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(Continued from Page 36)' lengths which could have been used at a considerable saving and with no difficulty. An additional 1,046 feet, or approximately 12 per cent---of short lengths 4 feet and 5he11s1-66uld have been cut from odd lengths.

Thus approximately 41 per cent of the framing and sheathing lumber used in this house could have been odd length lumber.

A total of 1,556 pieces were used. Of these, 315 should have been cut from odd lengths. An additional 579 pieces could have ,been cut from either odd or even lengths. Thus substantially more than half of the pieces used should or could have been cut from odd lengths.

The detailed breakdown of the pieces of lumber used covers six single-spaced typewritten pages. A few examples will shcrv the extent of the on-the-job trimming required, as well as the waste which would have been eliminated if cdd length pieces had been used.

There were two 6 x 8 beams, one of which was 16' 3" long, the other 16' 5". These should have been trimmed from a 17' beam; instead they were trimmed from an 18' beam.

There were fourteen 2 x 4 studs g 10" and fifteen 2 x 4 studs 67 11". These should have been cut from a 7' piece, but were cut from an 8' piece-with avoidable waste resulting. Twenty-seven pieces qf 1 x 6 sheathing were 12' 8" long and should have been trimmed from a 13'piece.

Going a step further, it was found that in numerous instances no trimming at all would have been required had odd lengths been available.

There were, for instance, nine 2 x 8 ceiling joists 13' long-which had to ,be trimmed from 14' pieces. Four pieces of 1 x 8 sheathing were 9 long. One piece of 1 x 8 sheathing was 13'; two were 15'; eight were l7'; one was 19'.

This sarnpling is sufficient to show that far from being "not acceptable," a reasonable number of odd length pieces would materially reduce on-the-job work.

Similar figures were found to apply in the two other units examined. These units (four rooms apiece) were connected, and together had a total of 10,969 feet of framing and sheathing lumber. Of this total, 2,953 feet, or approximately 27 per cent, should have been odd lengths. An additional 690 feet, or approximately 6 per cent-short lengths 4 feet and shorter-could have been cut from odd lengths.

A little pencil work shows that in these two units ap-

For the three units, the average of odd length lumber which might have been used was approximately 36 per cent. Clearly this indicates that a substantial saving is possible, and that in some instances odd lengths are a decided convenience.

From many years of experience in the lumber industry I am firmly convinced that we use too much lumber of too good grade in nearly all construction. With lumber now occupying a relatively higher price position in the building material field, the industry must give increased consideration to the proper use of lumber.

As part of this we should adopt wherever possible the use of odd lengths. Resistance to this move is only to be expected. N{ajor improvements of any kind have met rvith stout objections at their inception. It will be recalled that the adoption of grade-marking and of the American Lumber Standards were strongly opposed by both manufacturers and distributors, both of these forward steps are now generally approved.

The lumber manufacturer must produce from his timber the best grades and specifications possible. In the interest of conservation he must find a market for the entire product his logs will produce.

In recent years the lumber distributors have made a definite contribution toward conservation by the acceptance and distribution of random lengths and random grades. Through their resourcefulness a proper use has in most cases been found for the entire product of the mill.

It is the hope of the manufacturing industry that the distributors will continue to render this very valuable service and that they rvill in addition assist in the further savings made possible by reasonable use of odd lengths.

New Redwood Remanufacturing Plant Near Asti, Calif., to Start Soon

San Francisco, Calif., May 3, 1948--4, neu- red'rvood remanufacturing plant is being constructed by the Rounds and Kilpatrick Lumber Company, a ne\\' corporation, just north of Asti, California, and four miles south of Cloverdale, or-r Highway 101, and on the Nclrthn'estern ltacific Railroad.

The company has purchased approximatell' 44 acres of land from Fred Vadon and is installing the follow"ng cquipment: heavy-duty horizontdl Turner resaw, lumber sorter, Rees Blorv Pipe Company refuse burner, Stetson Ross high-speed planer, beveled siding resa\\r, and other ttnits required for such a plant.

Plans incltrde construction of dry kilns, later this year.

Construction was started in January, but the rvork has been retarded by u'et r'veather, delaying the grading, rocking and oiling of a large part of the property.

This plant u'ill l-randle lumber from a number of miils located in Nlendocino .and Humboldt counties. Already there is a considerable amount of lumber being air-driccl at the plant site.

The res:rrv and sorter should be in operation u'ithin the next two or three weeks; the matcher rvill be in operation soon thereafter. When the plant is operating at full capacity, it will employ 25 to 40 men per S-hour shift. I'lans, now, are to run the plant trvo S-hour shifts as sool1 ns possible.

C. W. Courter, 'in'ho is constructing the plant, u.ill bc irr charge of its operations as superintendent.

Head oF6ce of the company u,ill be at 201 Crocker Ruilcling, San Francisco, California.

Independent Lumbermen Endorse Upping Federal Forest Funds

Portland, Oregon, May l-Urging that appropriations for forest road developrnent be increased b.y tn,o million dollars, \\restern Forest Industries Association 1-ras addressed letters to the Congressional delegation of \\restern states which have important timber resources. The Association is regional in character and made up mainly of the smaller and medium-sized sa.rvmill and logging operators.

In the letters, which are over the signature of R. T.

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Titus, executive secretary of the Association. it is argued that :

"If irublic access roads are built ltidders for stumpage need finance 'lvith their ou'n funds orrly those roads from the main public road to their particular operation, and this permits sale of stumpage in smaller ltlocks rvhich can be financed b1-the average as rvell as the largest operators. A proper system of access roads permits the spreading of harvesting operations over a large area insteacl of concentrating them in one location. \\re urge that apllropriati<ln for Forest Road Development be increased to at least l2 rnillion dollars. (The recommencled appropriation \\'as uncler $10,000,000.) "

The Association also recommended no cut in the budgeted am<iunt for cruising, appraising and sale of national forest tir.nber so that the liorest Serr-ice u-ould be able to make up sorne small sales r'vithin the reach of the independents. Such practice, it rvas pointed out in the letter, rvould reduce the 1>ressure on imuratttre second grou'th timber.

The letters also urged no cut for the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin.

Appointments Announced for Two Maior Forestry Positions

Portland, Ore, Mav 7Shifts of two major western forestry Positions were revealed this rveek with the appointment of Stuart Moir as forestry counsel for ihe Western Forestry and Conservation association and of Ernest L. Kolbe as chief forester for the Western Pine Association sltcceeding Moir.

Both appointments are effective July 1.

dustry's forest activities in the 11 western states and South Dakota and will be assisted by forest engineers in the several districts of the Western Pine region. The association's forest program includes the preparation of forest management plans for private timberland owners, development of practical woods practices for handling timber as a crop, and directing the Tree Farm program rvithin the western pine region.

Moir in his new post will direct forest activities for one of the oldest and largest groups of its kind in the United States. Now in its 39th year, the Western Forestry artd Conservation association lists membership throughout the United States and Canada.

Following a year-and-a-half long study of Scandinavian forestry management and operations, Moir began his forestry career with the Laurentide Paper Company, Ltd., at Grand Mere, Quebec, where he developed plans for pulp operation. Among the first to be interested in the use of aircraft in forest fire detection and woods surveys, he spent several years in commercial aerial surveys and engineering in Canada, United States, Mexico and Central America.

Ernest L. Kolbe

Moir, for the past eight years head of the pine association's forestry department and for 25 years a prominent figure in North American forestry circles, r,r'ill succeed E. T. F. Wohlenberg who recently resigned his Western Forestry post to become general manager of the Masonite corporation's Ukiah, Calif., operation.

Kolbe since 1944 has been southern Oregon-California district forest engineer for the Western Pine Association in Klamath Falls, Ore., and Sacramento, Calif. He has been active in western forestry since 1928.

Graduating from the University of Minnesota school of forestry in 1927, Kolbe earned his master's degree at the Cornell University forestry school the following year and became associate silviculturist with the Pacific Northwest Experiment station in Portland. He later was placed irr charge of the Pringle Falls experimental forest near Bend and the Blue Mountain experimental forest near Baker, Ore. He was also dendrologist of the Wind River Arboretum, Wash.

From 1940 to 1942 he was project leader of the U. S. Department of Agriculture flood control survey in California and during the war served as an ecologist for the Emergency Rubber project in Los Angeles.

Kolbe is vice chairman of the Northern California section of the Society of American Foresters, of which he is a senior member, and a member of the Ecological Society of America. As head of the Western Pine association's forestry department, he will counsel the pine in-

Moir later became district forest engineer in California for the Western Pine association and then associate regional conservator in the southwest for the soil conservation service. Subsequently he rvas director of soil conservation.for the Department of Interior, leaving that post in 1940 to become chief forester for Western Pine in Portland.

Moir is a director of the Pacific Logging congress, Keep Oregon Green and Keep Washington Green committees, and a senior member of the Society of American Foresters and the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers.

New Plcning Mll

L. S. Burns and Son are installing' a new planing mill in Oakdale, Calif., and rvill work in conjunction with Wm. Kaufman, dry.kiln operator. They expect to handle some 10,000,000 feet of lumber a year through their combined operations. The planing mill will produce finished lumber to the specifications of the buyers. At this time they <io not intend processing the finished lumber.

Fire Dcmrages Scrn Frcrncisco Ycrrd

Fire damaged the yard of Goodman-Diller Co., retail lumber and building material dealers, 445 Fay Shore Boulevard, San Francisco, April 21.

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