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A common sight to shippers and receivers of lumber is the hand unloading of lumber, but it is not always apparent the number of motions involved in unloading a freight car by hand, or by mechanical means. So Leonard Koenen, president of the Mayfair Lumber Company, Chicago, Illinois, and 1958 Exposition Materials Handling committee chairman of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, and lloward Carlson of the Signode Steel Strapping Company thought it would be interesting to conduc,t a light streak motion study to dramatically show the advantages of handling packaged lumber, as compared to loose lumber.

One "moonless" night recently, Koenen and Carlson conducted this photo experiment in the Mayfair lumberyard.

The other dramatically how one package of 160 boards, more than 30 times as many boards, can be mechanically unloaded in one swing by one man with the aicl of a fork truck with a boom attachment.

Here is visible proof that packaged lumber will be the answer to reducing the amount of work that has been needed in the past to unload lumber. This is also true in the yard handling of packaged lumber and when delivery is made at the building site.

For further information on the handling of packaged Iumber in the lumberyard and at the jobsite, write Signode Steel Strapping Company, 2ffi0 North \Arestern Avenue, Chicago 47, Illinois. (Tell

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