. Lumbering in the sugar and yellow pine region of California . ece andcost from SI75 to S200, fitted with bunks. Binding chain and draftchain equipment and spreaders add about $40 for each truck. Heavyhorses cost from $500 to $550 per span. The daily cost is about $ The usual truck team consists of six horses driven with a jerkline, the teamster riding the near wheeler. The braking may be doneby the teamster, or a swamper may follow each truck to set the brake. Several logs are placed on a truck at one time, the average loadbeing from 1,400 to 1,800 feet. Upon an easy mile haul a six
. Lumbering in the sugar and yellow pine region of California . ece andcost from SI75 to S200, fitted with bunks. Binding chain and draftchain equipment and spreaders add about $40 for each truck. Heavyhorses cost from $500 to $550 per span. The daily cost is about $ The usual truck team consists of six horses driven with a jerkline, the teamster riding the near wheeler. The braking may be doneby the teamster, or a swamper may follow each truck to set the brake. Several logs are placed on a truck at one time, the average loadbeing from 1,400 to 1,800 feet. Upon an easy mile haul a six-horsetruck should make six trips daily with an average load of 1,500 feet,a daily output of 9,000. The cost of labor and team expense is about$ daily, or per 1,000. On a J-mile haul the same truckequipment should have a daily output of about 12,000 at an averagecost of $ per 1,000. In one instance, upon a haul varying from 1to 2 miles from the landings to the mill, six outfits of this character Bui. 440, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate F-953II Fig. 1.—Loading Logs with a Crosshaul in a Horse-Truck Logging Operation.
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