Economic Feasibility Analyses 



3531 



LOG TRUCKS IN 



LOG INFEED 

 DECK 



LOG TRUCK 

 TRAFFIC ONLY 



Figure 28-18. — Plant layout for large-scale manufacture of pallet parts. (Drawing after 

 Koch and Gruenhut 1981.) 



28-17 $3.2 MILLION— LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURE 

 OF PALLET PARTS PLUS FLAKES AND PULP CHIPS" 



In this plant (fig. 28-18), planned for Loganville, Ga., weight-scaled oak, 

 sweetgum, and yellow-poplar logs — mostly tree-length — are offloaded by crane 

 and sorted into inventory. They are then crane-transferred to a log cut-up deck to 

 yield sawlogs, veneer logs, and 3- to 4-foot-long, 6- to 14-inch-diameter bolts. 

 The latter are drum-debarked and converted on two shaping-lathe headrigs into 

 cants (figs. 28-19 top and 18-104D top) for resawing into pallet lumber. The 

 sawlogs and veneer logs are resold. Annual purchased log volume (6- to 24- 

 inch-diameter) is 14 million board feet Doyle log scale (3,817,250 cubic feet). 



^Abstracted from Koch and Gruenhut (1981). 



