. Canadian forest industries 1916. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. A loaded train of logging cars. necessary to add the current cost of rails. A further item of equip- ment that would be necessary in districts where there is a consider- able snowfall is a wing plough, also a flanger. Sometimes, even with the best possible equipment, it is a very difficult undertaking to keep the road operating in winter. This operator's conclusion, which he has reached after conduct- ing logging operations with almost every kind of equipment, both in
. Canadian forest industries 1916. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. A loaded train of logging cars. necessary to add the current cost of rails. A further item of equip- ment that would be necessary in districts where there is a consider- able snowfall is a wing plough, also a flanger. Sometimes, even with the best possible equipment, it is a very difficult undertaking to keep the road operating in winter. This operator's conclusion, which he has reached after conduct- ing logging operations with almost every kind of equipment, both in the east and on the Pacific Coast is interesting. He says that he has no hesitation in advising that logging by rail "is the court of last resort in the ; We would like other readers of the Canada Lumberman, who have had experience with logging railroads, send us their views in connection with this subject. Logging by Rail—Few Pointers Good Roadbed and Skilled Operators Essential—The Log Loader's Importance By R. S. P. Smyth* On the Pacific Coast, 25 years ago, most of the lumbermen were getting their logs to the rafting ground with oxen, but they were skinning along the shore, generally going a mile or so back, using skid-roads, and bringing their logs in "trains," that is, one dogged to the other, greasing the notch in the skids on the levels and sanding it on the down grades. Those were the days when the bull-puncher was king and the best paid man in the camp. The lumberman was making money under these conditions. Then came the donkey en- gines, roaders and yarders—and these are largely used even today. However, there was timber beyond the reach of the roader and ya«rder, so the locomotive and rail came in. As the years go by there will be more locomotives and longer rails, and fewer loaders, but the yarder has to be used to feed the locomotive business. In the east, the nature of the timber and the circumstances of * Canadian manager for Fin
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