. Lumbering in the sugar and yellow pine region of California . is crew consists of 1 winchman,2 unloaders, and 1 man shoveling bark off the deck. This crewunloads 280,000 daily at a labor cost of $11, or about 4 cents per1,000. The usual cost of unloading is from 2 to 4 cents per 1,000. WOODS SUPERVISION. The field supervision of logging is a very important item and maymake the success or failure of a lumbering operation. SawmiUingcan be pretty well standardized, but the logging of each tract mustbe planned on the ground, and in this planning is the chance eitherto cut or swell costs. Not onl
. Lumbering in the sugar and yellow pine region of California . is crew consists of 1 winchman,2 unloaders, and 1 man shoveling bark off the deck. This crewunloads 280,000 daily at a labor cost of $11, or about 4 cents per1,000. The usual cost of unloading is from 2 to 4 cents per 1,000. WOODS SUPERVISION. The field supervision of logging is a very important item and maymake the success or failure of a lumbering operation. SawmiUingcan be pretty well standardized, but the logging of each tract mustbe planned on the ground, and in this planning is the chance eitherto cut or swell costs. Not only is the work planned for each par-ticular area but the operations for the whole tract must be laid outlong in advance. This calls for competent woods superintendentsand logging engineers who are qualified to plan the layout of therailroad and logging, as well as to supervise the work. In addition to the logging superintendent, woods supervision in-cludes the camp foreman, timekeepers, night watchman, and chore Bui. 440, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate Fig. 1.—Log Pond and Large Double-Band Sawmill at a RepresentativeCalifornia Pine Lumbering Operation.
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