- Industry: Forest products; Government
- Number of terms: 2933
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Small piece of wood used to make pulp. Chips are made either from wood waste in a sawmill or pulpwood operation, or from pulpwood specifically cut for this purpose. Chips are larger and coarser than sawdust.
Industry:Forest products
Portion of a chipper that includes a chipper spout for the separation of needles and twigs from chips (23)
Industry:Forest products
Registered trade name for a machine that makes small logs into cants, converting part of the outside of the log directly into chips without producing any sawdust. Cants are then sawn into lumber as part of the same operation.
Industry:Forest products
Infeed deck of a chipper, including the chain that feeds the material to be chipped.
Industry:Forest products
Denotes the direction chips leave the chipper housing. May be horizontal, overhead, or from the bottom.
Industry:Forest products
Series of rollers at the front portion of the chipper where the material to be chipped enters.
Industry:Forest products
Replaceable piece of steel with sharpened edge; attaches to a rotating drum.
Industry:Forest products
Breaking or cutting trees into small pieces of controlled fiber length.
Industry:Forest products
