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Maintenance

Pruning For Timber Production - Pruning is a general term for a variety of operations that involve the removal of selected shoots and branches from trees for a particular purpose. Pruning is carried out with the main purpose of producing a higher quality timber. Two types of pruning are practiced, form and clearwood pruning

Thinning for Wood Production - Thinning can be defined as the selective removal of the less desirable trees in a forest to encourage better growth and development of the remaining trees. The main concept of thinning is to regulate the growing space within a stand for the advancement of yield of the remaining stems.

Timber Harvesting

Techniques For Visualizing The Appearance Of Timber Harvest Operations - The appearance of landscapes and individual stands after harvest operations is critical to public acceptance of timber harvest practices. This paper reviews four visualization techniques suitable for visualizing the appearance of timber harvest operations: geometric modeling, video imaging, a hybrid technique combining geometric modeling and video imaging, and image draping

Assessing the volume and value of timber on your property - Assessing the timber on your property is not hard, but it follows the golden rule of data collection – the more effort you put into it the more accurate your result will be. Most native forest stands are patchy and uneven in the distribution of the trees ready for harvest and most of the trees will be rotten to some extent in the centre.

Narapela Wei promotes the use of Portable Sawmills - with native forest conservation, and employment at village level. Ecological Forestry, or EcoForestry, using Narapela Wei's EcoSaw, the Portable Sawmill chainsaw equipment in Papua New Guinea has achieved a sustainable Village income without unsustainable levels of Forest Cutting.

Defining the Product Log Grades Used in Australia - RIRDC Project No ANU-44A) A report for the RIRDC/Land & Water Australia/FWPRDC Joint Venture Agroforestry Program by Dr R. N. James December 2001 RIRDC Publication No 01/161 RIRDC Project No ANU-44A. The main factor determining log specifications is intended use. Logs form a hierarchy of quality classes and values. From best to worst these are: veneer logs (for face veneer or the manufacture of plywood).

Radial Sawing - An article by Andrew Knörr Radial Timber Australia Ltd, PO Box 224 Yarram 3971 In Australia average saw log sizes have been steadily decreasing as old growth forests are cut over or locked up for conservation purposes. Economic forces and resource competition force the reduction of rotation cycles in both regrowth and plantation forests. This results in the production of logs that in many cases are not suitable for economic processing by traditional milling systems.

Treatment

Osmose “The world wide leader in wood preservation technology” - Osmose, Inc. has produced wood preservative chemicals in the United States since 1953, and is the industry leader in the field. A structured program of planned expansion by acquisition during the mid-1990s has also made Osmose a major player in the global wood preservation market.

Timber Seasoning In Australia - Department of Forestry Australian National University Canberra

Health and Environmental Guidelines for Selected Timber Treatment - Guidelines & Abbreviations for selected timber treatment chemicals, June 1997

Value Adding

State Forests of NSW: Press Releases: NSW timber value-adding - This growing resource will provide the sawlogs to support high value adding timber processing industries on the North Coast

Adding value to forest products in Western Australia - ensuring that the highest value is obtained for each piece of sawn timber.

Service Providers (Sawmills Mills)

Service Providers (Portable Sawmillers)