March 25, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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OurSpecialtyls AMERICAN WALNUT 



Lumber and Veneers 



Our Band Mill at Cincinnati is in daily operation and we 

 now carry a stock of over three million feet of walnut 

 lumber. 



We have also ready for prompt shipment three million 

 feet of walnut long wood veneers, half million feet of 

 walnut stumpwood and one million feet of African and 

 Central American mahogany veneers. 



We Also Handle 



AH0GANY 



MEXICAN 



PHILTPPINE 



The Kosse, Shoe & Sehleyer Co. 



EASTERN BRANCH: 

 8 E. Lexington Street, Baltimore, Md. 



estimated that we have in the northwest, where the timber is large 

 and formerly considered too heavy for such conveyors, nearly 300 

 trucks and trailers hauling for distances of six or seven miles. 



It has been demonstrated that a five-ton truck with an eight and 

 one-half-ton double bunk trailer can average carrying of 4,000 

 feet per load. Many loads of 5,000 and sometimes 6,000 feet are 

 transported on this equipment on good private roads, as officials 

 are usually wisely exacting in the weights of loads hauled on pub- 

 licly constructed rights of way. This calls attention to the advisa- 

 bility of securing as light equipment as consistent with safety iir 

 maximum loads, the weight of equipment being considered part of 

 a road load. A truck and trailer will carry an average load of 

 4.000 feet, can be loaded in from 10 to 15 minutes, will travel one 

 mile in 10 minutes, unload in 10 minutes; therefore, it is not diffi- 

 cult for one experienced in logging to analyze his particular opera 

 tion, secure the proper logging and hauling equipment and have it 

 all well balanced and associated. 



It seems hardly necessary to emphasize the fact that very 

 efficient loading facilities should be installed both for speed and 

 care in placing the load so as not to injure the equipment. Either 

 the loading boom or duplex loader are jireferable in large oisera- 

 tions, the boom being satisfactory and less expensive. Where the 

 truck hauls the load np grade it is necessary to place a sufficient 

 portion of the load on the truck to force traction for the drive 

 wheels. Where the loads are down grade, it is advisable to place 

 65 per cent or 70 per cent on the trailer, having an extra trailer to 

 be substituted in case of accident or damages, as the initial cost, 

 expense and maintenance and repair is much less on the trailer 

 than truck. 



Should gi'ades appear prohibitive it is easy to install a donkey 

 engine as a snubbing device with either air valves on the cylin- 

 ders or a brake drum. This engine hauls the truck and trailer up 

 on the return trip. The cost of operating this is largely offset by 



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lack of using mechanism of truck and in the saving of gas and oil. 



Care should be taken in unloading to keep the top logs from 

 dropping on the bunk when the outside bunk log is released. A 

 successful way is to have the truck and trailer driven one side on 

 ■ 111 incline about one foot high, having the brow skid very close 

 to tlie bunk and about the same elevation when the truck is tilted. 

 In this position the chock blocks can be released on the opposite 

 side with perfect safety. A jill poke is then placed against the 

 bunk log on the elevated side whereupon the truck is advanced 

 or backed, forcing the whole load off as a unit, almost universally 

 keeping the top logs from dropping on the bunks and causing 

 damage. 



Unloading on public wharves or roads, where no permanent 

 incline can be used, is accomplished by placing a portable wedge- 

 shaped timber in front of outside trailer wheel and driving upon 

 it. The old system of placing a crotch line from brow skid under 

 whole load and elevating by power is a safe method, but not at all 

 necessary. 



Logging can, therefore, be seen to be the one branch of lumber 

 industry which puts the motor truck to its hardest test. Operating 

 conditions in all parts of the country where timber is cut are so 

 diversified and severe that only the motor truck manufactured, 

 installed and maintained correctly can operate successfully in this 

 difficult work. 



Wisconsin to Have Forestry Meeting 



The Xurtheni Hemluck and Hardwood M:uiufactuiers ' Association 

 is co-operating Avith a score or more of the leading civic, commercial, 

 financial, industrial and agrecultural organizations of Wisconsin in 

 supporting a conference on state forestry and general development, 

 called for Monday and Tuesday, March 28 and 29, at Milwaukee. The 

 conference will hold four general sessions, and the program will in- 

 clude adilresses liy jirominent lumbermen, manufacturers, forestry 

 experts and leaders in agriculturtl development. 



