Thickness Planers: Which One Should You Get?

Which of these thickness planers would you buy for your woodworking?Or would you buy something else? I bought a new 13" Dewalt DW735 planer to help thickness stock and to replace my Ridgid R433113" wood lunchbox planer. In this video, I'm putting them head-to-head to see where they are similar and where they differ and which one you might like for your woodworking shop. In my small shop, space is at a premium, but I love my wood planer!

If you prefer the lunchbox-style planer as an alternative to the Ridgid planer, I would suggest the Dewalt budget planer linked below.

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00:00 Introduction
00:47 Unboxing the DW735 planer
01:07 Planer table assembly
01:31 Planer testing
02:46 Comparing Ridgid to Dewalt