I finally got tired of the dust clogging up my filter.
The barrel is stave construction from some left over pine shelving I wanted to get rid of.
Stave construction barrel
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Here is the baffle, you can also see weather stripping I applied to the top of the barrel.
Thein Baffle
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I used caulking on all of the internal joints to make sure it was air tight. It works!!
Shavings in the Barrel
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We'll see over time if I spend less time cleaning the filter. Nasty Job! If nothing else I have experience creating a staved barrel. Not for the feint of heart.
There is a good explanation of the process on the old original "Ben's Mill" video that was part of the Odyssey Project. Ben makes a wooden livestock watering tank using stave construction. You can Google the video.
I love that video. Maybe one reason I like it so much is that my paternal great grandfather owned, fully rebuilt and operated a water powered grist mill and a sawmill in a village about 12 miles east of here during the late 1800's. He also ran a small, wire and picket, fence factory on the same property. He also used to make most of the caskets used there. I now own about all of that 17 acre property and do most of my wood cutting there. My father used to accuse me of having sawdust in my veins. I have always been a wood lover and at 75 I'm still planting trees. I'll keep planting as long as I can even though I will never see them mature. The planet cannot sustain if everybody can only think in terms of "take"... We have to pay back.
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Francis Robinson
I did not equip with Shopsmiths in spite of the setups but because of them.
1 1988 - Mark V 510 (bought new), 4 Poly vee 1 1/8th HP Mark V's, Mark VII, 1 Mark V Mini, 1 Frankensmith, 1 10-ER, 1 Mark V Push-me-Pull-me Drillpress, SS bandsaw, belt sander, jointer, jigsaw, shaper attach, mortising attach, TS-3650 Rigid tablesaw, RAS, 6" long bed jointer, Foley/Belsaw Planer/molder/ripsaw, 1" sander, oscillating spindle/belt sander, Scroll saw, Woodmizer sawmill
Cool way to make the container. I did the same with a 55gal drum and my HF dust collector. The Thein baffle system makes a huge difference in the dust collection.
The chips in that barrel are actually from a hand plane used to slightly round off the sharp corners from the the stave construction. Just regular vacuuming of the shop floor. No reason a Jointer with dust collection would not work as well.
Great little project! I love my Thein baffle and it captures a lot of stuff. At least for my high flow CFM, low pressure Dust collector, it must capture close to 99% of the dust before it ever reaches the filter.
I have always been a wood lover and at 75 I'm still planting trees. I'll keep planting as long as I can even though I will never see them mature. The planet cannot sustain if everybody can only think in terms of "take"... We have to pay back. 
