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  2. Wood drying - Wikipedia

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    Wood drying (also seasoning lumber or wood seasoning) reduces the moisture content of wood before its use. When the drying is done in a kiln, the product is known as kiln-dried timber or lumber, whereas air drying is the more traditional method. There are two main reasons for drying wood: Woodworking

  3. Sawmill - Wikipedia

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    A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimensional lumber). The "portable" sawmill is simple to operate. The log lies flat on a steel bed, and the ...

  4. Weyerhaeuser - Wikipedia

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    The Weyerhaeuser Company (/ ˈ w ɛər h aʊ z ə r / WAIR-how-zər) is an American timberland company which owns nearly 12,400,000 acres (19,400 sq mi; 50,000 km 2) of timberlands in the U.S., and manages an additional 14,000,000 acres (22,000 sq mi; 57,000 km 2) of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. [5]

  5. Great Southern Lumber Company - Wikipedia

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    The Great Southern Lumber Company sawmill was designed to process 1,000,000 board feet (2,400 m 3) of lumber per day and was the largest sawmill in the world, [4] spread over 160 acres (65 ha). [7] Once pines were felled, logs were dragged to railroad spurs by rail-mounted steam skidders with 1000-ft (300-m) draglines, loaded onto flatcars ...

  6. List of watermills in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Greenfield Mills, near Howe. Family owned and operating. Iowa. Pine Creek Gristmill, Wildcat Den State Park, near Muscatine; Kentucky. Mill Springs Overshot Waterwheel located at Mill Springs Park. The current mill built in 1877 on the site of a previous mill. Currently owned and operated as a park by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

  7. Van Buren Township, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Van Buren Township is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.A western suburb of Detroit, Van Buren Township is located roughly 28 miles (45.1 km) southwest of downtown Detroit, and 17 miles (27.4 km) southeast of Ann Arbor.

  8. History of the lumber industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    President Roosevelt believed that unrestrained competition was one of the root causes of the Great Depression. According to The Effect of the N.R.A. Lumber Code on Forest Policy, national lumber codes regulated various aspects of the industry, including wages, hours, and price. [58] The industry was suffering on many fronts.

  9. Dierks Forests - Wikipedia

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    Dierks Forests, Inc., known until 1954 as the Dierks Lumber and Coal Company [1] and originally known as Choctaw Lumber Co., [2] was a timber harvesting and processing company primarily in Oklahoma and Arkansas.