Timber package arranger

An apparatus for assembling timber output at the delivery end of a feed conveyor in packages of layers with or without sticks between the layers, comprising a device for transferring a layer of a predetermined number of timber pieces advanced one at a time to a liftable and lowerable stacking table provided after the conveyor in its feed direction, on which table the layers are positioned by the transfer device and stacked one above the other to form a timber package, and which is adapted with the growth of the timber package to correspondingly move in steps until the package is completed, characterized in that the feed conveyor delivers timber pieces in equally spaced relationship, the transfer device is provided in direct connection to the delivery end of the feed conveyor and comprises at least two carrier planes movable individually and after one another in a cyclic path, of which carrier planes always one in a phase of its cyclic movement constitutes a continuation of the feed conveyor for receiving timber pieces delivered from said conveyor to form a layer, which then is transferred by the same, and that each carrier plane during said phase of its cyclic movement moves ahead in agreement with the feed conveyor a distance equal to the width of the timber piece during the time the feed conveyor moves a distance substantially equal to the width of the timber piece and the spacing between them until a layer is completed.