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Excerpt from Converting Forest Residue to Structural Flakeboard: The Fingerling Concept More intensive use of forest residue has long been the goal of forest managers. An estimated 9 billion cubic feet of residue is left in the woods annually. Of this amount, an estimated 6 billion cubic feet could be converted to particleboard, flake board, pulp, fuel, and other uses. Increased use of residues would greatly extend the timber supply and generally improve forest management. Converting forest residues to structural - grade flakeboard has been under consider ation for many years. However, several problems remained unsolved. The flaking machines available were designed for use at mills and were too cumbersome and too easily knocked out of tolerance to be used at logging sites. Residues other than cull logs were too bulky to haul to the mills economically. Trucks would overflow with small, crooked stems, limbs, and chunks when loaded to only a small fraction of weight capacity. A concept that had shown promise in the laboratory was the breaking of residues into small pieces called fingerlings, then flaking the fingerlings with a small laboratory flaking machine, and finally manufacturing the flakes into flakeboard. Theoretically, reside could be converted to fingerlings on the logging site and transported to the mill much more economically than the raw residues. Whether the fingerling concept would work on a commercial scale remained to be tested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.