. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 22 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Facts vs. Theory in Modern Logging rife t '"r116 m°tber °f inven*ion, most inventions are natur- ally at the "'Largest Fixed ; In other words, efforts to Cut Costs are usually directed at those expenses which form the larges proportion of the finished cost. This being true, it is the more remarkable that, while every other branch of the lumber business has long since been modernized and highly developed,
. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 22 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Facts vs. Theory in Modern Logging rife t '"r116 m°tber °f inven*ion, most inventions are natur- ally at the "'Largest Fixed ; In other words, efforts to Cut Costs are usually directed at those expenses which form the larges proportion of the finished cost. This being true, it is the more remarkable that, while every other branch of the lumber business has long since been modernized and highly developed, the logging end (which 3 the most expensive end) has until the past few years, continued in its primitive methods, and only after a radical departure from the old ways has the economic handling of logs been solved. Because these changes have taken place so recently, and the really successful devices are so few, only those who have studied the question thoroughly and become intimately acquainted with conditions as the-* exist in the various sections of the country can discuss the subject even m a general way, intelligently. Since these labor saving machines for handling logs have been on the market, many arguments have been advanced and much has been written concerning their fitness or unfitness under certain conditions but facts are facts, and machines which have been theoretically con- demned, as impractical under certain conditions, have sometimes proven the reverse in real practice therefore, the only proof is in the actual operation and results obtained. As few industries vary so much in their local environments as the lumber business, the machine best adapted to the general handling of Good Results Obtained by the Use of Log Loading Machinery By Norton Mattocks be simple in construction and easj for the average man to operate It must burn either wood or coal and be adaptable to both standard and narrow gauge track. Pig. 1 shows the general design of the McGiffert, the st
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