JAMES PETER SMITH
Pilots at Bracken Dr, Moultrie, GA

5381712, Jan 17, 1995

Jan 12, 1993

8/003317

George W. Head - Snellville GA
Reginald R. Landers - Monroe GA
James L. Smith - Moultrie GA

Forest Products Machinery, Inc. - Monroe GA

B27B 2906

83418

An infeed system for a gang saw includes at least one loading station laterally displaced from the infeed station of the gang saw, a pivotable skewing tube arrangement operable at the loading station for orienting a two-sided cant to a given orientation relative to a line parallel with the longitudinal horizontal infeed line of the gang saw, thereby to obtain maximum yield from the cant, a lateral transport device operable to transport the skewing tube and the cant from the loading station to a position adjacent the infeed line while maintaining the cant in the desired orientation, and a longitudinal transport device for transporting the properly orientated cant to the gang saw. Preferably, a second loading station is laterally spaced on the opposite side of the infeed line from the first loading station, whereby cants may be selectively supplied to the in-feed station from the large-log and small-log sides of the mill, thus producing maximum production from a single gang saw means.