Rough Mill Operator's Guide:
Operator Training and Cross Training Manual
This web site contains the major chapters of the new rough mill operators guide to be published by the Forest Service in the near future. These chapters have been published as articles in either FDM or Wood & Wood Products magazines.
Those articles with a highlighted title and a
image following the title have an Adobe Acrobat (TM) formatted version that is available by clicking on the image. You will need the Acrobat Reader to view these files.
- Factors
that Impact Yield
- Lumber
Processing Efficiency, Yield & Value
- Deciding
Between Crosscut vs. Rip-First Processing
- Scheduling Parts Processing in the Rough Mill
- Optimizing
Operations on a Manual Crosscut Saw
- Optimizing
Crosscut and Chop Saw Operations
- Manual
Rip Saw Operations
- Optimizing
Operations on a Gang Rip Saw
- Panel
Layup Operations
- Optimizing Operations at the Moulder
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