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I should have done this years ago.

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.
Here is the baffle, you can also see weather stripping I applied to the top of the barrel.
I used caulking on all of the internal joints to make sure it was air tight. It works!!
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.

Great looking barrel.

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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Cool project, those look like big chips.

Are you connecting the vac to the tablesaw? planer?

I'm trying to decide on a shopvac setup at the moment.

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.

Cheers,
John