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commonly fails to do. xVs often as not the logs are banked in a mud 

 hole. Sometimes 300 or 400 logs are left scattered all about the 

 yard, so that a man and team are kept busy in getting them to the 

 log carriage. When no team is available, the logs are often rolled 

 by hand over slabs, rocks, and bark. The mill is stopped and all 

 hands are called on to help. 



This is surely an unnecessary waste of time and energy. Logs 

 should never be dumped in a place from which it will cost at least 

 half as much more to get them to the leg deck as it did to load and 

 haul them to the yard. Instead they should be piled on flat sl\;idways 

 in the yard, with ends touching the log road. The hauling team 

 should then be able to keep the saw supplied directly from the 

 woods or from the logs in stock. If the main log deck is kept full 

 all the time the mill is running, there is little chance that logs will 

 litter the yard. 



NARROV/-GAUGE LUMBER LORRY TRACK. 



A narrow-gauge lorry track is almost indispensable to a small mill. 

 The track should be at least 700 feet in length and so constructed 

 that one man can shove a loaded lorry or car over it. The lumber 

 piles should be built on either side of the track, to enable the lorry 

 man to unload the lumber in front of the pile which its grade 

 calls for. Slabs can be moved by the same means. A switch and 

 double track just outside the mill will enable the off-bearer to load 

 an empty car while the lorry man is unloading another in the yard 

 and piling some of the lumber. Lorry trucks have a 26|-inch gauge 

 and 2i-inch tread. The axles are of steel and can be used in wood 

 frames without boxes. The size of the wheels varies from 8 to 16 

 inche>, the weight from 110 to 262 pounds. 



From a labor-saving standpoint the lorry track is one of the most 

 important adjuncts to a portable mill outfit. It revolutionizes com- 

 pletely the old manner of handling lumber and does away with the 

 unseemly clutter of slabs, lumber, and other debris around and in the 

 mill. 



When water is available a log pond and jack slip are also very 

 desirable. 



SETTING UP A PORTABLE MILL. 



For foundation timbers place two pieces 10 by 10 inches by 14 feet 

 long on either side of the saw pit (which is supposed to be 3 or 4 feet 

 deep and underneath the husk frame) well bedded in the ground and 

 extending out under the track stringers, taking care to have the one 

 that is under the front end of the husk (where the sawyer stands) 

 placed back far enough to clear the largo gear wheel and so that the 

 swinging stirrup will not strike it. One piece 6 by 6 inches by 8 

 feet, is saddled into the two big pieces spanning the saw pit and 



