Standard Lumber Units - A Study

When the Lumber Industry Merchandising Council had its recent meeting one of the topics was a proposed study of materials handling and Standard Lumber Units. (See LIMC story on Page 19 of this issue).

An idea of the complexity of such a problem can be seen from the following outline below of the project:

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Present sizes are wrong and must be changed.

The present size was developed without full agreement between shipper and users.

That the new dry and green sizes will become standards within 1964.

If a restudy is indicated on the sizes of lumber units, certain assumptions must be (5) made at the beginning.

That the small survey reported by Reed is not a statistical sample large enough for any accurate projection.

The retailers, in the majority of cases, do not know the actual cost of hand