. Canadian forest industries 1911. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 77 as horses do, and is not bothered by a flurry of snow which leaves a couple of inches of loose snow in the ruts. After getting about ten inches of ice we did not put another tank of water on this road, although a horse road, paralleling it part of the way, required tanking almost every day. We of course tried to get the roads as level as possible, but did not have to be so particular about short grades as for horses, as the machine i
. Canadian forest industries 1911. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 77 as horses do, and is not bothered by a flurry of snow which leaves a couple of inches of loose snow in the ruts. After getting about ten inches of ice we did not put another tank of water on this road, although a horse road, paralleling it part of the way, required tanking almost every day. We of course tried to get the roads as level as possible, but did not have to be so particular about short grades as for horses, as the machine is a good climber and it not bothered at all by a stiff grade the length of half its train, which a team of horses with a fair load can not get up without assistance. The principal difficulty we had with the machine was going down hill, as it is considerably harder to sand properly for ten or twelve sleighs than for one, and in case of a "run" the machine cannot keep out of the way so well as horses, being geared for heavy pulling and not for speed. It is' easy, of course, to sand a hill heavily and take down only two or three sleighs at a time, but that takes longer. In planning a road it is necessary to have water holes every four or five miles as the machine will require water that frequently if heavily loaded. As it is more expensive to make roads for these wide heavy sleighs than for the ordinary type of horse sleighs, we made rather fewer branches-and skidded our logs a little farther. We did not find this made any material difference in the cost, as we had fewer skidways to build when we were skidding, and fewer to shovel out when we got to hauling, though in loading there was a little more tailing down. In operating the machine we kept three trains of ten or twelve sleighs each, in use all the time; one train in the branches being loaded, another train at the dump being unloaded, and the third train behind the machine. In this way we saved a great deal of time
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