Meaning of rift-saw | Babel Free

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“All material should be rift-sawed in so far as possible but flat-sawed lumber is acceptable up to 33 1/3 per cent of the board- foot contents of a shipment when necessary to utilize all the material in the log or cant that is of the required quality.”

“The mill's second major difference is that it rift-saws and quarter-saws the majority of its wood.”

“However, they are also rift-sawed or quarter-sawed, which means that the saw cut is radial, as shown in B, Fig.1.”

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