As you can imagine we have a lot of conference table size lumber here in the Amazon but we had no way to clean them up as we dont have a planer more then 24" wide.
We welded up this beast and with 24 roller bearings and a homemade cutter head made from helical head planer chips on a normal router and we can now do a slab 5 foot wide and 13 feet long.
In the photo Wally is doing a small log slice for practice but we are ready to try a table top as soon as we find something worth while.
The stripes on the log sloces are an optical illusion as they just sand off easily. I assume it is from the 2 inch dia cutting head cutting in both directions and the fibers bend both ways.