Complete your collection of planes with this..

[LocalOak]

I can't fit it into my workshop but anyone else fancy the ultimate jointer :shock: Giant Plane

 

[pam niedermayer]

Coopers used those long planes sole up, mounted to something or other.

Pam

 

[LocalOak]

Thanks Pam, and my guess the something or other to which they are mounted is pretty substantial? And are they used to get the ultimate straight edge or is there something else I'm missing?

toby

 

[mr]

I think that's a two man shipwrights plane.

Cheers Mike

 

[Digit]

They weren't used to get a straight edge at all LO. They were used to make the staves for large barrels and kegs. You pulled the timber along them to taper each end.
Most of the shipwright ones I've seen weren't that large, probably because the timber was too bl---y heavy to push!
Some large wooden planes had dowels sticking out on both sides, two ropes and an apprentice were attached for pulling!

Roy.

 

[Smudger]

There's an illustration of such a plane in use (c1539) in Planecraft (Fig 17)