CH3 Multi-Head Planer

The world’s most easy-to-use planer/moulder

When you look at the planer, you will immediately understand how to use it. You monitor the planing process through the big vision panel, and under the cover all features are easy to access and pedagogically placed and marked. You quickly and easily install cutting tools for both dimension planing and moulding.

A perfect result at once

The machine is tuned from the factory in Härnösand, which means that you are up and running in no time. Width and thickness are adjusted by sturdy cranks and clear scales. Unlike previous planers, the vertical position of the side cutters is precisely adjusted from the factory. You get a perfect result at once.

Choose from hundreds of standard profiles or design your own

In Logosol’s tool catalogue there are hundreds of different standard profiles to choose from. You can also order your own design or reproduce old profiles, which can be of great value if you, for instance, want to renovate an old house.

This is a machine we look forward to delivering to many customers. It is affordable, extremely easy to use and you can quickly get started with producing your own mouldings and panelling for your building projects.

Sturdy, surface-treated machine tables

We have replaced the traditional cast-iron tables with thick, laser-cut and precision-machined steel plate that is coated to never rust. They are even heavier and more stable than previous tables. Furthermore, both the cutter heads and the shafts of the side cutters are rustproof to allow the planer to be used in unheated premises and even outdoors for shorter periods.

Adjustable speed

You can choose if the machine should feed the workpiece with a speed of 3 m/min or 6 m/min. To get the finest surface when moulding, you choose the lower speed. In cases where the surface finish is less important, when producing construction timber for instance, the higher speed is preferable.

Sturdy, adjustable feed rollers

The feed rollers are fully 40 mm in diameter and have specially designed grooves for powerful feeding and to prevent the workpiece from slipping. Depending on the sort of wood and the width of the workpiece, you should adjust the pressure of the rollers accordingly. With the CH3 this is easier than with our previous planers, since the adjusting bolts are easily accessible from inside of the machine.

We recommend!

It is usually easier to plane with a three-sided planer than a four-sided planer, and it takes marginally longer. If you, for example, want to produce tongue and groove with one unprocessed side using the CH3, you place the unprocessed side facing down and set the machine to the desired width and thickness for the finished product. Then you just get started. With a four-sided planer, you have to adjust the in-feed table by using metal plates to avoid any take-off by the bottom cutter.

Tip! Plane the width and thickness of the material to get the right dimensions before moulding it.

• All timber gets the same dimensions, and you can run it through the machine using the same settings. It takes about 15 minutes for 100 linear metres of timber, and this is time well spent.
• Groove the back at the same time! At the same time as you are dimension planing, you can make a groove on the back of the material when making panelling, for instance (on a panel the heartwood should be facing outwards).
• Save timber! When the timber is dimension planed, you can see if a board has the wrong dimensions and save it for another project. However, if you had profiled it first, it would probably have been unusable.
• Easy to install knives! Planing knives are always installed in the top horizontal cutter of the machine. When changing from moulding to dimension planing, you remove any moulding knives in the horizontal cutter and replace the moulding knives in the side cutters with planing knives.”
• When dimension planing, the take-off is about 1-8 mm, and if you want to machine four sides, you need to leave about 1 mm for the second run.
• If you dimension plane the timber, it gets smooth and runs more exactly against the machine table and the fence when you are running it a second time for profiling. This usually makes the profiling more accurate.