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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 2.-,, 1921 



Power LoGGme and 

 Mmber Handling- 



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Danger of Overloading 



Tractor and truck nianufacturers have so often emphasized the 

 extreme importance of either habitually or occasionally overloading 

 (if their products, that it would seem that the suljject would no 

 longer need mentioning. Unfortunately this is not the case, as many 

 saw mill owners and operators who are using trucks and tractors 

 are guilty of this practice. 



Every standnrd warranty covering tiic trucks ;uid tractors em- 

 ployed in the hardwood field are void in the event of overloading. 

 Tiro companies and trailer manufacturers have also pointed out the 

 danger and damage of ovciloading and in some instances the State 

 authorities are arranging a drastic campaign to apprehend and 

 punish both owners and drivers of trucks and tractors which an' 

 found on inil)lic highways overloaded. 



The practice is foolish, expensive and destructive. Not only do 

 the truck and trailers suffer as a result of overloading, but ultimately 

 if the practice is continued, the improved roads will be destroyed. 



Taxpayers who have invested their money in a system of good 

 roads can not be expected to reconcile themselves to seeing this road 

 wantonly destroyed by lack of foresight and negligence of owners 

 who insist in overloading trucks and tractors. 



The writer prophesies that unless a decided effort to discourage 

 this pernicious practice is made the public whose money has built 

 these roads are going to enact legislation which will drive all forms 

 of traffic other than pleasure cars and light rigs off these improved 

 roads. This would be wrong and certainly can not be construed as 

 progressive, but it is very likely to be justifiable if the owners of 

 these rigs do not realize that they are defeating their own interest 

 by continuing tlic overloading. The blame will lay entirely with 

 the truck and tractor operator who overloads his rig, and ultimately 

 all must suffer for his folly. 



The practice of overloading is not ouh- uneconomical and destruc- 

 tive, but it is absolutely unnecessary. The depreciation of the 

 tractor and damage to the mechanism greatly offsets any possible 

 advantage or benefit of the overload. 



Trailers are not prohibitive in price and truck owners wlio feel 

 that their rig is unable to handle the entire load which is required 

 to be moved should adopt trailers. The cost of such trailers is 

 about one-third that of an additional truck and the operating cost 

 plus the interest and dc]ircciation is not over one-fourth that of a 

 truck. 



Beccnt developments in the niaiiufiu-turc of logging trailers show a 

 ver_v close perfection of this e(|uipment. The new trailers now in 

 the market follow the tested and approved standard principles of 

 the older model, yet they possess many new and e'xclusive features 

 which increase the ease of operation and the sturdiness of the 

 rig. One trailer of this type which has come to the writer's recent 

 notice has an interesting feature in its connection which permits 

 the tractor and trailer to turn with the load at any angle without 

 shifting the load. 



By adding such equipnient loads lan be doubled without danger 

 of overloading and oiicrnting cost will not be increased propor- 

 tionately. 



It behooves every owner of trucks and tr:ictors to watch liis 

 neighbors, especially those who are operating their trucks on the 

 same public highway, and to discourage this practice. By so doing 

 the valuable improved good roads will not suffer and the operating 

 and maintenance cost of the truck will not be increased and most 

 assuredly production will not suffer. An indirect advantage will 

 be found in the fact that the public will not be antagonistic to the 



use of highways by loaded trucks if such equipment is not over- 

 loaded and consequently does not tear up and destroy the road. 



Telling the World About the "Caterpillar" 



'I'lic :ihn(pst I'ndli'ss diversity of uses to wliicli tlie Holt ' ' (Jater- 

 liill:ir'' 'l"r:ii-t(ir luis luen successfully adapted is portrayed in 

 striking f;isliion by live bulletins, or pamphlets, and five handsome 

 brochures, which The Holt Manufacturing Company has recently 

 issued. 



This literature is iirofuscly illustrated, is of the highest orler 

 typographically, and covers in interesting detail . the varying 

 ]pli;ises of perforniance of the "Caterpillar.'' It woulfF seem from 

 these liodklits th;it wherever the sun shines on an endeavor of 

 civilized oKin where traction is employed, a Holt five or ten-ton 

 " ('ater]nll.ir ' ' tr:ictor is found successfully toiling. These 

 traetors are shown hauling artillery, bringing up "big guns" for 

 position on the Western Front. They arc hauling long trains of 

 long steel casings in the oil fields of Oklahoma. They are dragging 

 disc ])lows and harrows in Minnesota and harvesting in Kansas. 

 Wherever good roads are being built these tractors pull the road 

 machinery. In the woodlands of the North they arc pulling 

 sledges with tons and tons of northern timber .'iml with equal 

 success are "mud-boating" in the hardwoods forests of the South. 

 At the same time the "Caterpillar" is skidding teak logs in 

 India, plowing cane fields in Cuba and rice fields in Arkansas, and 

 drawing trains of heavily laden log wagons through the mountains 

 of West Virginia. 



The foreword to one of these brochures, which says "that the 

 'Caterpillar' tractor li,as. become established the world over as the 

 most ]U'actical and most successful power ever known for cross- 

 i-cmutry freighting, road making and logging," is no idle boast. 

 It is indeed a "cross-country locomotive" able to travel and pull 

 .•mil climb in the deepest mud, or sand, up the steepest grades, on 

 all kinds of soils and where no other kind of power is practical. 

 The evidence is conclusive that the " Catcr|iillar " tractor has won 

 a most important position in the industrial. agricultiir;il and mili- 

 t;iry opfrations of the world. 



These attractive liooklets. telling a story of real performance 

 in terms that impress and convince, must be taken as fitting evi- 

 dince of the ceaseless and highly intelligence enterprise that has 

 |iut till' "Caterpillar" to work throughout the world. 



Antigo Company Ready to Demonstrate 



.V number of the most prominent logging and lumlier manufactur- 

 ing operators of Langlade county. Wis., and vicinity are backing 

 till- Antigo Tractor Corporation, a .$1,000,000 concern whieh has 

 been organized to develop the business originally established as 

 the Antigo Tractor Company. It is manufacturing a new design 

 of tractor for logging, hauling, farm work, etc. Kive machines 

 are now in work and will be jilaced M.iy 1 in woods, at mills and 

 on farms for final tests. On June 1 the Antigo plant will start 

 a regular production and plans an output of 350 to 400 machines 

 by December 31. It is conducting operations in the former plant of 

 the Murray -Mylrea Company at Antigo, Wis., a large foundry and 

 m.iehine shoji formerly manufacturing and repairing logi;ing and 

 sawmill machinery. W. L. Carver is general manager and chief 

 engineer of the tractor compajiy. 



