Chapter 7. Chips, Sawdust, Planer Shavings, Bark, and Hog .
solid wood to 4.5 cubic feet. If this dry wood is chipped with the same equipment that converted the green log into 15 cubic feet of green chips, the expansion factor of 3.00 predicts that the loose dry chips will occupy 13.5 cubic feet. The same result is obtained by applying volumetric shrinkage to the drying of the green chips to 10% MCod.