. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. :iyJ^ '^>j'u BULLETIN No. 718 Contribution from the Forest Service HENRY S. GRAVES, JDJ^'^^U Washington, D. C. December 17, 1918 SMALL SAWMILLS: THEIR EQUIPMENT, CON- STRUCTION, AND OPERATION. By Daniel F. Seerey, Lor/ging Engineer. CONTENTS. Page. Object of the bulletin 1 General suggestions for portable sawmill owners 2 Look before you leap 2 Capital required 3 Credits 3 Cost keeping 3 Organization 4 Mill site 5 Labor 5 Commissary 7 Marketing : 7 Grading lumber 8 Auxiliary products - 9 Some don'ts for s
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. :iyJ^ '^>j'u BULLETIN No. 718 Contribution from the Forest Service HENRY S. GRAVES, JDJ^'^^U Washington, D. C. December 17, 1918 SMALL SAWMILLS: THEIR EQUIPMENT, CON- STRUCTION, AND OPERATION. By Daniel F. Seerey, Lor/ging Engineer. CONTENTS. Page. Object of the bulletin 1 General suggestions for portable sawmill owners 2 Look before you leap 2 Capital required 3 Credits 3 Cost keeping 3 Organization 4 Mill site 5 Labor 5 Commissary 7 Marketing : 7 Grading lumber 8 Auxiliary products - 9 Some don'ts for sawmill operators 9 The mill and milling 11 Regular equipment 12 Auxiliary equipment 15 Engines and boilers 16 Waterpower 21 Belting 22 Circular saws 25 Log deck 31 Narrow gauge lumber lorry track 32 Setting up a portable mill 32 Operating the mill 34 Ra-ndng .â 35 Piling lumber 37 Pire protection 37 Logging 38 Saw crew and equipment 38 Crosscut saws 39 Notching and felHng 41 Preparing special products 42 The main logging road 44 Skidding 45 Slddways 46 Chutes 48 Loading logs 49 Scaling 51 Logging outfit 53 Appendix 57 OBJECT OF THE BULLETIN. Running a portable sawmill is no longer an easy occupation. The more accessible timber in the West has mostly been cut out or burned, and to-day the principal stands are far back in the hills, making log- ging and milling expensive as well as strenuous work. Profitable operation calls for ijrst-class loggmg equipment and modern mills, and for good business ability, skill, and hardihood on the part of the operator. Physical weaklings are more out of place in logging work than in any other kind of virile employment. Mere physical strength, however, is not in itself sufficient. A successful logger needs to be "strong" in the head as well as in the muscles. This bulletin offers to portable sawmill operators suggestions regarding methods of organization, milling, and logging which have 63262°â18 1. Please note that these images ar
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