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Record 1 2011-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

A band saw used for small logs or for reducing cants from a larger head saw.

CONT

Ponys and resaws are used to break down cants from the headrigs into smaller sizes for further manufacture ... The pony is generally a smaller band saw and carriage used for manufacturing large cants into slabs and/or smaller cants. ... Pony rigs are usually confined to large-log mills ... Although the single cut or double cut band-carriage is the most common type of pony rig, a circle saw carriage, or a twin band carriage can also be used for this purpose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

Petite scie à ruban utilisée pour le sciage de grumes de petites dimensions ou le resciage de plateaux provenant d'une plus grande scie.

Spanish

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