Issues trying to hand plane an old door

[Xman]

Me and my bro want to shave down a wood door , its has swollen because of humidity) and my smoothing plane keeps catching and tearing chunks out near the bottom corner. I've tried planing at an angle but still getting the tearout thing. Is this just annoying grain we need to work around with a card scraper? or am I missing something obvious with my technique? though the rest of the door edge is coming out beautiful but this one section is driving me nuts

 

[ZedX]

You're planing against the grain in that corner from lil residue knowledge of this, flip your direction and come at it from the opposite end, or plane toward the middle from both sides

 

[s3s@m3_]

Me and my bro want to shave down a wood door , its has swollen because of humidity) and my smoothing plane keeps catching and tearing chunks out near the bottom corner. I've tried planing at an angle but still getting the tearout thing. Is this just annoying grain we need to work around with a card scraper? or am I missing something obvious with my technique? though the rest of the door edge is coming out beautiful but this one section is driving me nuts

no worries, man. the rest of the door is coming out well, so your technique is probably fine, but that corner has grain running in two directions.
instead of planing straight down the edge, try planing across the corner at a high skew angle. This can effectively reduce the cutting angle and slice the wood fibres instead of lifting them. If that still tears, switch to a sanding block or a Card Scraper for that small section.

 

[Handym4n]

Me and my bro want to shave down a wood door , its has swollen because of humidity) and my smoothing plane keeps catching and tearing chunks out near the bottom corner. I've tried planing at an angle but still getting the tearout thing. Is this just annoying grain we need to work around with a card scraper? or am I missing something obvious with my technique? though the rest of the door edge is coming out beautiful but this one section is driving me nuts

have you try scoring the wood with a utility knife, using a card scraper/razor blade for the final pass, setting your plane's mouth super tight, sharpening your iron to a high angle back bevel (50-55°) for a digging cut, or even skewing the plane more aggressively, but a scraper is usually the best fix for stubborn spots