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R,edwood Seosoning Gommittee Meets

A highlight of the September 14 meeting of the Redwood Seasoning committee at the Union Lumber Company, Fort Bragg, California, was a talk by Professor Robert Cockrell of the University of California School of Forestry on the structure of wood as related to drying. With the aid of slides, he discussed the makeup and the differences in shrinkage of springwood and surirmerwood, also the differences between softwoods and hardwoods.

The advantages of blanking shim stock before drying, as determined by a study at the Simpson Redwood Company, Arcata, were reported by Lawrence Jurgens. Because of the uniform thickness of blanked shim stock, the output of the sticking machine was increased. Yard capacity increased as a result of stacking blanked packages five high instead of the usual four for r6ugh packages. Vard-dryin{ time was reduced from eight months to four months, *hile yard turnover increased 2N7o. Kiln time was decreased from ten days for rough to five days marked improvement in the was noted.

Jack Tarason of the Aborigine Lumber Company, Fort t I t L- :------^-^ ^l^^ 5ragg, air-drv Bragg, discussed his company's use of fans to increase the for blanked shim stock, and a quality of the finished product air-drying rate of young growth redwood 2x4 studs. The results of a recent test comparing one-half inch and threequarter inch stickers on green redwood .4/4 lumber were presented by Louis Andreani.of Union Lumber Company. Two charges were run on the same schedule for the same number of days, and the test showed that kiln capacity with one-half inch stickers was increased.by 25/o.

Chairman Sam Brown announced that the next meeting of the Redwood Seasoning committee will be hosted by the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company in mid-November.

(Tell them you saw in The California Lumber Merchant)

Speciollzing in Truck-qnd-Trailer ond Roif Shiprnenfs . .

Old-Growth Bond-sown REDWOOD from Boiock Lumber Co., Monchesler

Old-Growth DOUGTAS FIR from Spocek Bros. Lumber Co., i/lonchesler

Precision-trimmed STUDSDouglos Fir r White Fir o Redwood

REDUIOOD POSTS qnd FENCING

FRED C. HI|TMES TUMBER COMPANY

Fred HOlllES / Gorl FORCE

P. O. Box 987

Fort Brogg, Golif.

TWX: Forr Brogg 49

Phone: YOrktown 4-37OO

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