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'Equipment for Cheoper logging' Discussed by R. G. LeTournequ

V:rncouver, R. C.-(Jan. 15)-"If tl.re pionecring and forcsight of North Arnerican log{ers continue at the present rate, it will be a challenge to science fiction itself to keep pace with developments in the industry," said 1". G. Evangelist, clomestic and export sales manager for R. G. I-eTourr.reau, Inc., one of the world's leading logging equipment tnanufacturers, before the l5th annual Truck l-oggers convetrtion here today.

Mr. Ilvangelist predicted a nurnber of clevelopm'ents in cquipment of the future. Among then'r: ment of urechat'rical harvcstcrs for pulp-logging the Southeast. Other harvesters rvill later bc dcveloped for the larger trecs of the Northwcst.

1. Because the greatest arezr for cost-saving possibilities is from the stump to the mill, loggers rvithin the foreseeable future will go to larger loading devices anci larger transporters in orcler to handle morc units per man-hour.

3. N,Ietho<ls rvill be discoverecl to elimit.rate tl.rc haulage of u'aste. First step hcre r,vill probably be the conversion of logs into semi-hnishecl products while still in thc iorcst.

C)nly one note of warning was included in the l-eTourneau e*ecuiive's address. "The logging industry rnust be prepared to participatc in thc cost of development of specialized machinery if thcse advances are to keep pace with the forwarcl progrc,ss of other industrics," he declared. "Thg tlay is, not iar bff when all equipment used in the woocls lvill have been designed specifically for the logger. It will require increasing numbers of pioneers, with foresight and courage, to lead the inclustry into its destined new heyday of tonlorrou'."

2. There is presently pioneering activity in the clevelop- (Tcll tkent, \ou solu it in Thc Cali,fornia Ltt,ntber Mctcl'nnt)