for if he kas sufficient breadth of training he can study up any side 

 issues should the need ever actually arise. 



At the same time he is gaining his technical training he should be 

 gaining practical experience. Every vacation should be spent in the 

 woods. If he has never had much woods experience it would be well for 

 him to spend his first summer in the National Forest Service. Here he 

 will learn the ways of the woods,, how to take care of himself in the forest, 

 how to work in the woods, and at the same time not have to stand the 

 long hours of a logging camp, nor be thrown in with the rough characters 

 sometimes found there. 



The next summer, however, he should break into a logging operation 

 in whatever capacity he is physically capable. He might get on the survey- 

 ing crew as axe man or chainman, or he might get in as a whistle man, a 

 swamper, or a grader. 



The following year if he is sufficiently mature he might well get a job 

 on the rigging or around the donkey. If he is still at the growing age 

 and is not strong and hardy he should not attempt this as it is a "man's 

 size" job. Some time in his career he should get experience in handling 

 the rigging and machinery of a logging operation for it will prove valuable 

 should he ever rise to an executive position. 



Upon leaving college the embryo engineer should try to get work upon 

 some engineering party in a logging company and gain more experience in 

 this sort of work, or if he is unable to get such a position further experience 

 gained along the operating side of the work will not be valueless. 



In work after leaving college a notebook should constantly be kept 

 for jotting down information about the industry, the cost of a certain spur, 

 the cost of a certain bridge, output of yarders, etc. No one can tell when 

 such information may be valuable. 



In line with fitting himself for his work he should keep up to date 

 on the improvements in the industry. This can be done to a certain extent 

 by taking the two lumber trade journals published on the coast, The 

 Timberman, and the West Coast Lumberman. If possible the sessions of 

 the Pacific Logging Congress should be attended. From time to time 

 different up to date operations should be visited, as many new points 

 can be learned in this way. It is broadening to travel about and see the 

 many different ways in which things may be done. 



The Life and Future of the Logging Engineer 



After all of this training what sort of a life does the logging engineer 

 lead and what may he expect of the future? In other words, what are 

 the advantages and disadvantages of being engaged in such a profession ? 



In the first place, the logging engineer leads a life which will certainly 

 not appeal to every person. The greater part of his time is spent out of 

 doors in the open and many times he must work out in all kinds of 

 weather. He will be expected, the same as everyone else in the operation, 

 to put in ten hours of work six days in the week, and at the same time 

 will have to use his head as well as his muscle. He will have to live 

 in a camp which may be comfortable, yet lacks some of the things which 

 he has been accustomed to believe the necessities of life. He will have 

 to eat at the common table, and while the food may be wholesome and 

 good, it will be cooked in huge masses and will not have the appetizing 

 flavors that a good housewife can put into it. He will have to mix with 



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