"Peeling feeling" net trend, in tools - videos

[Toolmaker51]

This is half of why I watch Adam Booth's or Steve Summers' shaper episodes, it is hypnotic watching them. This looks like a large planer, though.

Yep, fair-sized...for a garage.
TINY compared to "Niles Heavy Duty Planer Mill. Combines single point [or form tools] tooling on one ram and conventional 50 NM taper milling, 15-480 rpm on second ram, both mounted on cross rail, and 2 side heads attached at either column. The table measurements; 15' wide x 36' long, with 14' under the rail! A planer should reach 100%+ of it's table real estate; meaning the footprint was occupied by not less than 72' of guideways." But I only got to admire it, stationary after shutdown of Long Beach (CA) Naval Shipyard, awaiting it's fate. I'm positive it was scrapped.
In my very first shop, primarily doing mold work, ran everything except horizontal Lucas boring mill. Instead, one pet was a 8' x 40' Gray planer. Planers are great, especially press brake dies, tapered spars, molds like garage door seals, flatting weldments...
Mainly Joseph Whitworth is owed for his breakthroughs in mechanics to get planers effective. That's different than efficient, planing is still kind of special.