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Long-Bell's New'Lumbet'-Jqck' Hqndles Logs Like Mqtchsticks

Weed, California-When George (better known as "Spike") Yandell quit ranching back in 1937 to go to work in the lumber business in Weed, he little suspected that he would someday step into the saddle of something like the huge Lumber-Jack t.c.t. RAIL CARGO

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he now pilots around. Yandell is the operator of the new, big log handler which rumbles about the log storage area at Weed Branch of International Paper Company's Long-Bell Division. The big machine handles logs like they were matchsticks. Forty-one feet long, the rig weighs more than 45 tons. It can move a load up to 30 tons. Motorized muscle of the machine is a 3OOhorsepower Cummins diesel engine. The Lumber-Jack was built by Wagner Tractor, Inc. of Portland, Oregon.

"She handles nice and easv." Yandell reports after several months of operating the Lumber-Jack. "And, surprisingly, it's a Drettv smooth ride."

^The-big log stacker can, and sometimes does, take an entire load of logs directly off a truck. Ordinary procedure, however, at Long-Bell's 22-acre log storage area is for a crane to sort logs by species into bins. Then Yandell and his machine empty the bins by either taking the logs to the pond or to the decking area. When logs are needed from the deck, Yandell undecks and dumps them into the pond where they are floated to the slip to go either to the sawmill or plywood plant.

Trucks and railroad cars which contain the soecies the mill is cutting are dumped directly into the pond by the conventional "A-frame" log dump.

Before he started herding the log stacker, Yandell operated the crane at the log storage area. He notices quite an improvement in the job the new machine does compared with the old method of cold decking with the crane.

"The work is a lot n-rore efficient with this new piece of equipment." he said. "as well as easier."

IP's Long-Bell Division also has another giant log handler in action at Chelatchie, Washington, where the company is building a new plywood plant and lumber mill operation. The Chelatchie machine is a 65-ton LeTourneau log handler which hoists around loads up to 50 tons.