Timber Drill

[stormking]

Found this beauty at an estate sale yesterday. It was in a pile of junk and covered with saw dust. Cleaned up pretty nice. Have a a few nice post drills and seen many more but first one of these I've ever seen in the wild.
Beam drill by https://www.flickr.com/photos/119819727@N06/, on Flickr

 

[Provincial]

Ready to build a post-and-beam barn!

Now you need the tool to go in your brace that makes the round pegs.

 

[RTM]

And the essential bits.

 

[The Cobbler]

I think I have a bit for post & beam drills

 

[stormking]

This one (miller falls) takes a standard 1/2" shank bit.

 

[RTM]

Good deal that it takes standard round. Someone I know has one that needs something odd, like a flat shank spot.

Millers Falls : 70th Anniversary : Catalog No. 42 : Millers Falls Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

260 p., illus., 17.6 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

 

[Dumber than lumber]

Thank God that you found that, and not me.
My wife would be even more wigged out if i dragged that home!

 

[Half-fast eddie]

Very nice. Do you think the brass screws and wood base are original? I think the base may be.

 

[stormking]

I replaced the screws, they had thru bolted it with gnarly bolts. The wood base is all original.