Device for the handling of logs

Device for the handling of logs, especially within a trimming machine, comprising handling means for logs along a path developed between an entrance section of the logs to be trimmed and an exit section of the trimmed logs, with blades set along said path and intended to provide the trimming of the logs, said handling means of logs also constituting means of holding or blocking the logs along said path, characterized in that said handling and blocking means of logs are comprised of two series of guide blades set on opposite sides of the path followed by logs, said two series of guide blades being subdivided into a first and a second group set on opposite sides of a vertical plane, so that the guide blades of a same series and of a same group form two subgroups of guide blades which are set on opposite sides of the cutting plane of a corresponding blade, said guide blades being mounted onto respective conveying means along said path followed by the logs, and the guide blades of each series engaging the logs diametrically opposite the guide blades of the other series.