Check -Splitting of the wood in logs or lumber, often the result of drying. Check scaler -One who rescales logs in order to detect errors in the initial scaling. Chemical pulping -Process in which wood fibers are separated by removing the lignin and certain other wood components through the use of chemicals. Chip -Small piece of wood used to make pulp. Chips are made either from wood waste in a sawmill or pulpwood operation, or from pulpwood specifically cut for this purpose.
Chips are larger and coarser than sawdust.
Cants are then sawn into lumber as part of the same operation. Chipper -See harvesting machine classifications, single function machines . Chipper knife -See portable chipper terms . Chipping -See harvest functions . Chip unit -Chip volume equal to 1 cord of pulpwood.