Harbor Freight Hercules Planer (Thickness Planer Review)
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- Harbor Freight Hercules Planer (Thickness Planer Review)
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For those sugging to move the head to the top position to close the back table. Nope, I tried it. Won't close when the dust port is attached.
I just got the Hercules 10 in table saw, and I love it. This is probably going to be one of those save up for it deals that I would love to get sometime in the future.
Great review, thank you.
I picked one of these Hercules Thickness Planers last weekend to replace my Bauer. I had a Friends and Family coupon that was 25% off, which brought the price down a hundred bucks. Deduct from that whatever I'll be able to get for the Bauer unit and I have the deal of the year.
I have had my Dewalt 735 Planer since March 2005 averaging 300 board feet per year with a mix of roughly 70% Ash, 20% Black Walnut and 10% Pine, Basswood, Red Oak, Grey Elm, Maple. Last year I decided to flip it over, pull out the bearings, clean them (didn't need it) add a little grease and reassemble. That's 18 years, it stays outside in the garage under ambient conditions. Of all the tools I own the Dewalt 735 was by far the best purchase that I've never regretted. I have replaced many sanders, drill presses, and benchtop bandsaws because they were not built well and every one of them had an issue right out of the box (i.e., chuck could never center drill bits always had a wobble, sanders would die, bandsaw wouldn't function as a band saw, you had to trick it to make a cut and too often you'd end up modifying a design due to the limitations of the equipment). Just so everyone knows, Dewalts don't have a problem with snipe, keep your work piece flat against the floor and snipe doesn't occur, if you let your work piece drop with the end moving up into the blade then snipe is what happens. Figured this out long ago. There you have it. Guess time will tell if Harbor Freight can stack up over time. Sometimes you get what you pay for. Hercules doesn't mean much if you have to buy 2 or 3 over 18 years. Just my 2 cents, thanks for the Video.
Been waiting for a good review on this! Thx for the tips on how to get it at best price! Nice job.
I bought this planer the week it came out (I think in August). It was the first one the store had sold. I got it for $300 with a 25% off coupon. I am very satisfied except that the dust collector needs to be removed to store it. I have a small shop. The screws are tool-less but a little bit hard to get started. They are in a bit of a black hole. So I made some little extensions out of some aluminum tube to make the process easier. I have ran probably 500 board feet through it and it is doing well. I would have like to get a DeWalt but at this price I could not go wrong.
Two comments: With a number of lunchbox planers, the out-feed table will fold up with the dust shoot on if the cutter head is raised to full height. I suspect that would work with the Hercules (assuming you've not already wound the cord around the cord-wrap).
I'm not in the market for a lunchbox planer, as I have the DeWalt 735X, which I purchased a few years back when it was packaged with the stand. I looked at the DeWalt 734, but liked the feature on the 735.
I bought this planner a few weeks ago. Of the boards I planned on my sled, there was just a small bit of snip. Just a few passes with my sander and it was gone. Love this planner!
I been waiting for this review. Thank you.
I'm glad to see this planer. I have one that I bought over 30 years ago from I really don't remember but it has the China name still on it. It has been great for me for this many years but I am thinking that I need to modernize some things. So many of these units are made in the same factory. One day they come down white, the next day they come down blue, etc... I had a belt break on me many years ago and the local wood working store only had the white brand. The belt was about $18.95 for one. I called Grizzly and bought 3 from them and paid only about half of the price for 1. The belt had the same factory marks and numbers on it as the one I had and the same marks on it as the white brand.
Very informative video, well done. I will be looking into that planer.
I've been waiting for this video since you teased this thing several weeks back. It's on my purchase list once it goes on sale for Inside Track members. Thanks and shine on!
I wish you had some wide oak to run through the planer. I frequently run 10-12” planks through my Makita and it does a great job. It would of been cool to see how strong the motor is under full load.
I appreciate your analysis on the planar good job
Something about all smaller planers... To me, they just sound 'angry' to my ears LOL. I have the 13" DeWalt 4-post , for about 14 years now, and LOVE it but IF I had to replace it, I'd 💯% consider this unit. Thanks 🙏 for the ALWAYS honest review... Shine on!
I have the Dewalt 734 and this reminds of that. If I didn't have the Dewalt I would definitely get the Hercules.
I'm going to have to look at this, I want to turn my old delta 12" planer into a jointer but I've been waiting to get a new planer before I start the conversion.
I'll probably pick this unit up in the future when I finally buy a planer. My expected use case is for cleaning up pallet wood for random projects. Currently, it is listed at 430 retail on HF, but with coupon it's 370.