FIELD: wood-working industry. SUBSTANCE: the device has at least two gripping dogs installed on slides. The dogs represent fork tongs. Each gripping dog has two legs, which are interconnected for turning about the common axis lying below the axis of the work center. The legs of the gripping dogs are installed for turning on cantilevers directed downward from the slides. The gripping dogs are made for joining due to the turning of their legs concentrically to the middle axis of the work center, the axis of the log kept by the legs of the gripping dogs coincides with the axis of the work center. EFFECT: enhanced capacity. 13 cl, 4 dwg
