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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for consolidating and stabilizing lumber wherein adjustment of a water content of the lumber becomes easy and the lumber can be sufficiently and uniformly stabilized by consolidation. SOLUTION: In the method for carrying out a consolidation and stabilization treatment for the lumber by heating and compressing the lumber W by using a mold 20 capable of being hermetically sealded, which has mutually opposed hot plates 21, the lumber is stored between the hot plates, and heated and compressed with the hot plates. Besides, a temperature of the hot plates are raised to an stabilization treating set temperature. After the hot plates reach the stabilization treating set temperature, water vapour is introduced into a hermetically sealed space between the hot plates to maintain a compressed state while the water content of the lumber is adjusted and the hot plates are cooled in the compressed state thereafter.
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