AMERICAN FORESTRY 



379 



WHEN traffic again reaches a normal quan- 

 tity much freight is going to pieces in tran- 

 sit by reason of insufficient packing unless a very 

 material improvement in packing is effected." 



The above paragraph from the report of a divi- 

 sion freight agent of one of the leading railroads 

 of the country will suggest to many business men 

 the importance of checking up on their present 

 methods of packing their goods for shipment. 



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At the left are shown a Jew specimens of faulty 

 crates by no means exceptional instances. You 

 will find scores of such crates at any freight ter- 

 minal, any time. They help pile up the claims for 

 damaged freight which every year mount into 

 mdlions of dollars. 



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The services of a Weyerhaeuser crating engineer 

 are available to any shipper who thinks that his 

 packing methods might be improved. 



Does the Proper Packing of Goods Pay? 



ASK any jobber or retail mer- 

 chant 'svhat he thinks about 

 the value of proper packing. 



The chances are he will name 

 those shippers whose products al- 

 ways arrive in good condition 

 ready for immediate use or sale. 

 No needless repair costs; no dam- 

 age claims and allowances to hag- 

 gle over; no lost parts to replace. 

 He will probably tell you that 

 this is one reason why he likes to 

 do business with them. 



SHIPPERS in all lines are find- 

 ing that proper packing makes 

 selling easier. The elimination of 

 damage claims and allowances 

 speeds collections and increases 

 profits. Very frequently, too, they 

 have found it possible, through sci- 

 entific crate desig^n, to reduce, ma- 

 terially, their packing costs. 



One manufacturer has saved 28% 

 in lumber on one crate, 30% on an- 

 other, and more than 50% on a 

 third. His total savings in lumber 

 and shipping weight amount to 

 over ten thousand dollars a year. 

 And in each instance the redesigned 

 crate has proved more efficient 

 than the one formerly used. 



Proper crate construction is no 

 longer a matter of guesswork. The 

 engineering principles upon which 

 it is based are now established by 

 the experience, observation and ex- 

 periments of the U.S. Forest Prod- 

 ucts Laboratory, the railroads 



and many large shippers as well. 



In the same manner that mer- 

 chandise is being designed, tested, 

 redesigned and tried out, so, too, 

 are the crates which are to carry 

 these goods being designed and 

 built to meet successfully the haz- 

 ards of transportation at a mini- 

 mum cost. 



The Weyerhaeuser organization 

 has for years been at work on this 

 problem collecting and analyzing 

 the facts, so that every foot of lum- 

 ber it sells for crating purposes 



THESE illus- 

 trations show 

 how a few im- 

 portant details of 

 construction can 

 increase strength 

 of a crate. In the 

 upper picture 

 note that frame 

 members are held 

 bytwo nails driv- 

 en in a row. while in the other three nails 

 are used and they are staggered. Greater 

 holding power is thus obtained and danger 

 from splitting is materially reduced. 



The double mitre on the diagonal brace 

 shown below also gives a bearing against 

 the upright frame member, thus trans- 

 mitting any thrust it might receive directly 

 to the frame of the crate rather than to its 

 f jstenings as would be the case above. 



The proper size, thickness and kind 

 of lumber, and the size and spacing of 

 nails will vary 

 with the require- 

 ments of each in- 

 d ividual crate. 

 Thj strength of a 

 crate can often 

 be increased 

 when necessary 

 without increas- 

 ing the amount 

 of lumber used. 



will deliver 100% service and at 

 the same time effect the greatest 

 saving for the shipper. 



As a result, this organization 

 now offers to the industrial user of 

 crating lumber the services of a 

 practical cratingengineer. Without 

 cost to you we will send this man 

 to your plant, to check up your 

 crates, and with the co-operation 

 of your shipping department to re- 

 design your shipping containers 

 to fit in each case the products to 

 be packed. 



Lumber is the standard material 

 for shipping containers. For this 

 purpose, this organization offers to 

 factory and industrial buyers, from 

 its fifteen distributing points, ten 

 different kinds of lumber of uni- 

 form quality and in quantities ade- 

 quate to any shipper's needs. 



A BOOKLET, "Better Crating," 

 which outlines the principles 

 of crate construction and explains 

 the personal service of Weyer- 

 haeuser engineers, will be sent on 

 request to manufacturers who use 

 crating lumber. 



Weyerhaeuser Forest Products 

 are distributed through the estab- 

 lished tradechannels by the Weyer- 

 haeuser Sales Company, Spokane, 

 Washington, with branch offices 

 at 208 So. La Salle Street, Chicago; 

 1015 Lexington BIdg., Baltimore; 

 and 4th and Robert Sts., St. Paul; 

 and with representatives through- 

 out the country. 



WEYERHAEUSER FOREST PRODUCTS 



SAINT PAUL* MINNESOTA 



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