Preparation of long wood strands - involves splitting logs into segments along grain, then into parallel slabs and finally into strands

摘要

The method of splitting a log into longitudinal grain wood strands involves radially splitting the log along the grain of the log into several sector shaped segment and parallel splitting each of the sector shaped segments along the grain of the segments into parallel slabs. Each of the parallel slabs is split along the grain of the slabs into longitudinal grain wood strands. All the splitting steps are carried out with the splitting lines perpendicular to the springwood-summerwood interfaces. The splitter includes several intermeshing counter-rotating discs mounted in rows.