sawmilling
Cutting logs mechanically
Sawmilling is the business or process of cutting logs into lumber at a sawmill.
The term covers both the industry and the work itself: His family has been in sawmilling for three generations.
Related to sawmill, the facility where timber is processed into boards and planks.
Mill's main cutting saw
- resawCut lumber lengthwise thinner
- edgerTool for neat borders
- crosscutPerpendicular timber cut
- kerfIncision from a blade
sawblade · debarker · bucking · slabbing · flitch · cant · sawteeth · sawpit
Cut wood sections
- lumberSawn wood for building
- boardsPlanks or governing bodies
- planksFlat construction lumber pieces
- beamsRays or supports
hardwood · softwood · pine · oak · cedar · spruce · fir · rough-cut
Wood retail facility
- forestryManaging wooded land
- loggingRecording system events
- pulpSoft wet mass
- woodchipsShredded timber fragments
biomass · plywood · particleboard · MDF · chipboard · veneer · export · commodity
Substance improving food taste
- planingRemoving surface material
- surfacingComing to the surface
- gradingAssigning marks to work
- stackingPlacing items vertically
air-drying · shrinkage · warping · checking · stickering · curing · finishing · dimensioning
headrig
Mill's main cutting saw
kerf · sawblade · debarker · bucking · slabbing · flitch · cant · sawteeth · sawpit · planking
logs
Cut wood sections
beams · hardwood · softwood · pine · oak · cedar · spruce · fir · rough-cut · cants
lumberyard
Wood retail facility
woodchips · biomass · plywood · particleboard · MDF · chipboard · veneer · export · commodity · wholesale
seasoning
Substance improving food taste
stacking · air-drying · shrinkage · warping · checking · stickering · curing · finishing · dimensioning
carriage
Wheeled passenger vehicle
trimmer · loader · chipper · planer · infeed · outfeed · hydraulics · automation
- rural industriesdairy, ranching, farming, forestry, livestock breeding
- forestrysilviculture, forests, forestry, reforestation, timber
- loggingloggers, lumberjacks, chainsaws, felling, tree felling
- craftssewing, knitting, painting, glue, scissors
- woodworkingwoodworking, wood, hammer, drill, chisel
- Guyana timbergreenheart, mora, purpleheart, balata
sawmillinglogging
Recording system events
timber harvesting · felling · reforestation · afforestation · tree felling
sawmillingconstruction
Process of building something
timber framing · joinery · assembly · building · woodworking
saw, mill, saws, miller, sawing, milling, mills, jigsaw, chainsaw