Planing charges

[Doug Wis]

   Hi  I bought a ph360 mainly for my own use, but word has got around the neighborhood and i've got requests to do planing. What do you guys charge?  Tried to add photos, but couldn't.

[MHineman]

  I think most charge by the hour, plus extra for damaged blades.  Sounds a lot like a sawmill when you have highly variable incoming wood.
  I've heard $30 to $50 per hour for you and the planer.  More for a larger capacity machine.  More yet to run the board on the jointer first.

[red oaks lumber]

i charge by the board foot. softwoods is .16/b.f. hardwoods is .25/b.f . thats  planing all 4 sides in one pass. i can run between 1,000 to 2,000 b.f. per hour. a smaller machine you might need to charge more per board foot. i would not recommend charging by the hour, doing this only opens the door for the argument " it shouldn't have taken that long".
doing custom planing you'll get to see first hand just how poorly wood gets sawn, when they bring it to you for planing it becomes your job to make every board look good no matter what it started at

[Al_Smith]

One local mill charges 25 cents planed both sides and straight lined one .

[scsmith42]

Most of my planing customers are s2s, and "onsey-twosey's" so to speak.  Basically the machine only runs for 5 - 10 minutes per customer, if that.

I charge .40 bd ft to S2S, with a $20.00 minimum to cover my time.

If I were doing 1K bd ft, then the price would be less.

[ATLGA]

   Hi  I bought a ph360 mainly for my own use, but word has got around the neighborhood and i've got requests to do planing. What do you guys charge?  Tried to add photos, but couldn't.

Doug, we are a little cautious with our 360. I plan on getting a separate planer to surface planks before running them through for flooring. Is yours doing it pretty easily. ??? ???

[Bandmill Bandit]

I dont have one yet but it is on my wish list.

Local company here has a PH 260 and has a 360 ordered.

He charges .50 cents a lineal foot up to 1x6, $100 minimum. Price goes up from there based on input dimension and he runs that planer pretty much full time.   

[Doug Wis]

       ATLGA;    I haven't run it alot yet and really haven't pushed it to find it's limits. Whitepine 2x6 doesn't bother it. Have run quite abit of v-joint paneling up to 10" wide in whitepine with no problems. White ash up to 8" a little tougher. Just have to slow the feed down abit. I had to take the safty  bumper bar on the infeed side off. Get a board a little thicker and it would bump that and shut the machine down. The extra thick didn't seem to bother the machine any. Got tired of having to restart when that happened.

[ATLGA]

Doug,
I went ahead and tried some yesterday. It worked ok. I did hit the bumper bar a bunch of times it was very frustrating. Its nice to be be able to do both sides at one time. I will prob use "old" knives for planning and "new" ones for flooring. That way if I hit a nail or something it wont matter as much.