Method and apparatus for taking up a board road

摘要

The present disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for taking up a board road the bottom layer of boards of which have been laid with their major axes transversely of the road and the top layer of boards of which are nailed to the bottom layer with the major axes of the boards of the top layer being longitudinally of the direction of the board road which provides a grasping and unnailing station for grasping a plurality of the longitudinally laid boards and breaking their nailed connection with the under layer of transversely laid boards, thereafter stacking said boards in layers at a stacking station to be baled into bundles, while bending the nails flat which upstand from each board as the layers of boards are formed at the stacking station and thereafter baling the stacked layers of boards into bundles and transporting the bundles of stacked boards to inventory.