logmaker

Definitions

1. A device that creates 'logs' out of burnable waste; the device encases the burnable waste within a newspaper wrapping by the use of a special tube and plunger.
2. One who cuts trees at a tree farm and prepares logs for further processing; lumberman.
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Examples

“The Advertising Standards Authority concluded that the complaint was justified, noting that under the Act, authorisation for fuels produced by the "logmaker" would be unlikely since manufacture⟳ could not be controlled to a sufficient degree to ensure uniform quality of any fuel produced.”

“You need⟳ to soak⟳ the paper in water, squash it into the logmaker and squeeze⟳ down the handles.”

“In fact nowadays, you can buy⟳ hand-cranked log-makers that will compact your newspapers, which are also cellulose, into handy burnable briquettes -- useful if you are miles from recycling facilities.”

“y'know those paper logmakers where you soak⟳ some newspaper and then put⟳ it in a metal box and pull⟳ the handles to compress it? I have⟳ tried to this.”

“So, on the alert for any sound⟳ which might enable him to locate⟳ logmaker or roadcutter who would put⟳ him on the track of Angus, he tramped along and it was not long before his attention was rewarded.”

“Log⟳ making exhibited a workload which could be classified as moderate to heavy because the logmaker used a chainsaw on the landing.”

“A poor logmaker who managed to achieve⟳ 70% of the optimum would be loosing^([sic]) $60 per tree which is $30 per tonne or $18,000 per hectare.”

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