. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Metal Truck for Lumber Dry Kilns. market, will be more apparent upon an examination of the truck itself, but we shall endeavor to point out some of the leasons why it seems destined to displace the others. The ordinary bunk which is usually made up by mill owners themselves, they simply buying the wheels, axles, boxes and bolts, in the first place weighs 120 lbs., and is a very cumbersome and clumsy thing to handle, requiring two men to carry it back from the dry
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Metal Truck for Lumber Dry Kilns. market, will be more apparent upon an examination of the truck itself, but we shall endeavor to point out some of the leasons why it seems destined to displace the others. The ordinary bunk which is usually made up by mill owners themselves, they simply buying the wheels, axles, boxes and bolts, in the first place weighs 120 lbs., and is a very cumbersome and clumsy thing to handle, requiring two men to carry it back from the dry to the green end of the kiln ; not only that, but as it is sub- jected to such a high temperature and dry atmosphere inside the kiln, when coming out into the open air and being exposed to all kinds of weather, it is soon checked and split, requiring constant repairs. On the other hand this truck weighs only seventy pounds, the sides being made of heavy sheet steel formed minutes for the plates to go through thedr>ing process, and not a hand touches them until the girls sort them for packing. Ten machines are working constantly on the oval butter dishes and the capacity of the works is approximately 600,000 a day. The most wonderful machine in the shop is that which manufactures the wire end dishes. For these the logs are cut into bolts, boiled, and then converted into veneers the thickness of the material used in the plates. Still hot and steaming the veneers are fed through a machine which cuts the veneer to the required shape and size, marks the folds, folds them and sews the ends of the dish with wire, and finally deliveres the dish complete at the other end. The machines turn out the wire-end dishes at the rate of a 100 minute, and the factory facilities are for 200,000 a Lumber Stamping Device. at short distances throughout its entire length, so that, in case of any division of the piece, each length will still bear the brand. Each piece of flooring, ceiling, mo
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