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Canadian wood products industries (1915)

Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications · leaf 276

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up an incline to a set of six Whitney tub andpail stave saws on the second floor. Different sizesof saws are used, according to the size of the finishedarticle. The logs are supplied in even lengths, so asto give a flat surface for the carriage of the barrel saw.The staves are cut and thrown into a… … made by the Goodspeed Machine Company, of Win-chendon, Mass.—where the pail is completed. Theoperation of one of these machines calls for five men.One man with a small circular saw and a special shapedtable and guide edges the bark off the staves andgives them their correct taper. On the frame of…

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