. Prolonging the cut of southern pine. ig. 2, and 26 Prolonging the Cut of Southern Pine Plate IV, Fig. 1, four feet nearer. The sawyers in each case dis-regarded their employers interests and made the cut at the pointwhere the least labor was involved. Although cutting at theproper point would, because of the swelling, have required morework, the value of the extra time consumed would have been onlya small part of the worth of the timber saved. (3) Cutting too far above the crotch. In the tree shown inPlate III, Fig. 1, the cut should have been made three feet loweron the tree and in P
. Prolonging the cut of southern pine. ig. 2, and 26 Prolonging the Cut of Southern Pine Plate IV, Fig. 1, four feet nearer. The sawyers in each case dis-regarded their employers interests and made the cut at the pointwhere the least labor was involved. Although cutting at theproper point would, because of the swelling, have required morework, the value of the extra time consumed would have been onlya small part of the worth of the timber saved. (3) Cutting too far above the crotch. In the tree shown inPlate III, Fig. 1, the cut should have been made three feet loweron the tree and in Plate IV, Fig. 1, two feet lower, thereby saving42 feet log scale in the first and 21 feet in the second case withoutadditional expense for labor. The further waste of an 18-footlog fourteen inches in diameter (103 board feet log scale), shownin Plate III, Fig. 1, as partly bedded in the ground, can beexplained as due to insufficient inspection. The stumpage valueof the waste in this tree alone, at $ per thousand feet, is$ 90-. FIG 2. FORKED TREE IMPROPERLY CUT. The waste of stumpage was not the only loss, since close obser-vation of forked logs showed that in all cases the transportationand handling from the stump through the mill was accompaniedby greater labor and expense than straight logs of the samediameter. An extreme case is illustrated in Fig. 2. The log was12 feet long and 18 inches in diameter at one end, and becauseof its form was exceedingly difficult to handle. The yield ofsawed lumber was not determined, but was estimated to be only40 per cent of the full content of a straight 18-inch log. Thefollowing time was consumed in handling: from mill pond to milldeck, 12 minutes; throwing log out of log trough, 4 minutes;sawing, 13 minutes, a total of 29 minutes. So much time was consumed in getting this log onto the mill deckthat the band mill was out of logs for five minutes. The gangsaw also ran out of cants and was idle for three minutes becauseof the stoppag
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