2002 Teachers' Tours Scrapbook: Lewiston, Idaho

2002 Intermountain Region Teachers' Tour Scrapbook

July 10-13, 2002

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[Wednesday] : [Thursday] : [Friday] : [Saturday]

Thursday Morning: Bennett Lumber Mill

Thursday Morning: Idaho Department of Lands Briefing

Thursday Morning: Cut-to-Length Harvesting Demo by Guy Lawson

Thursday Lunch: University of Idaho Experimental Forest

Thursday Afternoon: Experimental Forest Fire Site

Thursday Afternoon: White Oaks Grove

Bruce standing by a cedar and white pine

Thursday Afternoon: Potlatch Plywood Mill

View of lathe that peels logs into veneer

Another view of logs being peeled into veneer

Peeled veneer coming off the lathe

Cores of veneer logs after being peeled

Photo of clipper cutting peeled veneer into 27 and 50 inch wide sheets

Veneers being stacked to go into the dryer

This round table is where patched veneers are graded

Lay-up line where veneers are assembled into perpendicular layers for plywood

Assembled plywood is stacked to go to the press

A pre-press helps remove excess adhesive before pressing

This press handles 30+ sheets at a time

Teachers examine the polyurethane that patches holes in the pressed plywood

Stacks of plywood prepare to be banded for shipping

Automated bander straps together plywood stacks

Stacks of finished plywood from Potlatch

Click here to see a scrapbook from last year's Intermountain Teachers' Tour.

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