This could also be titled "Trying to bite off more than I can chew"
I have several hundred feet of half log siding leftover from our
combined log home/log garage accomodations and now that I have a
thickness planer I started to make these boards into 6 inch wide 3/4
red pine boards to trim out between the rafters where they pass over
the log walls. My finished peices need to be 9 or 12 inches tall. In
my haste I began to resaw the 6 foot boards and then pass them through
the planer (jointing the backside if necessary).
Well, my lack of expertise in resawing created a lot of uneven boards
so then I thought about crosscutting the siding to 20 or 26 inches
(twice the required length plus waste) and then resawing and planing.
That approach worked very well as I could handle the shorter length on
the bandsaw and I just "assembly lined" the shorter boards through the
planer. My wasted wood was reduced to alsmost nothing and I had all of
my pieces in the near finished size. Still, I'll have to create a sled
or table to allow me to resaw longer boards because I don't see how I
could slide anything oversized across the current saw table. (It's a
14inch Delta)
Anyway, I had a lot of fun making mass producing those short boards.

Marc