Quote Originally Posted by Erich Weidner View Post
I shall report back on this thread in a few projects time if I regret the sale.
As I moved to the city from my youth countryside, I only kept a planner and a big 30ish cm circular saw. I don’t like using them, but I have become pretty good with them, processing cubic meters of raw stock over the years, from building to fine furniture making. If you were to follow the same route, choose big over small.
Rip cutting a 10cm by 3m oak board by hand is many orders of magnitude more work.
Re-saving is not ideal, as I can only reasonably manage 25cm wide boards, at most. And I can get thinner than 2cm.

Stock prep with handheld power tools is probably 10 to 15% of the work. I guess a band saw would bring it to 5-10%.