New Regulafions Announced For Shipping

The Association of American Railroads has authorized the first stakeless flat car lumber load for unrestricted use by shippers.

The specifications for the new load-for lumber seven feet or over-\r'ere "published" as Fig. 6-,4' of Section 5, A. A. R. loading rules, on Jan. 11, 1962, in a circular letter to member railroads.

The Fig. 6-A load was developed by interested shippers with the cooperation of the A. A. R. and Signode Steel Strapping Co. Signode lumber specialists, engineers, and representatives were involved directly or indirectly in practically all of the more than 300 test shipments made.

The new load is a consolidation of the minimum stub stake Fig. 6-8 load, u'hich was approved by the A. A. R. last April, and the A. A. R. experimental Fig. 6-C load, which was authorized for testing about two months earlier.

"The best features of both," says R. G. Patterson, Sig- node's Forest Products Industry Manager, "are combined in the nerv load. The A. A. R. action is the culmination of three years of efiort to develop a load that offers the ultimate in loading', transporting, and handling economies for both shippers and receivers."

The elimination of stakes in Fie. 6-A. reduces lumber dunnage by as much as 300 board feet. Because the specifications do not limit the amount of vacant space aCross the car, it is no longer necessary to construct customfitted ladder braces and trusses to fill out center gaps in the load.

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The arrangement of packages, together with pile straps and load strips, unitizes the 6-,{ load around a series of vertical load stabilizers and horizontal separators and permits the load to "float" as one unit under impact. Longitudal guide rails placed against each side at the base of the load prevent lateral movement.

Because the load consists of str:rpped packages, it can be made up in less time. The receiver need only cut the load and pile straps aud remove the lumber packages with mechanical equipment.

ART SAYS: "Why not make our centrollq locateil uarehouse aour source of supplg-reduce gour i.ru:entory, increase Aour seruice andlower gour cost of doi,ng businessP We are as close as Uour telephone." Art Regsa hos been representi,ng Mason Supplies for more than f8 uears in the Southern Calif ornia trade area.

FOR Att QUATITY STANDARD BRAN D IMMEDIATE PICK.UP AND DELIVERY .

F-A-S-T Service rn the forests of coastal British Columbia, the giant Red Cedar often survives centuries of time, wind and lveather. Little rvonder, then, that lumber cut from this naturally timeless wood will beautify and protect homes in the most severe climates for decades more.

To aid in realizing the economies of this new load, Signode has prepared a "6-4 Pa-ckage" which consists of"a folder with- cost comparisons and helpful information about the load, a mateiials list and loading diagram, the official A. A. R. specifications and drawing, and a 6-,4' loading and bracing checklist.

The "6-4' Package" may be obtained by writing to Signode Steel Strapping Co', 2600 N. Western Ave., Chicago 47, Ill.

ITS BEAUTY IS AGED -IN-THE -WOOD:

CAI,INDAR OT COMINfr DYINTS

Women in Construction, Los Angeles Chapter-July 17' Dinner meeting, Chalon Mart Restaurant, 1933 S. Broadway.

IHPA Golf Tournament-July 18. For mem,bers of IHPA 'arrd the Japanese trading firms of Los Angeles. Tee-off time at 10:30 a.rn. at Los Coyotes Counrtry Club in Buena Park. Conrtact John R. Osgood, IHPA p,resident, in Los Angeles, DUnkirk 2-8278.

National Woodwork Ma.nufacturers Association, Inc.-July 27. Summer Meeting, San Franoisco, hotel to be announced.

Ponderosa Pine Woodwork-July 30-31. Summer Meeting, The Mark Hopkins Ho,tel, San Francisco.

Tests by a commisstoner partment, Freetown, West installed in termite-infested to all insect attack."

of the Lands and Forests DeAfrica, showed that redwood ground was found "resistant

The California redwood was discovered in 1769 by a Spanish expedition to Northern California under Don Gaspar de Portola. The famous tree was called "palo colorado," or redwood tree, in Portola's diaries.

California redwood trees, now found only along the coast of Northern California, once grew in Siberia, Alaska, China, France, Greenland, Texas and Montana, according to fossil remains. Only those growing on the California coastline survived the Ice Age.

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Sales Agents: bvr BRITISH C0LUMBIA F0REST PR0DUCTS LIMITED, ' vAr{couvER, B.c.

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