Forest Products

Biomass - stems that can’t be sold for anything else, and tops and limbs.  Chipped on site and sold for fuel.

 Boltwood - short (8’), usually small logs used in turnery and other manufactured wood products; like tongue depressors, popsicle sticks, toothpicks, and golf tees.

Lumber - made from sawlogs

OSB - (O)riented (S)trand (B)oard – plywood-like sheets made from chipped pulp

Pallet logs - the lowest grade logs from which boards are sawn.  Most used to produce wooden pallets and packing crates.

Paper - made from pulp

Plywood - made from Veneer

Pulp - used to make paper and cardboard, can also be chipped.

 Sawlogs - used to make dimension lumber, like 2x4s; and boards.

Tie-logs - used to make railroad ties.  Generally lower quality than Sawlogs but must be 100% sound.

Veneer - logs peeled or sliced into thin layers that are glued together to make plywood.  Also a thin layer of high quality wood, like cherry, glued to a solid core of lower quality wood, like red maple, to make you think you bought solid cherry furniture.