. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. This wheel is highly suitable or woolen mills, grist mills and electric light plants requiring steady motion, and easily controlled by governor, and it is strong and substantial for saw mill and mining or other heavy SAWMILL ECONOMICS. TT was, only a few years ago, capable of demonstration that there had been little, if any, advance during the last forty years in the average product of the saw mills on a per capita basis. The old mulay saw would cut about
. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. This wheel is highly suitable or woolen mills, grist mills and electric light plants requiring steady motion, and easily controlled by governor, and it is strong and substantial for saw mill and mining or other heavy SAWMILL ECONOMICS. TT was, only a few years ago, capable of demonstration that there had been little, if any, advance during the last forty years in the average product of the saw mills on a per capita basis. The old mulay saw would cut about 2,000 feet per man, employed from the pond to the yard, and the circular or band saw mill of five or six years ago would hardly do as well as that; but within a comparatively short time there has been a substantial gain in economy of production. This has been brought about by minor appliances and by a more perfect ar- rangement and systematizing of the business. It used to be said that the steam log turner had doubled the capacity of the saw mill. This was to a certain extent true. It did largely increase the output of the mill, but it entailed added labor and increased the number of hands in other parts of the establishment, so that the per capita of the production was but little changed. The high-speed feeds also greatly increased the output without in any corresponding manner de- creasing the cost. Now it is no uncommon thing to see a mill which turns out 3,000 feet per capita or better, though still in a majority of cases the production will be at or below the 2,000 feet mark. Perhaps two of the chief factors in reducing the amount of labor are the log "kicker," so called, which removes the log from the chain as it is brought into the mill, and the log loader. Not infrequently a mill can be seen which is doing rapid work with no one at all on the decks, and very commonly one to two men will take care of a double-deck mill. Right in that spot there has been a savin
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