For those of you that use a planer with a shelix cutter head, Byrd or other, does it make a lot of small chips that are easily cleared away?
I ask because with my current planer with a lot of woods, maybe most, when the knife makes its chip, it is one long piece. However wide the board is, that's how long the chip is. That's a problem. It tends to clog the dust collection hood on the planer, along the hose and the entry point to the dust collector.
Buying a new machine is a lot of money to spend without any assurance that a shelix head will make small easy to clear chips.
So, anything you can tell me would be welcome.