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Discussing How Glulams are Manufactured
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Discussing How Glulams are Manufactured
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" Tell us first before we take the -- his idea was that invented the glulam. Well actually what happened with glulam from about a hundred years ago over in Europe on the job site. What you have happened is the guys who get dimensional lumber and he wanted to have a theme for the next to you that their job site on the job site right and eventually when we come up with this what we -- here this is. Pretty typical of in terms of size right right. Well if we can make a big feet deep and 130 feet long right typically they going to residential application after we're talking about a smaller size is this a coincidence or you often have. The central rings located within one of these. Well basically we're coming from second and third growth timber which it which grows in our western Oregon timberlands here. And it's smaller did we mention seven to twelve inches in diameter you're going to make to reported -- I don't have a heart that are sure to -- we start the tour let's go over here the finger joint lines."
" How how exactly does it work well this art machine goes through creates a bigger apply the glue and -- here. From radio frequency and like microwaves. And it's secured and he's -- and then what's the next step. Periodically throughout the day we have to test these finger joint venture with all the tested to destruction and ensure that there would failure and not the Blue Line then how do you actually assemble the pieces that are going to form a glulam. The ribbons traveled down this line to go down to the end. And there they're laid up in a recipe of the designated great that we have a recipe so that your designating. Which pieces of lumber go where within the little exactly Bob what we do is we machines for restraint and we visually grade the longer do. Specific rate -- and all the lumber justice as distraught. No it's not bothered you know it comes to retreat. The sat on the outside being stronger over and the heart is a little bit weaker and where would the strongest one will be placed -- walk we'll -- And the weaker -- on the inside. And we begin to extract -- process. The beam is already laid it right or. It's going to -- to the exterior exclusive like the face on -- on over to the wicked look. Itself they're called blue laminated beams let's talk about the glue involved it's not regular carpenter's glue that I can buy over the counter. No Bob it's specially formulated by -- companies around country it's actually the knowledge ransom but we're structural applications. And it has to go through and heating process in order to really. That there's committed basically to have to happen pressure and heat to -- How do you actually a quiet the bright -- travels over here on the compares it. We're traveled underneath it -- and polluted flood speak on he goes over to the wicked look. This rig it kind of looks like a conveyor belt that's going north going vertical what happened -- plantations travel up in the order they were laid out. And it created in the bundle to retreat and they don't want that perhaps this is the rest area. What we have is pressure at a 110 pounds per square ranch we've got a 150000. Watts of energy creating heat like a giant microwave oven. Now this is a pretty large glowing job that you've got here how do you make sure that you've gotten the -- bread evenly and that the that the thing has its integrity. But we have all the information that ticket for example we can check -- based on material that we are pleased that sample -- single -- How do you deal with a perfect. Simply Bob we build what what the applications for concealed you put in some residential like to have exposed so that -- takes -- Now what's happening at this stage where you're standing with the third party effectively. You can hurt weakened form nationals and -- And you fathered a gift -- don't take very good care who bought. They gotta go out in the field and any time it may be an inventory. Three to six months. So they're protected with a very high quality people wrapped."
" You've got an enormous amount a glulam sitting on their in this parking lot can you give me any idea of how many board -- here we keep about five million board feet of inventory on the ground at all night and how many do you make him one day 300000 board feet 300000 board feet. How many railroad cars would it take. We'll look -- to clear up a whole yard it would take fifteen rail cars to do that a lot of inventory slot Steve thanks for the tour you've got Bob."
