New Sawlog Barker Installed

Employees at the Mills

Men who work in the mills of the Long-Bell Lumber Company stay a long, long time. At least, large numbers of them do.

This fact was proved recently when the company gave a big and sumptuous banquet in the Hotel Monticello, in the beautiful city of Longview, Washington, honoring some of their long-term employees. They made speeches to them, praised them, bragged about them, and pinned medals on them.

And of those employees at the Longview plant who received these signal honors there were two men who had been continuously in the employ of the company for 45 years; one 40 years; three 3O years; 27 for 25 years; and.20 for 15 years. Some record ! Let's name those three oldest employees. John Kemper, a sawyer, 45 years. J. B. Buckner, sliipping clerk, 45 years. Tom J. Eels, superintendent of manufacture, 40 years. Pretty good, eh?

North Bend, Oregon, Oct. 12 (Special)-Bark-free sawlogs are now being fed to Weyerhaeusers two whining headrigs in the company's new sawmill at North Bend, according to Arthur O. Karlen, manager. A two-nozzle hydraulic barker, operating at 1400 pounds pressure per square inch, strips the logs before they roll on the mill's Iog haul.

The unit is thefourth hydraulic sawlog barker to be installed by Weyerhaeuser since it completed its first company-engineered unit at Longview, Washington, in 1948. Jets of high-pressure water are now flaying off sawlog bark in company mills at Longview and Snoqualmie Falls, Washington, and Springfield and North Bend, Oregon. Additional units are planned for completion in 1952.

Hydraulic sawlog barkers are a new innovation in the Douglas fir region of Oregon and Washing'ton, with the Weyerhaeuser units being the only major ones in operation at the present time. Prime purpose of such barkers, according to Karlen, is to provide clean wood for conversion into Kraft pulp chips, for which there will be a growing demand as the forest industry increases its utilization. Lumber production is also aided because the sawyer

Down at Weed, California, where the I-ong-Bell Lumber Company has another big plant, they have some real veterans, also. And, while some of the older men at Longview got their start years ago in the Long-Bell mills in the South, there are men at Weed that have been right there for a couple of generations. The current "Log of Long-Bell," a company magazine, shows pictures of three men whose combined terms of service, right there at the Weed box factory, is 114 years. Chester Barnum has worked in that one plant continuously for 46 years. John Otto has been there for 42 years. And John Catalano has been there for 26 years. It must be fun working at Weed.

Congncrttilctions

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Metzger are the girl, Christina Marie, born at the glewood, on October 13. Ed is with Corporation, Inglewood, Calif.

proud parents of a baby Centinela Hospital, fnthe Southwest Plywood can see the exposed log better. Removal of bark-imbedded dirt decreases wear on saws.

The North Bend barker is a basic Bellingham type, with an overhead moving carriage bearing two oscillating nozzles, through which the water is driven as the jets travel lengthwise down the 1og. The log is rotated on big trunion wheels to obtain full exposure to the jet action. Weyerhaeuser's engineering department in Tacoma designed the installation.

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