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unloading when yard labor is utilized. That cost will vary depending upon the condition of the material when it is received and the placing of the individual stacks in storage. Basically, something is wrong with lumber unit sizes due to the fact that more dealers have not turned to it to lower their unloading cost.

A certain percentage of dealers and mills will never go to units of lumber in their operation.

Scope Of The Project

For any project of this magnitude to have the desired results, which in this case is broad acceptance and use of banded lumber units, it must be based entirely on the economic factors influencing each of the three parties:

The using retailer

The wholesaler

The manufacturer and shipper

In each caseo it must reduce his cost in dollars and cents; i.e., automation at the mill, more efficient use of mechanical equipment at both locations and permit tJre resale of the units by the wholesaler and retailer with minimum split units.

Program Of Study

A. To date, no group has within its records a complete knowledge of unit shipments. An attempt should be made by:

Working with the manufacturers that have developed and are shipping their own unit sizes;

Follow these through to the users to determine what's good about this size, what's bad;

Determine if existing mill facilities influenced the size and design of the units they now sell rather than using the standard units.

B. Study car loadings to determine if the incentive freight rate allowance efiects specifying standard lumber units. If so, to what extent? What will be the problem in this area with lt/2" dry lumber units with their reduced weights?

C. Studying the retail operations to deterrnine if there is, within the industry, a minimum standard unit size to eliminate. within reason, the necessity of breaking the received unit into a deliverable unit.

D. Conducting a large simple survey among the receivers of lumber units to determine the one outstanding thing they dislike about present sizes. This would include receivers of manufacturer developed sizes also. Each respondent would be requested to furnish the size and type of existing material handling equipment to see if a correlation exists between their dislikes and the equipment they have purchased. (Have (Continued

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