Being able to cut circles saves a lot of roughing time. I use a 1/2 inch wide blade, which will cut circles down to about 6 inch diameter. They cost a bit more, but have M42 hss teeth which will cut through nails without ruining them. Having the proper blade is as important as having the proper saw.
I moved and don't have the chainsaw chop saw set up again so use the big bandsaw a lot more, at present. It has a 4.5 hp Baldor motor and waltzes through anything I can put on it with a 1 1/4 wide blade with teeth at 3/4 inch apart. I have the Laguna 16HD which saves a lot of time in prepping blanks since it cuts 16 inches high, and I seldom turn bigger than 14 inch. Look up my video "Chainsaw Chopsaw', which does a good job, but I need to 'new and improve' it. Look up my 'Bandsaw Dust Ports do not Suck' video.If you can cut your slabs pretty parallel, then all you really need the bandsaw to do is to cut circles.
They work fine for cabinet shop work where all the wood is dry, but not for wet wood. The dust collection on every bandsaw I have seen is terrible, well for bowl blank prep anyway. This means that if you are going to prep bowl blanks on them, you have to be adept at handling big pieces of wood, or you have to build an infeed and outfeed table. For sure, the biggest drawback for all bandsaws is that they have very small tables.
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