A jig assembly includes jig body having a front side, a top side, a bottom side, a left side, and a right side, the top side and the bottom side being parallel to each other, the left side and the right side being parallel to each other, and the front side being perpendicular to the top side and bottom side. A lower carriage support is connected to a lower portion of the front side, and an upper carriage support is removably coupled to an upper portion of the front side. A pinion is connected to a top of the top side, the pinion configured to spin freely about an axle, and a pinion axle bracket is connected to a back of the front side above the pinion.

Systems and methods for merging recycling a barrel are disclosed. The method includes removing one or more barrel bands from the barrel that holds one or more barrel staves radially around a circumference of the barrel. The one or more barrel bands are removed by sliding from an inner position on an outside of the barrel to a smaller end portion of the barrel. The method further includes reversing an arc of the one or more barrel staves. The method further includes determining a joint side angle of the one or more barrel staves. In addition, the method includes machining the joint side angle on two longitudinal sides of the barrel staves such that the barrel staves are assembled into a recycled barrel such that the outside of the barrel staves faces an inside of the recycled barrel.

A stave wood for the production of a stave of a wood container, having a first layer of a first wood and a second layer of wood. The second layer being a layer of a second wood different from the first wood. The first and second layers of wood being assembled together exclusively by a mortice and tenon joint with no adhesive binder. The face of the second layer opposite that intended to form an exterior face of the stave includes one or more tenons forming a projection thereon extending only along the longitudinal axis of the stave wood. The face of the first layer of wood opposite that is intended to an interior face of the stave includes a corresponding mortice for each tenon of the second layer of wood a extending along the longitudinal axis of the stave wood.