It all starts with oak logs that have been cut and are stacked out at the far end of the parking lot. Those are brought into the building and debarked. They are then taken upstairs where they are sawn into sized blocks for the type of product to be made. These blocks are loaded into a shut that goes to a hopper down on the first floor by one of the cutting machines. A worker then takes a block and clamps it into the machine and presses it against the spinning cutter heads. Both the wooden block and the cutter heads spin in the same direction so that when the wooden block is pressed toward the cutter heads it is trimmed all the way around the block.