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Douglas fir-Redwood-Ponderosa Pine-Sugar Pine

Huge Weyerhaeuser Plant

(Continued from Page 10) tional 8 to 9 per cent is shop lumber, shor'vs how marvelously this cutting-for-grade is done. The lumber finally leaves this mil1 on a mighty green sorting chain, r'vhere it is segregated, separated, graded, and removed for seasoning and further handling.

Mill Number T'rvo is an entirely different type of mill. It is equipped with three band headrigs. The logs that come to this mill are Douglas Fir that did not qualify for Mill Number One. They are smaller, lower in average quality, and more variable than the logs that go to N{ill Number One. Of the three headrigs, one handles the larger and longer logs, and the other trvo cut the smaller and shorter timber. The rest of the equipment of this mill consists of conventior-ral edgers, trimmers, gang sarvs and pony headrigs, ancl resaws of various kinds to get the best grades from the stock. This mill has the largest per hour capacity o{ the three sau'mi11s, turning out about 500'000 feet in 8 hours.

Sarvmill Number Three cuts {rom 100,000 to 140,000 feet in B hours, front smaller and lorv grade Douglas Fir logs, and also from other species such as Hemlock and Red Cedar. It has a single band headrig, also edging, trimming, and gang sarvs.

Most of the lumber cut in the three sawmills is routed through the dry kilns and then on to the planing mill or dry sheds. The planer is a big one that operates two 8 hour shiits daily, and handles from 1,100,000 to 1,500,000 feet claily, which is approximately the capacity of the three

Burns Mill a Lumber Co. Has Efficient Plant

The custom milling and kiln drying plant of Burns Mill & Lumber Co. at 3501 Giant Road, Richntond, Calif is equipped rvith the most tnodein n-rachines, and has a capacity of 80,@0 feet in an eight-hour shift' The dry kiln capacity is 80,000 ltoard feet per charge. W' L' Burns is vice president and general manager.

The site is 10 acres in extent, and it is served by a 600foot Southern Pacific spur track.

It is the intention a little later to build up a wholesale yard, hanclling all West Coast rn'oods, Mr- Burns stated.

The modern equipment includes a new 6 x 15 Pacific ball-bearing planer and matcher, a new all-electric 4x6 \ronnegut moulder, and a netv ball-bearing Turner resa\lr' The lumber handling equipment includes a 110-foot segregating chain, trvo Ross carriers, and a Hyster lift truck'

Hcmmond Lumber ComPcnY

Buys Cloverdcle Yard sawmills. I\till Number N{ill Number Two and 8 hour shift. They cut feet of lumber a daY.

H-ammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, .purchased the retail lumber yard of M. C. Triplett, Cloverdale, November 22. The yard had been operated by Mr. Triplett for many years.

One runs two B hour shifts daily' Mill Number Three each run one close to one and one-half million

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