Patent ID: 7861754

Claim:
A wood processing machine adapted to cut a wood workpiece traveling in a process direction, comprising: a first saw assembly positioned across a workpiece flow path, the first saw assembly having a first arbor disposed for rotational movement and one or more first saws coupled to the first arbor such that the first saws rotate with the arbor and move axially along the first arbor; a second saw assembly disposed across the workpiece flow path and downstream from the first saw assembly in relation to the workpiece process direction, the second saw assembly having a second arbor disposed for rotational movement, one or more second saws coupled to the second arbor such that the second saws rotate with the second arbor and move axially along the second arbor; and a controller operatively coupled to the first and the second saw assembly, the controller configured to independently control movement of the first saw assembly and the second saw assembly so that the first at least one or more saws can follow a first optimized cutting path and the second at least one or more saws can follow a second optimized cutting path overlapping at least a portion of the first optimized cutting path as the work piece travels in the process direction, the first and second optimized cutting paths defining a first product and a second product to be cut from the workpiece.