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TERIIINAT SATES BtD6. Porllond 5, Oregon ATwoter 9544

WHOLESALE LUMBER, DOUGLAS FIR

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WESTERN RED CEDAR

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Send Your lnquiries To Our Portland Clftice They Will Receive Our Prompl At"tention lumber are driven under a hoist which lifts the load in the air and puts it on a conveyor chain, from which it is stacJ<ed acccrding to size and grade. Three Ross Fork-lift trucks and two Ross Carriers, or straddle buggies, augmented by a smaller lift truck, whisk the packages of lumber around the piant in jig time.

On the spacious storage yard, which covers seventeen acres, the green lumber is stacked to dry, where it remains for six months. After seasoning every stick of lumber, it is moved through the new automatic Moore Cross-circulating dry kilns. These modern kilns are big-eight tracks rvide and 120 feet long. Heat in every chamber is automatically controlled and a record of the temperatures is kept throughout the entire drying process.

Before the lumber emerges from the kilns, its moisturc is checked by an electric moisture meter, to be sure the wood is of the exactly correct moisture content. Kiln'cars are moved to the two story mill by an electric tfansfer. Loads come in at ground level and are raised to the flooring plant on the second story with a hydraulic lift which brings the boards up to the proper level for feeding to gang rip saws. As each layer is moved the lift automatically raises the load so that the level remains constant. The gang rip saws the boards to proper flooring strip rvidth. Then a planer knocks off part of the surface which provides uniform thickness before they reach the side matcher. The edgings drop down a chute to the first floor where they are made into dowels, ladder rungs, moulding or smaller furniture parts.

The heart of the entire flooring op..ution is a Woods 502-M all-electric side-matcher. This new machine operates at the amazing speed of 370 linear feet per minute. On this machine is a little wheel that is mighty important to every man in ihe place. It counts each foot of lumber that goes by. When the flooring factory got under way about three years ago they were turning out about 80,000 linear feet of flooring in a ten-hour day. The Lingolds called the men together and offered a bonus, based on .production rl{ 100,000 feet as a minimum task day. Although the figures seeme<l high to the men at the time, they now exceed this task every day. The men soon became conscious of the fact that they were not only working for the management, but were also r'vorking for themselves. The figures went up and up, and the peak production for one day now stands a,t 215,237 linear feet for a ten-hour run ! That figure is just short of 360 linear feet a minute-an enviable record in an.ybody's league.

Two sets of end-matchers are needed to carry on effective rvork by the Woods 502-M machine. Trfre finished product under the Texoak brand compares with flooring made by only the larger, more modern flooring plants in America. The men who make the company click have built a business which started from scratch in 1945. Today their annual volume of business totals over one million dollars !

Texoak's head is John Lingold, a native of Alabama, who has made Texas his home since 1924. A soft spoken man, rvith keen eyes and hair graying at the temples, he looks more like a banker than a lumberman. He began his career in the logging woods and he knows the timber area