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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sometimewoodworker" data-source="post: 1526928" data-attributes="member: 5433">definitely a misunderstanding That is a planer (jointer) that is currently having its knives checked for hight.That is a planer (jointer) that is set correctly However both infeed tables and outfeed tables are adjustable in any quality machine.The outfeed table is usually set a hair under the knife hight, so that a check steel ruler or perfectly flat piece of wood will be moved a millimetre or 2 when you rotate the cutter head. Once adjusted it is not changed until the knives are changed. The infeed table is the one adjusted for cut hight, the lower it goes the greater the amount of material removed.It's usual that the boards making up pallets are rough sawn, the only time you would get thicknessed timber in a pallet is if the makers were supplying timber like that to their customers and using scraps to make pallets.Also the timber used in pallets is totally dependent on where the pallets originated. If they came from tropical or subtropical countries they are very likely to be hard wood, often species that are never commercially available. The reasons for that are that the cheapest available wood that's strong enough is used and softwood doesn't grow there, so the non commercially valuable wood is used, off cuts or trees that can't be sold into the local or export markets.</blockquote>

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