LOGGING IN THE DOUGLAS FIE REGION. 
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as $0.04 per thousand feet. To get a correct figure, one would have 
to keep a careful record for three or four years. By no other means 
would it be possible to brush out the errors that creep into inventories 
of used equipment. Even a figure secured in this way would not fit 
all conditions. The above figure is intended to take care of the oil 
used in connection with the operation of felling and bucking and the 
supplies used by the filer, as well as the saws, axes, sledges, wedges, 
etc., used by the fallers and buckers. 
The following statement which gives the estimated cost of equip- 
ment and supplies worn out, lost, or consumed in connection with the 
work of one set of fallers and three buckers in a season, indicates the 
probable life of the different kinds of equipment used. The following 
assumptions were made : (1) That one set of fallers, working 25 days 
per month for a season of 8 months, will fell 5,000,000 feet of timber; 
(2) that three buckers will be necessary to buck 5,000,000 feet of tim- 
ber in addition to the down timber in the same period. 
Equipment and supplies used up in a season. 
2 falling saws 
4 bucking saws 
5 saw handles 
2 falling axes 
3 swamping axes 
40 1-pound falling wedges 
60 1-pound bucking wedges 
1 1 0-pound falling sledge 
3 8- pound bucking sledges 
2 dozen axe and sledge handles. 
2 iron shoes (springboard) 
Oil and supplies 
Item. 
Total cost. 
Cost per thousand feet. 
Cost. 
Unit. 
S7.20 
6.60 
.65 
1.00 
1.00 
.25 
.25 
3.00 
2.40 
3.60 
.60 
Total. 
S14. 40 
26.40 
3.25 
2.00 
3.00 
10.00 
15.00 
3.00 
7.20 
7.20 
1.20 
50.00 
142. 65 
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FILING. 
In times past, the fitting of the saws was done by the fallers and 
buckers. Now it is ordinarily done by filers who are regularly em- 
ployed at this work. All camps employ one filer ; the larger camps, 
two. If the operation is large and scattered, three filers are some- 
times necessary. In a general way, one filer can do the work in a 
camp having an output of 150,000 feet per day or less; two are neces- 
sary if the output exceeds this figure. 
The number of saws that a filer should sharpen in a day varies with 
the ability of the filer, the character of the chance, and the length of 
time the saws are used before they are filed. Taking it straight 
through, a filer sharpens from 10 to 12 saws per day. The number 
is frequently as high as 16 saws per day. 
