"BlG STICKS" Clear Fir Lumber and Twin Harbors Has Them !

Clear Fir Lumber Company, located 28 miles East of Arcata in Redwood Creek Valley, recently entered into an exclusive sales agreement with Twin Harbors Lumber ComDany. A mutually beneficial agreement to both sides, Clear Fir gains a broader marketing area for its quality old growth stock through Twin Harbors' sales network while Twin Harbors gains an exceptionally fine source of old growth finetextured Douglas fir in lengths up to 42'. Tvtin Harbors also represents an- other long mill, Humboldt Fir at Hoopa, which can cut timbers tp to 32' in length. The agreement was reached by Don Anderson, vice-president of Tr,vin Harbors Lumber Company, and Ray Swigert, general manager of Clear Fir Lumber Company.

Clear Fir is located aporoximately 28 miles East of Arcata, California, in Redwood Creek \ralley. The mill can be reached by traveling Highway 299 some 20 miles east to a county road junction leading to Hoopa where Humboldt Fir is located. Clear Fir is approximately eight miles northeast of this junctior.r.

The mill site consists of 15 acres of paved property adjacent to a 14 acre log pond which is jointly held by United States Plywood and Clear Fir. One-half of the pond is used by United States Plyr,vood to sort logs from its woods operation and the other half is used by Clear Fir as a log storage and sorting area.

General manager Swigert notes that the purpose of locating the mill in this area was to get as near the timber source as possible with the thought in mind that lumber could be hauled from the mill cheaper than logs (if the mill were located in the Arcata area). Although the bulk of the company's production moves by truck, Clear Fir also maintains a yard at Arcata where rail shipments are processed.

The mill is constructed on ground level with concrete floor and the building has steel trusses with a galvanized roof designed primarily for a long timber mill cutting up 42' in length.

Basic mill equipment includes a 4block carriage with 72" openings with Salem pre-determined set works and air tapers on three knees. The head rig is an B' Filer & Stowell band rig powered by a 300 h.p. slip ring electric motor. The edger is a 12" x 60" llurnboldt Machine Works and trimmer is a Sumner 42' length capacity with a 12" depth cut. The resaw. a Prescott 7". is powered by a 250 h.p. electric slip ring motor with line bar feed which is backed up by another trim- mer on the green chain to pick up retrim from the resaw.

The green chain is 140' long with an additional 75' offset chain at the end for pulling and sorting special items. A ffi' bridge crane is located at the end of the chain for handling and packaging timbers for shipment. Two Hyster fork lifts and one Hyster carrier are used to service botl-r the sawmill and planer.

The management of Clear Fir Lumber Company, a California corporation, includes general manag'er Swigert, plant manager \,Villiam Gross, salesmanager Del Davenport and mill superintendent U. M. AuClaire.

New "Flip-Top" Truck Speeds In-Plqnt Mqteriols Hondling

A new two level "flip-top" truck which simplifies in-plant distribution of a wide range of products has been designed by the F'isher l)ivision of National Vulcanized Fibre Co.

The truck can be used to handle wood, metal, plastic and many other industrial oroducts. It carries three vulcanized ieceptacles and provides access to all simultaneously. A flat-bed, four wheel chassis carries the receptacles.

Two of the receptacles are rectangular. One rests on the bed of the truck and the second is held in place on a metal frame positioned above the first. The f rame is attached to movable arms enabling the receptacle to be swung out over the bottom unit.

A square hamper, approximately the size of two rectangular units, occupies the end of the truck.

Additional information concerning the new truck is available from Na- tional Vulcanized Fibre Co., 1061 Beech Street, Wilmington 99, Delaware.

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