Reorganizes Handling of Lumber from Green Chain to Driers

The Red River Lumber Company has reorganized the handling of lumber from green chain to driers during 1937 by the installation of new automatic stackers and a tenton hammerhead Brute crane. The stackers were built by the Moore Dry Kiln Company of Portland, Oregon, and the crane by the Star Iron and Steel Company of Tacoma. Crane and stackers are handling 250,000 board feet each eight-hour shift.

The crane has an automatic grapple operating on a radius up to 95 feet with a live load of 13,500 pounds. The crane weighs 220,WJ pounds and travels at a speed of 300 feet per minute on a track of 2O-foot gauge. The operating radius allows the crane to reach packages on both sides of the green chain

The Moore stackers tilt to break down the load each tier being released by a foot pedal and conveyed to the drier car which lowers automatically on a hydraulic elevator. Communication between stackers, green chain and crane operator is by two-way radio telephone. The seventy tunnels of reversible circulation driers, served by this new equipment, is now handling the entire plant output from clears to commons with the exception of mine timbers and

Big Crowd At East Bay Party

There was a large attendance at the annual Christmas party of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club, held at Hotel Alameda, Alameda, December 15.

Good music, an entertainment program and community singing were enjoyed by all.

Norman Vincent won a pair of Rose Bowl tickets in a drawing, and Brooks Walker collected the $15.00'door prize.

Clem Fraser acted as Santa Claus. He had a present for everybody, and some funny ones were distributed, including a chisel.

New crcae instclled by ThE Red Biver Lumber Co. railroad ties. With completion this month of loading sheds enclosing 30 cars the entire operation is made independent of rveather conditions.

Performs Heroic Act

Joe Perry, tally clerk on the wharf of the Hogan Lumber Company, Oakland, will probably get a Carnegie medal for heroism for his quick work in saving a 10 year old boy from drowning on December 20.

While at work on the wharf Joe saw the boy fall into the deep water of the Oakland Estuary from a raft. He immediately dived from the wharf fully clothed and brought the boy, who could not swim, to shore.

COLE WHEELER VISITS S. F.

Cole Wheeler, 'Wheeler-Hallock Co., Portland, was a recent visitor to San Francisco.