Before Christmas I bought some 8/4 hard maple and some 8/4 Purple Heart. They were both about 6 inches wide and 12 feet long. I cut them in half and then cut them down to 18 inch lengths and made a few cutting boards for family and sold 3. It took me about 6 hours to Run it all on the jointer and planer. (part of that 6 hours was going to Lowes and buying new Knives and installing them ) But it took me a full 6 hours to do it. Today I did the rest of the 8/4 boards Cutting them into 18 inch lengths again some were 21. I ran them on the Jointer and ran them in the new planer and it took not quit 2 hours. I couldnt belive how much faster the Delta planer was.