debarker

Removal of the bark is done in a barker (or debarker).

Bark from the debarker machine is not wasted but used in the Salton.

Emphasis on enhanced debarker maintenance will support improved debarking efficiency.

This is being tested by debarker manufacturers.

Mills with larger output often have two production lines, with a ring debarker for smaller logs.

Loose logs are fed into a drum debarker using an overhead log crane with a capacity of 1500 tonnes per day.

Some short log operations use a drum debarker to debark short hardwood bolts.

Hancock, a debarker operator with Weyerhaeuser Miramichi, is also a small business owner.

Nina returns to the mill and kills Ma and Pa with the debarker.

An operator controls the pressure and speed of the debarker to ensure that the bark is removed from the logs as efficiently as possible.

A mill will select the type of debarker best suited to its needs in terms of maximum and minimum log diameter and production rate.

The aspen, or hardwood, line is similar to the softwood line except that logs are debarked in a Nicholson mechanical ring debarker.

Ron Binion, 31, a vacationing puppeteer from Northern California, said, "It looks like a hydraulic debarker."

This sector of the sawmill has been neglected for many years as it is very difficult to measure and quantify the economic impact of debarker fibre losses.

Nina successfully escapes, but Jake wanders into a room fitted with an enormous tree debarker, where he is attacked by Ma and Pa.

A hydraulic debarker is a machine removing bark from wooden logs by the use of water under a pressure of 100 psia (6.8 atmospheres) or greater.

Located in Val-d’Amour, the company is Atlantic Canada’s only manufacturer and producer of chipper and debarker parts for the sawmill industry.

Ring debarking may have to be supplemented with a rotor type drum debarker (e.g. Fuji King) to prevent breakage of smaller logs.

A debarker operator at a sawmill left his post to assist a resaw operator after a slab became jammed in the resaw guard.

Dual ring debarkers have shown to be effective in dealing with burnt wood, while some mills using a single ring debarker have added a second in-line.

Preparing the Logs Existing Technologies Log preparation begins with the debarker, a mechanical device that strips the bark from the incoming logs.

The company itself was a tourist attraction that once welcomed visitors for a tour of the (now permanently closed) largest Redwood Mill ever constructed, which included an unusual hydraulic debarker.

In September 2002, FNZ completed the commissioning of a debarker and anti-sapstain treatment plant at the new Marsden Point Port in Northland.

This new acquisition is part of a growth plan the company initiated last year with the expansion and modernization of its facility where it manufactures chipper and debarker parts for the sawmill industry.

Lumber and Value-Added Wood Products 4.5 Debarking Existing Technology There are many types of debarkers available but, in softwood sawmills, the most popular is undoubtedly the ring debarker.