There are currently 2 industrial belt sanders being auctioned over in White Settlement. They might be a bit of overkill, just thought I’d throw it out there.
Those will be perfect to sand the bark off bigs logs collected from alleys:)
so you’re saying a 50hp belt sander is larger than what’s needed.
Lol. The “small one” Timesaver has 2 50hp motors. 250 amps of service at 208, that’s 4x our largest electrical load. The 53” is 250 amps at 460. That’s roughly twice the power of the “small one”
Both would make a fine cutting board out of a tree. 
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in one pass…
That would be pretty cool to plane and sand in one machine. It probably has modes to plane, or sand or plane and sand. Do we not have enough power to the building to run this? We could even skip wiring and using the planer head, its still a nicer used wide belt sander than anything we have looked at so far.
The timesaver is a planner sander, you can’t run endgrain cutting board through that machine. The other is a 4 head wide belt… not sure anyone at DMS can afford the paper… but both nice machines
Why cant you sand end grain? I havent seen any of these wide belt sanders that didnt let you operate the sanding heads independently.
Sand, yes, plane, no. Not designed to run independently. Planer comes as part of the process.
Brother Bob says that the ability to sand and plane independently varies with vintage.
He also said that machines of this size are often used in two-shift production and can have “a lot of miles” and he would do a detailed inspection before bidding. If it goes cheap there may be a good reason.
As far as I know you can’t turn off the planning part…
I talked to timesavers, the planer head is set 1/32 above the sanding head so if you dont turn it on it doesnt hit the part. This machine was made in 1997 based on the serial number. Cosmetically its in way better shape than the others we have looked at. A manual costs $99.
For glued up panels and epoxy, the planer would save time and sanding belts.
We could never afford a new wide belt sander that would survive, and used ones seem too difficult to move on, we are probably stuck with drum sanders and lots of sanding passes:-(
Slab mill is for the people who won’t take the time to learn how to prep wood for gluing up into panels.
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If you have your act together all you need is the domino and the rotex.
Inlayed cutting boards can’t go in then… 
Ooooooahhhh