Automation Has Arrived: But Can It Really Make Trusses More Accurately?

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Automation Has Arrived: But Can It Really Make Trusses More Accurately?

  • With the advent of component saws, bow and crook suddenly became an issue.
  • There’s only so much the saw manufacturers can do to compensate for crooked lumber.
  • We’ve all likely witnessed the snail’s pace of a complicated truss setup on a manually jigged pressing table.
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2007 December
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Automation Has Arrived: But Can It Really Make Trusses More Accurately?
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Publisher's Message: Next Stop—2008!
WTCA Update: 2007 Top Chord Club Dinner Combined with WTCA Open Quarterly Meeting
Parting Shots
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