Students enrolled in the Introduction to Forestry course (AGPS 1033) took a field trip to Bibler Brothers Lumber Co. to see how trees are processed into lumber.
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For safety reasons, each student was fitted with a hard hat, safety glasses and ear plugs.
Logs are weighed prior to being unloaded.
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Logs are unloaded, weighed and stacked in inventory until they are processed.
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Using a 155 foot circular crane, logs are loaded into the merchandiser where they go through a debarking process. Once logs are cut to length, they go to one of three cutting areas according to size.
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In the cutting room, logs are scanned and than cut into boards of various lengths.
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Outputs from all three cutting areas are routed to one of two sorters. From the sorter, boards are put into bundles and than dried in large drying kilns.
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Dried lumber is than taken to the planner mill where all four sides of the board are planned at the same time.
Once boards are planned, they are graded, sorted and stacked, ready to market.
