Classified Advertising

FOR SALE:4E" Stenner reslw

40 Hp motor, blower, sawdust tower. Max length of saw 7A' 8' , Mu< width of saw 5%" $30,000. Crestwood Lumber Co., 5127 Pennington Rd., Live Oak, Ca., 95953 (916) 695-3381.

REPRINTS of hardwood articles from The Merchant Magazine. Excellent for reference or training. Domestic Hardwoods, $10; Southeast Asian Hardwoods, $5; South American Hardwoods, $4; all three. $16. Send your check today including name and address to Hardwood Reprints c/o The Merchant Magazine, 4500 Campus Dr., suite 480, Newport Beach, Ca. 92660.

CONSLTLTANT-lumber yard operations. 33 years experience - 26 years as superintendent and director of operations for large So. Ca. lumber company. Responsibilities included: customer expediting, dispatching, yard layouts, hiring, production, vehicle and equipment purchasing and maintenance, etc. Will travel anywhere for expenses. Also available for seminar Fffi ipation GIf (2tD) 6SJS77, or-uilteeonsultant, P.O. Box 100, Oakhurst, Ca.93&.

Buildino -Produ&

CTASSIF!EDS

Call (714) 549-8393

(Continued from previous page) decking is seen as a good addition to the market as is treated fencing.

All feel that consurners need to know more about treated wood, especially the importance of the AWPB quality mark. Because most customers buy for the "green color" or appezuance, dealers think that there should be more industry oriented advertising to educate them on treatment levels and their proper uses.

Promotion, advertising and inhouse projects such as deck clinics vary from store to store. Ed Price Building Materials has two or three deck clinics a year and advertises in print, radio and tv throughout the

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500 a word, min. 25 words (25 words = $15), Phone number counts as onc word. Address counts as six words. Hcadlines and centcred copy ea. linc: $4. Box numbers and spocial borders: !4 ea. Col. inch rate: $rl0. Names of advertisers using a box numbcr ca4not be released. Address all replies to box numbcr shown in ad in care of Bulldlng Prcdncts lXgcst, 4lllXl Clnpns Dr., Sultc {tll, Ncwpori Berch, Ce. 9166|l. Make chocks payable to Cutlel Publlshlng, Inc. Mail copy to above address or call (714) 549-8t9t. Deadline for copy is the l5th of the month. PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY COPY.

CREOSOTE. PENIA. CCA

ARXLA FOREST PRODUCTS

P.O. Box 989, Rayville, L,a-71259 Mark Brown, owner (31t) 72E{4{Ir

WHOLESALE lumber & distribution center in Houston, Tk. Room to expand. Great potential. Reply to D.A., 665 San Jacinto Building, Houston, Tx. 77W2.

DISTRIBT.,TTORS WANTED FOR TOP QUALITY PAI\IEL DOOR,S

Made from the Finest

Philippine Mahogany & Rosewood

Available in: r Plain or Hand-carved

. Standard or Made to Order Designs

Shipped either: r Prefinished (Natural or Walnut Stain), or o Plain Sanded Finish

A division of: Ingasco, Incorporated

20 W-l2th Ave., Caloocan City Philippines

MARION PRESSURE TREATING CO.

Creosoted fence posts, timbers, barn poles and piling. Truckloads only. Marion Pressure Treating Plant, Rt. 3, Box zt0, Marion, La.7126O. (318) 2924511.

Tel: 361-l6ll to 361-1618

REMINDER: Payment musl accompany the copy you send in for classified ads. Just use the instructions above to figure the amount. When you call in ads, we'll tell you the amount that must be sent for lhe ad.

Timber Products Inspection, Inc.

NAIIONAL AND INTERNATTONAL INSPECTION AND QUALITY CONTROL SER. VICES FOR AII WOOD PRODUCTS, AND ALL -SPECIES, TNCLUDING GRADEMARKING OF LT,JMBER UNDER THE ALSC PROGRAM, QUALTTY MARISNG OFTREATED LUMBM UNDq TUE AWPB PROGRAM,AND QUAJTY CONTROL/. QUALITY MARKING PRoGRAMS FoR FIRE RETARDANT TREATEb Wq9,D-IBqq E9, 4ND BUIII,ING LOGS. SERVICES INCLUDE TRAINING, QUAIJ- Ty MoNtroRrNG, cERTrFrcATtoN, sAMpuNG, RErNspEcrrox, specricArron WBTTING AND/OR CLARIFICATTON AND CONSULTATION ON LUMBER WKTIINij ANT'/(,K (;LATUFT(:ATI()N AND ON (r_E4rEP1qN!BE4rEp), TRUSSES, pLywOOD, POLES, CROSS rrES, FINGER. JOINT, I.AII{TNATED STOCK, AND BUILDTNG LOGS.

Obttuarles

Illck Fcnn, retired purchasing agcnt for Stottlemycr and Shoemaker Lumber Co., Saiasota, Fl., died Jan.23, l9&4, after a long illness.

A membcr of the lumbcr industry since 1939, he had been employed bY Stottlenrya and Shoemaker from 1968 until five years ago when he retired. Hc scrved several times as dis' trict director for the Florida Lumbcr and Building Materials Asociation.

Mr. Fenn is survived by his widow, Wanda, two daughters and a son.

Dealer Interview

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Baton Rouge area. Stegall advertises its deck progmm, but doesn't advertise to its big farm market because "it's just there." Georgia-Pacific concentrates on educational materials and sponsoring deck packages.

TREATED I'IOOD

(Contlnucd from page 9) important, as consumer look for information on thc capabilitics of treated lumber and ways to use the product. ln some markets, retailers maY have to expand their inventory and carry different types of treatd lumber in order to compete. Generally, the following proportion of #l grade, .40 treated lumber is recom' mended by Willamette and its distributors, according to Edwards: l/3 truck load of 2x4s,2/3 trtck load of 2x6s, I truck load of the following mixed materials: 2x8s, 2xl0s, 2xl2s, 4x4s, 4x6s. incrcasc sdcs. Al with any new product, information is constantly changing. a lot of emphasis on

A retailer's inventory is an important consideration. The best time to darelop an inventory depends on the marka conditions and the sizc of the retailcr.

"Some retailers may want to buy their treated lumber in the fall or early winter, when building slows down, because they can get the products they want at a better price," says Anderson. "On the other hand, other dealers prefer not to carry an inventory through the winter, so they'll buy in the spring to prepare for summer demand. Some carry a basic inventorY of ?.x4, 2x6 and 4x4s with specialty iterns as they need them."

"Most of our retail customers stock #l grade. It's a better looking wood and doesn't cost much more than {2," says Tobin. "lf You're going to buy treated lumber, you mieht as well buy the best, and #1 seems to be the preferred material."

AWPB's "cloverleaf ."

Tleated lumber can be a growth axea for the retailer. Providing knowledge of the product for the consumer is essential in order to slrlp Attowoy o rc3ponsl- blc, scrulccorlentcd truclrlng rystem operotcd by c relloble, uell-€3tobllshed compony you con ;ely upon. tfr/b shlp to and from the tl8 con' tlnental states and Into ontarlo and ouebec, canacla wlthout Inter' llnlng. coast-to-coast forest products haullng ls our speclalw.

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