Wood lagging machine

An apparatus for producing wood lagging blankets comprising:

• a board singulator including:
• an infeed feeding boards to an infeed queue, said infeed queue for queuing a mat of boards in an alignment aligned traversly to a flow direction of said infeed and said infeed queue,
• a selectively actuable stop for selectively interrupting a translation of boards in said flow direction when said stop is actuated into a board engaging position and allowing said translation of boards in said flow direction when said stop is in a board disengaged position,
• a board spacer including:
• a selectively actuable spacing conveyor for conveying the boards downstream in said flow direction from said stop without changing said alignment, and spacing the boards according to spacing instructions from a controller controlling actuation and translation speed of said spacing conveyor and actuation of said stop,
• a wire stand feeder feeding at least one strand of wire parallel to said flow direction and over said spacing conveyor so as to sandwich the boards on said spacing conveyor between said spacing conveyor and said at least one strand of wire,
• a fastener applicator mounted aligned vertically over said at least one strand of wire to fasten by fasteners at least one strand of wire down onto the boards on said spacing conveyor to thereby form a lagging blanket of spaced apart boards spaced with substantially constant gapping between the boards, wherein said lagging blanket is tethered together as a stable matrix of laterally aligned boards aligned laterally relative to said flow direction and wire strands aligned parallel to said flow direction.