CrossettNe*" Storage Shed Uses Teco

Trusses

In line with their postwar development, the Crossett Lumber Company at Crossett, Arkansas, are now completing the first step in their,sawmill construction prog'ram, according to A. T. McDonough, sawmill division manager.

Recognizing the growing need of merchandising not only a carcfully manufactured product, but also a.well seasoned, dry product, the first step in their sawmill building program is the erecting of an additional large storage shed for kilndried lumber.

The huge new building measuring 176' x 332' will actually house four complete sheds. Each shed is spanned with Teco connectored B0' free span trusses thus giving wide, clear floor space. Covering also an acre and onehalf of ground the new building will provide storage space for 5,800,000 feet oI lumber.

Typical designs for the roof truss construction were

Improvements at E. K. Wood Mill

E. K. Wood Lumber Company is installing at its Reedsport, Oregon, plant, a nbrv lO-foot Allis-Chalmers band mill, and an 8x15 Stetson-Ross planer and matcher. Delivery is expected early in August of a new 15O0-kilowatt General Electric turbine.

supplied by the Timber Engineering Company. Harry W. Mitchell, sawmill engineer, designed the facilities and Peterson & MacFadyen of Little Rock are the contractors.

Along with present construction comes a new method of handling packaged hardwood lumber. This lumber is now stacked on bunks or in packages and carried to the yards to be air-dried. From the yards, carriers pick up the packages and carry them to a site near the kilns. A lift truck loads the packages onto kiln cars. Cars are elevated and transferred to the kilns where the hardwood lumber is dried with steam down to six per cent moisture content. From the dry end of the kilns, the cars, holding four packages of 1,000 board feet each, are lowered back to where the lift trucks take them down in a similar manner to the way they were loaded. Carriers pick up the packages and transport them to either the storage shed or to the flooring department.

New Ycrd in Fortuna

Fortuna Builders Supply is the name of a new retail lumber and building material yard, rvhich opened for business in Fortuna, Calif., July 22.

Bill Rogers, formerly with Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., Eureka, is manager.