Benjamin a couple months ago, we knew we were going to have to figure out how to pair it with a bomber power source. In the end, everything came together beautifully!

We couldn’t use the three phase 10 horsepower motor they had on it as we don’t have three phase here at the boat yard and it would have been very challenging for us to even get that hooked up here. So we immediately started thinking about what else we could use.

An electric motor was not really going to cut it because we really couldn’t get enough juice to something big enough. We had the option of running it off the PTO from the tractor but that would have been extremely impractical. So, we decided to go to an engine!

With luck, we ended up getting in contact with someone that had this old Chrysler Flathead 6 that was used to run a pine shingle making operation back in the day. It had been sitting out for a long time but we were pretty sure we could get Grampa and Joe to get her running again. And that they did!

Now we have an 1800s era 27 inch thicknesser run by a 1947 Chrysler Flathead 6 that also runs an industrial size fan for chip collection. The whole package in one! We are so excited to put this combo to use soon during our upcoming planking party.

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Acorn to Arabella is a boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve and Alix started as amateur boat builders building their own 38′ wooden boat in their backyard: designer William Atkin’s Ingrid with a Stormy Petrel’s gaff rig. These videos follow the journey from tree felling, to lumber milling, to lofting, to the lead keel pour and beyond—sharing details of the woodworking, carpentry, metal smithing, tool building, and tool maintenance that wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY project will continue well past launch, when they will travel and learn to cruise aboard the boat that they’ve built. Just kidding about all that, this channel is about a Siberian Laika named Akiva.

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