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KeeponDragon

Super User
5000LB WILSON LATHE

Very large, very old lathe, comes with 3 jaw chuck and tail stock, is missing the carriage and gap for the bed, would make a good farm lathe for drilling holes or doing wood working, don't low ball this is basically what it's worth as scrap Located in Red deer, can load on a trailer weights 5000lb

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6.5 Fan

Ultra Member
Premium Member
Well the ad does say wood work, stick a large tree trunk in that baby and start making wood chips. :)
 

Dan Dubeau

Ultra Member
Would make a hell of a bowl lathe. Chop the entire bed off and sell for scrap, then make a swinging tool rest bolted to the floor. The end of the bed, could make a nice base for a welding/fab table too.....Think not what it "was", but what it "could" be. It's working years as a metal lathe are over. It's either the ladle, or another life serving a different purpose.

Sometimes it's a good thing I don't have a giant shop with unlimited room......
 

KeeponDragon

Super User
Tim Dyck on youtube (blacksmith), he use an old russian lathe to make bowls...
I have one of his beeswax candle cups...wife loves it
 
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