How to Increase Yield on Unedged Boards: Multi-Rip Infeed, Wane Waste, and Positioning (Practical Guide)
How to Increase Yield on Unedged Boards: Multi-Rip Infeed, Wane Waste, and Positioning (Practical Guide) Unedged boards are hard material: variable width, wane on the edges, curvature, and high board-to-board variability. That is why yield at the multi-rip stage can change by shift even when the saw itself is mechanically fine.
Read MoreHow to increase sawmill yield: where volume leaks out (and what to fix first)
How to increase sawmill yield: where volume leaks out (and what to fix first) Yield rarely disappears in one place. It is usually a stack of small losses: a few millimeters wasted due to a bad multi-rip infeed, extra edge waste on wane, non-optimal rip patterns, kerf that is higher than it needs to be, and downtime that never shows up as “yield” but kills cost per m³.
Read MoreHow to reduce wane waste on unedged boards: practical steps before the multi-rip
How to reduce wane waste on unedged boards: practical steps before the multi-rip Wane is one of the main reasons yield on unedged-board lines is unstable. The issue is rarely “the multi-rip is bad”. More often the issue is that boards enter the saw in random offset and angle, so even a good rip pattern is applied inconsistently.
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