Wood processing

The technical term Woodworking is the first stage of production from raw wood to wood semi-finished products ( lumber, KVH, wood materials and profile boards ). The industry includes the saw, glulam, wood shavings and wood products industry. Furthermore, not technical sense, any kind of wood working: chipping, impregnate, turn and grate, understood below.

Under Woodworking is the process of manufacturing and handling of workpieces made of wood with tools. The go either directly as goods in use, partly as components with predefined geometric determinants are mounted ( subject to certain tolerances and surface quality ) in other assets into functional products.

History of Woodworking

Wood is a common and easily worked material. The woodworking is as old as mankind. Tools for working wood, drills, scrapers, axes, adzes, axes, chisels and splitting wedges are known since the Neolithic period and documented by finds.

Sawing a manufacturing method is likewise known from early days. As early as the Bronze Age, the Egyptians put a bow saws made ​​of bronze, with them you will also find first inlays. This fine art surface processing came later in medieval Europe to a standstill. The typical woodworking tool, the plow is already detectable for the Roman period, as 1991, two planing were found from the Roman period in Üttfeld / Eifel, whose construction anmutet thoroughly modern.

The machining of wood turning is already detectable in the early civilizations. Fiddle drill and file or rasp complement the prehistoric woodworking inventory. As early glues tree resins were probably used to connect. These woodworking tools could be refined and improved by improving the metalworking, but the modern woodworking methods can in principle to the old base method traced.

Woodworking machinery

• Gang saw
• Band saw
• Edger
• Chipper canter

Tools

Wood is machined in general: there is fibrous and easily split up, a very sharp edge is required. The high elasticity of the timber will cause the weggepresste by the tool, and thus not a part of the wood chip worn strives back to its original shape. This can lead to dangerous accidents with circular saws, so a wedge behind the circular saw blade and a cover is mandatory to prevent jamming and kickback of the saw goods.