98 BULLETIN Til, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Wages per day. 
Hook tender $6.00 
Rigging slinger 4.00 
Rigging slinger 3. 50 
Rigging slinger 3.25 
Sniper 3. 00 
Chaser 3. 25-3. 50 
Signalman 2.50 
Butt chain block tender 3.25 
Fireman 2.75 
Wood buck |2.50 
Woodchopper 2. 50 
Engineer 4. 00 
Log brander 2. 50 
During a part of the year oil was burned in two of the three yard- 
ers, which reduced the crew of the oil-burning yarders by three 
men, viz, the fireman, wood buck, and woodchopper. The number 
and wages of the men, of course, varied some. 
The yarding chances from the standpoint of the ground were for 
the most part as good as can be found in this region, the average 
maximum yarding distance amounting to about 800 feet. Seldom, 
if ever, was the ground steep enough to cause the logs to run. Not 
less than two logs were yarded at a turn, sometimes three or four, 
and occasionally as many as five. 
The forest is about 150 years of age and is cutting about 80,000 
feet per acre, the trees averaging about 28 inches in diameter at 
breast height. About 95 per cent of the stand is Douglas fir, the rest 
hemlock. 
The yarders were 10 by 11 inch, compound-geared engines, up-to- 
date in design, in good repair, and were driven at practically their 
maximum speed. 
Yarders Xos. 1 and 2 handled longer legs than yarders Xo. 3, 
which was i due to different methods of marketing. Logs 90 feet 
or more in length were yarded by these two yarders, the average 
length amounting to 60 feet. The maximum lengths handled by 
yarder Xo. 3 were 40 feet, averaging about 36 feet. 
The effect of handling long logs is shown in the following sum- 
mary of the yarding output. It will be noted that the daily output 
of yarder Xo. 3, which handles short, logs, was 15,000 feet less than 
that of yarder Xo. 2, and 17,000 feet less than yarder Xo. 1. "While 
it can not be claimed that the difference in output was entirely due 
to differences in the log lengths, similarity in the logging .chances, 
methods, equipment, and the like, suggest strongly that this is the 
reason. The three yarders were of the same size, make, and age. 
The chances from the standpoint of timber, ground, and yarding 
distances were practically the same, and the average daily outputs 
