Visuell handelsortering av furu och gran

Abstract

This essay concerns the visual trade grading of pine and spruce. In the 1800s developed rules for sorting of wood. The rules used to facilitate the export trade. The terms of the regulatory sorting systems developed in the 1900s. While it still used some of the older terms. The essay deals with how the grading rules affect the use of wood and how the rule work and how the terminology works. Some of the terms used for sorting are O/S, Kvinta, Utskott and A,B,C,D. You sorting by counting the numbers of knots, cracks and other characteristics of each piece of wood. The sawmills have much influence in how the rules developed. Today it is often already determined in the sawmills which uses each piece of wood most have.