Triton planer thicknesser £250 ish any good?

[Glenbirnie]

Hi,
Im after a planer thicknesser for cleaning up old pitch pine which is how timber used to be and is quite hard although not technically a hardwood in a restoration project. Its really going to be a few lengths of skirting here and there and producing stock from flooring etc, a domestic project for my home not trade use. I do a lot of work myself and have decent tools but I am a bit stuck with this as I cant justify a £600 machine, my top budget is about £300.

I normally buy Makita, Hitachi, Dewalt, where does Triton rank?

Any other thicknessers youd recomend for my budget.

Cheers

 

[leeco]

I bought a second hand dewalt thicknesser on ebay for about £250 and bought a pair of new blades for about £40.

 

[r896neo]

If you can get away with it just buy a thicknesser, you can get decent ones for 250.

A planer thicknesser is a whole different beast as you need quality tables and fences to produce timber of any quality and squareness. To get a planer thicknesser that will work at all properly you would need to spend the 600 you mentioned.