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Handwork in Wood

CHAPTER II
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47.] The boards are now graded as to quality into No.

1, No.

2, etc., Fig.
46, and run out of the mill, to be stacked up in piles, Fig.47.

Big timbers go directly from the saw on the rolls to the back end of the mill, where the first end is trimmed by a butting-saw or cut-off-saw which swings, Fig.48.The timber is then shoved along on dead rolls and the last end trimmed by the butting-saw to a definite length as specified, and shoved out.
One of the most remarkable features of the modern mill is its speed.
From the time the log appears till the last piece of it goes racing out of the mill, hardly more than a minute may have elapsed.
[Illustration: Fig.48.

Cut-off-Saw.


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