The effect of barking on the pile density

The effect of barking on the pile density

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According to the available literature, the times when pulpwood limbing was made by axe and barking by hand tools, barking either had no effect on the pile density (if limbing quality was good) or increased pile density (if limbing was 12n/1200 wella bad).When rotary barking machines are used, the branch stumps remain intact during barking.Therefore, if there are branch stumps in the pulpwood, barking decreases the pile density.Nowadays, when power saw limbing is a common practice in Finland, barking presumably greatly decreases the pile density, due to natio glide on eyeshadow stick the fact that in power saw limbing branch stumps are numerous and high.Therefore, the method to estimate the solid volume of a pile of unbarked pulpwood are not applicable to barked pulpwood without modification.

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