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Grizzly G0490 - Day 6

Sunday, 23 November 2008 17:00 |

What happened to day 4 & 5? Well, that was Saturday and Sunday and nothing really happened related to this project. So we skip ahead to day 6.

Not much today except anticipation for tomorrow’s delivery and a little prep.

I bought the new subpanel, the 10-gauge 4 wire, outlets and breakers. They’re just waiting to get installed. I’m going to try and get a little documentation together for that piece too but that is for another day.

Tomorrow morning bright and early I’ll drop by the rental place to get the pallet jack, and then I’ll sit on my porch waiting for UPS.

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Grizzly G0490 - Day 3

Thursday, 20 November 2008 17:00 |

Ok, so I’m reporting day 3 a little late. Got busy with some other stuff. I’ll still set the date of the post to the date that matches the details.

Day 3 I got an email from Grizzly with the tracking number. Good stuff. A couple hours later I got a call from UPS Freight wanting to schedule a drop off time. I wasn’t expecting this so soon. The UPS rep said we could schedule a drop off as early as Monday. Monday! I just placed the order Wednesday. To me that seems really good for something that weighs 600 lbs.

Grizzly G0490 - Day 1

Tuesday, 18 November 2008 17:00 |

I just placed an order for a the Grizzly G0490 not more than 5 minutes ago. Phewww. Finally ordered my first jointer. I’m pretty excited. All the reviews I’ve read have been very favorable. I will be doing a video review of the tool once it is delivered and setup. I’m also doing a review of the Grizzly ordering process and customer service. I’ve heard very good things about their customer service.

Check back for more on this topic in the next few days.

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Grizzly G0490 - Day 2

Wednesday, 19 November 2008 17:00 |

I got an email from Grizzly today asking whether I wanted regular freight shipping or whether I wanted to pay a little more for lift-gate service. I thought I pretty much knew what lift-gate service was having been a delivery driver at one point several years ago but I decided to give Grizzly a call as instructed in my email to get a first hand experience with their customer service.

New Tools

Monday, 17 November 2008 17:00 |

So I’m finally getting a jointer and man am I excited. I’ve been saving up for an 8″ Grizzly for sometime now and I just ran the numbers and I’ve finally got it. I should be ordering it either tomorrow or Wednesday. I’m planning on getting the Grizzly G0490. 8×76 5/16″ Parallelogram beds, 3hp, built-in mobile base, 4 knife cutterhead. Should be sweet.