. Canadian forest industries January-June 1914. MANUFACTURING WOODWORKING Machine Knives, Circular Cuttersand Mortise Chisel Boss Line Lumbering Tools Manufactured by The McFarlane-Neill Mfg. Co., Ltd., St. Marys, N. B. Forged Steel Socket Peaveys and Cant Hooks are acknowledged by leading lumber-men to be the lightest and strongest on the market. Try our Steel Loading Blocks, Twitching Grips, Saw Wedges, Skidding Logs, TimberCarriers, Split Rock Maple Peavey and Cant Hook Handles, etc Catalogues furnished and prices quotedon application. 74 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER The Steam TensionBan


. Canadian forest industries January-June 1914. MANUFACTURING WOODWORKING Machine Knives, Circular Cuttersand Mortise Chisel Boss Line Lumbering Tools Manufactured by The McFarlane-Neill Mfg. Co., Ltd., St. Marys, N. B. Forged Steel Socket Peaveys and Cant Hooks are acknowledged by leading lumber-men to be the lightest and strongest on the market. Try our Steel Loading Blocks, Twitching Grips, Saw Wedges, Skidding Logs, TimberCarriers, Split Rock Maple Peavey and Cant Hook Handles, etc Catalogues furnished and prices quotedon application. 74 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER The Steam TensionBand Mill THE top guide on this mill,as well as the upper wheel,is operated by a steam cylinder. This means that the guide canbe moved up or down instan-taneously, which in one dayswork means quite a saving oftime over the ordinary goes a long way towardspaying for the mill by the endof a year. But this is not all—with thissteam operated guide it is justas easy to keep the guide closeto the cut as it is to set it forcertain size logs and keep itthere. This can be done without loss of time, and so by bringing the guide downclose to the cut, vibration of the saw is done away with and the quality of the lumberis improved. No form of tension yet devised is as easy on the saws as the steam tension—several ofthe users of this mill have run through an entire season without cracking a single saw. These are some of the reasons why our steam tension band mill is the most economi-cal mill to buy, and there are others which you wil


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