When it comes to wood, I am much better off cutting it into firewood than doing projects with it but there are times when I have to put on the handcuffs go to the 10" Chrapsmen radial arm or the 10 inch Ryobi table saw the 12" Pro-shop miter saw or the Shopsmith lathe or one of the routers and hack away at a bunch of the future firewood to make this or that. Straight/flat lumber is a must in most cases to achieve any quality or longevity.
A while back a neighbor brought over 10 8 ft 2x4s he had just bought about 2 hours before at the Box store in Abilene, said they broke open a bundle to get him some straight boards, by the time he arrived it my place all of them had a bow and a twist not bad but still not straight. Bad enough though that I knew ripping them was only going to make them worse. I swapped his boards out with some of mine I have had stacked in layers with furring strips between them. I have had my boards stacked that way for several years in a dark place took his boards laid them side by side flat sided, wedged them together in the rack then placed about 10 layers above them took us a couple hours to get my stack back how I liked it then we ripped the 10 boards I had swapped to him and he went away a very happy neighbor I told him transport and proper storage of any lumber new or old needs some attention. I have several sheets of plywood that I am slowly getting the warp out of might take another 6 months