This is the key - I've been searching for a way to effectively use a small electric planer for wider stock and you explain and show it brilliantly, many thanks. Right, time to sharpen the chainsaw!

We recently lumbered a 36" maple, a 36" white ash, and a 32" pecan. After drying, we tried planing with a Rigid (Home Depot) 13" planer with 2 HSS knives kzfaq.infoUgkxIzvvTi3_Qc8JnVdYYRJCvuoDC4QjTzeL . This job was clearly too much for that machine. The pecan was particularly difficult, due to heavy mineral deposits, and a sharp pair of HSS knives would be consumed by a mere 3 boards. We were also having lots of problems from chip bruising, due to poor dust collection. The shavings came off like straw and jammed in the 4" hose.We bought the DW735 simply to be able to run carbide blades, which worked brilliantly for the pecan. However, we found it to be a much, MUCH nicer machine. It was far more rigid than the "Rigid" planer, and far more accurate as well. But what I liked most about it was the dust feed. This machine has its own blower, which shreds the "straw" like shavings as they come off the cutting head and helps boost the shavings into the dust collection system. No more clogs! It's also nicely sealed so that the internals stay quite clean. This is just a well tempered machine that's a delight to use. It literally cut the labor in half. Just another example of getting what you pay for.

Man! This is perfect ! I was struggling with this problem. The angled planing with a reference from the back is brilliant

this is the video I was looking for. I did a poor job cutting slabs with a chainsaw and bought an electric plainer.

It was way too hard to find a video showing how a power hand planer is used to flatten a large surface. I'm not sure why. I just wanted an example of the technique, and I had to google it and eventually found this video. I couldn't find anything like this just searching youtube directly with obvious stuff like "electric hand plane flatten large board". Thanks for the video.

Finally a video that shows this THANK you MAN

Thank you for the instruction! It was very simply presented.

nice timber! those slabs look gorgeous. next time you're at the flattening stage using the electric hand planer, you'll have an easier time if you have a straight edge to use as a reference by placing it directly on the work piece. some reference lines on the endgrain will help too.

This is exactly what I’ve been doing also. So many slabs now. I would like to get more mobile so I can slab at different locations alone easier when I find permission on a specific tree. Keep it up stay safe. So much good wood goes to mulch or the landfill it’s depressing. Save the wood ! The state just clear cuts cherry walnut oak like it’s garbage ahhhhhh the mountains of logs headed for the mulcher kills me.

I bought a DeWalt planer just to do the railings on my decks. Make sure the nails or screws are buried into the wood before planing!

Great like from România 🤝🔔👍

Thanks for the video

Gorgeous slabs! Hickory or Walnut?

Can you use one of these to smooth old rough timber?

can i use electric planer on slightly fresh cut wood?

It’s a planer not a “jointer,” but great video …

Ok, I don't feel bad about my freehand milling technique, I just gotta plane it down

I destroyed a 4m long board trying to do this, now it is full of lines of various heights.

That's an electric hand planer. A jointer squares up two edges with each other.

So wrong in so many ways.you have no clue what your doing