ripping strips

I had bought some cedar boards ( i thinks its cedar) from the potters house farm. random widths and lengths and was not clear but didn't have too many knots.
We tried to rip them into 5/16+ thick strips and having made a spacer for two thin kerf saw blades figured we could get two strips from every pass down the table saw. A fingerboard is used to hold the stock tight to the fence.


Even at two strips a pass seemed to take forever.