Ist Issue, June

BC:

LUMBER WORKER

The rapid Sons of peomleey A in the plywood section
of ue lumber has ci and

lose Ww!
production methods in a paedeen 4 BY wood plant m:
be eae by some aspects of the nt aan Bor

of the automatic procedures

now emplc
Lumber eyed

The explan:
each photograph has been furnished by the

sentative on the job evaluation team, Al Bus
plywood worker.

, who

himself a

by the Lathe Operator who transforms the log
or rotory cutting in a large lathe. ihe continuous
eds ie directed by a Lathe’ Aro in fo a set
ply Unatigeds

2. orried ou!

hits ivaneer by mei 9

veneer sheet thus develop
of 100-foot long transfer

s to supI

who selectively cuts the long sheet into usable
requirements of the order
oes sheets and

ted motion,

. Clipper Operator wi

Brees ithe aidencarihich’ i determined by the

file, and the grade and quclity of the veneer. The clips
Jom widths emerge im Aree eepeistions untn
moving belts to a long waist high are

‘he it on skids according to size,

Since who pull the stock and
type end spmatiny aredee This is in eration for removal. of

cong

done
electric jitney or by fork lift truck t
ent

neer dryer which is fed yeneer by o
fe of the dry pictured, are assisted by a
vement of ie veneer is

. Most British Columbia plywood is made from Douglas fir peeler logs.
These are ee fe; iB: plants ores in the form of booms, which are yeten
up b:

roken uired. The individual logs are sorted and
y are reduced to veneer

lock lenaths, floated to the block well along water raceways ond

levated by block conveyor or electric hoist to the berksr deck, Fro

ere each Block in turn is hoisted fo o position bates center
f the machine pictured above for debarking in prepar

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