. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. TO CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume NuMBE sXVII. \ R 7. / TORONTO, ONT., JULY, 1896 J Terms,$ Per Year 1 Single Copies, 10 Cents. SPOOL-MAKING. The making of white birch spools has of recent years become an important industry in some parts of New Brunswick and the Eastern States. From the Lumber World, of Buffalo, we obtain the following description of the method of manufacture: The rough sticks are sawed into bars an inch â 2 inches square and four feet long. These b
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. TO CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume NuMBE sXVII. \ R 7. / TORONTO, ONT., JULY, 1896 J Terms,$ Per Year 1 Single Copies, 10 Cents. SPOOL-MAKING. The making of white birch spools has of recent years become an important industry in some parts of New Brunswick and the Eastern States. From the Lumber World, of Buffalo, we obtain the following description of the method of manufacture: The rough sticks are sawed into bars an inch â 2 inches square and four feet long. These bars are piled in high stacks out of doors and left for about three months to dry and season thorough- ly. Then they are stacked in the dry house. There are three dry-rooms in the mill, each about 16 feet square. Here the birch sticks are left generally for about six hours, or until they become thoroughly dried. This process of dry- ing is of considerable im- portance. When the wood is taken out of the dry- house, it is ready to be used. Workmen take the four foot sticks and cut them up into blocks the length of the desired spool. The ma- chines they use are called roughing-machines, and the men are known as Toughers. The long stick, in less than a quarter of a minute, is cut off into proper lengths. These blocks have been bored throughout, and their eieht corners are rounded off. From the roughing- machines the "blocks," as they are now called, slide down into barrels and are carried across the mill and dumped into huge bins. From the bins the finish- ers shovel out the blocks as they need them. The fin- ishing machines are marvels of mechanical ingenuity. Sets of keen knives are so arranged that, by one movement of the attending workman, a rough block is turned into a spool that needs only polishing to make it perfect. And the entire change has been made in less than a second. The spools are made to polish themselves. Sixteen barrels, two feet in diameter, made of s
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