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Debarker machine Manually decorticated trunk of a spruce as protection to bark beetles. Debarking is the process of removing bark from wood.Traditional debarking is conducted in order to create a fence post or fence stake which would then go on to be pointed before being planted. [1]
Wood processing is an engineering discipline in the wood industry comprising the production of forest products, such as pulp and paper, construction materials, and tall oil.
Ancient Egyptian woodworking. There is significant evidence of advanced woodworking in ancient Egypt. [1] Woodworking is depicted in many extant ancient Egyptian drawings, and a considerable amount of ancient Egyptian furniture (such as stools, chairs, tables, beds, chests) have been preserved.
Wood grain is the longitudinal arrangement of wood fibers [1] or the pattern resulting from such an arrangement. [2] R. Bruce Hoadley wrote that grain is a "confusingly versatile term" with numerous different uses, including the direction of the wood cells (e.g., straight grain, spiral grain), surface appearance or figure, growth-ring placement (e.g., vertical grain), plane of the cut (e.g ...
Large self-supporting wooden roof built for Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. Engineered wood, also called mass timber, composite wood, man-made wood, or manufactured board, includes a range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding or fixing the strands, particles, fibres, or veneers or boards of wood, together with adhesives, or other methods of fixation [1] to form ...
Dalbergia parviflora. Lakawood, or laka wood (Malay: kayu laka), is a reddish aromatic heartwood used as incense in China, India and South East Asia. [1] It also had a number of other uses in the past, for example as a dye and for medicinal purposes.
Bałak (Polish pronunciation:; often mistakenly called bałach) is a jargon or a sociolect spoken by the commoners of the city of Lwów (modern Lviv, Ukraine). [1] [2] A distinct part of the Lwów dialect of the Polish language, it consists of a Lesser Poland Polish language substratum with a variety of borrowings from German, Yiddish, Ukrainian and other languages.
Eusideroxylon are canopy tree species with erect or spreading branches and extremely durable and decay-resistant wood.. Eusideroxylon zwageri is a slow growing (0.5 metres per year) [4] [5] tall evergreen tree with a straight bole (usually host to Cassytha, a parasitic vine with leaves reduced to scales, up to half of the tree's height).