Effects of preprocessing 1 Common and 2A Common red oak lumber on gang-rip-first rough-mill dimension part yields

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 53-60

  Gatchell, Charles J ^a,b   Thomas, R Edward ^a,b   Walker, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a Northeastern Res Sta   (United States)

^b FOREST PRODUCTS SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOPSAW; GANG-RIP-FIRST ROUGH MILLS; HARDWOOD LUMBER;

LOGGING (FORESTRY); LUMBER; SAWS;

SAWMILLS;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 0032672619     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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