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Slab′bing-gang.


Saw.) An arrangement of saws in a gate by which a log is cut into a central balk of the required width, and the slab simultaneously ripped into boards of the desired thickness.

The end of a log ripped by the slabbing-gang.

a is the balk which embraces the heart, and may be 12, 14, or 16 or more inches wide, according to the desired width of lumber. The other saws are gaged to distance apart, so as to reduce the whole of the slabs into boards by one passage of the log. The waney portions of the slab-boards are removed by the edger (which see).

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