Instolls Smoll Kiln

boiler room and the kiln itself. 1-he l<iln and boiler plant have been so located away from other builclings on the premises that the proper insurance clearances are maintained.

A small low pressure (10 to 15 pSI) automatic boiler is used over a dutch oven so designed that either wood rvaste or oil can be used for heating the boiler. During the 'orrnal working day, the boiler is hancl fired, using planer shavings and wood r,vaste. During the periocrs that the plant is .ror,.,rali.u quiet, over week ends and nights, the oil burner is designed to automatically start up and take over the firing of the boiler rvhen ever the dutch oven fails to keep up the necessar). steam pressure. This particular installation is unique, in that it solves the wood waste disposal problem for a small plant and has also eliminated the overhead cost of maintaining fireman 24 hours a day for producing steam for the kiln.

Green storage tracks aheacl of the kiln provide adequate space for dry kiln trucks loaded with lumber to take advantaqe of partial air drying provided by the prevailing winds along the Columbia River. After the lumber has been dried, it is then moved laterally by transfer car direct into the planing shed where the lumber can be helcl in storage, or fed into the planer.

The small Moore Cross-Circulation Kiln at this plant has all the features of the conventional type commercial kiln but has been adapted in this particular case .for an installation where daily drying needs run betrveen 2_l and 4 thousand board feet.

This type and design kiln answers the clrying problem of small operators and they will be interestecl in visiting and inspecting this installation.

Donovon-Bissell

A. \\/. I)onovan, I-os Angeles u.holesale lumberman, and Mrs. Frank S. tsissell, were married on September 26 at Las Vegas, Nevada. They spent their honeymoon at Santa Barbara, and will reside in Los Angeles.

Raymond Grey, Taft Lumber Co., returned to Taft recently after a trvo in the u'ilderness of Northern Nevada.

and his son Dick, weeks hunting trip