trying plane
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A heavy trying plane would have been used in construction work on rural properties. It can be used for planing hard, difficult timbers.
Tools such as this would have been used in the construction of local homes, or rural outbuildings in early Orbost.. It is representative of an era before power tools.
A long, heavy wooden plane used in smoothing the edges of roughly planed wood.
