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• Article Title: Sawmill

Overview

A sawmill converts felled logs from trees into green wood lumbar. As a piece of the GVCS, it unlocks a range of well-established wood construction techniques.

To convert the green wood into finished dried lumber the cut boards are either air-dried or fired in a kiln.

Product Ecology

Product Ecology
Sawmill

From	Uses	Creates	Enables
Induction Furnace Welder Multimachine Hydraulic Motor Components Blade Structure Bed Gantry Bearings Hydraulic Hoses Control Box	Wood Power Cube	Sawdust Lumber	Pelletizer Chipper Hammermill Kiln Workshop Greenhouse Hab Lab RepLab

Status

The first Sawmill prototype is currently under construction as a part of the GVCS Rollout Plan.

See Dimensional_Sawmill_Prototype_I for in-progress videos.

Videos

See Also

• Sawmill - Design Rationale
• Sawmill Design
• Sawmill Analysis
• Research
• Sawmill Archive
• Cut-to-Length Logging
• Wood
• Forest
• Kiln

Links

• Wikipedia: Sawmill
• Wikipedia: Portable Sawmill

Theo's Github Repository

https://github.com/Veradrix90/Dimensional-Sawmill

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