New Permanent Carrier Block Intfoduced By Gerlinger-Stevens Co.

Economy and Durability Are Features

All lumbermen operating lumber carriers will be interested in this steel carrier block-because they are interested in anything that will reduce their costs at a small initial outlay.

Mr. F. W. Stevens, General Manager of the GerlingerStevens Company, 326 Pacific Building, P-ortland, Oregon, who are manufatiuring and selling the "Economy" Steel Carrier Block, states tlat investigition shows the cost of buildins *oodett carrier blocks vaiies from 50c to 65c each, for maierial and labor; also that the life of a wooden block is onlv about six months. Added to this cost is the expense of refiting which is necessitated when loads have to be repiled afler the wooden blocks break.

Assumine that a wooden block only costs 50c, Mr' Stevens states"that their steel block will pay for itself in tw-oyears on replacement savings alone. This means that it i rt..f blocli should last only five years, the saving effected ovei that period would be-equal to l5O/o oh the invest- ment, or 3A/o per annum on the investment.

The "Economy" Carrier Block may be used in conjunction with any make of lumber carrier. The top member of the block is made from 4" structural channel steel, with pieces of hardwood set in at each ehd so as to grip the shoes of the carrier. The legs, of t/+" steel plate, 6" wide (giving a 6"x8! bearing surface), spaced 8" from each end, are flush with the inside of the channel, thereby eliminating strain on the rivets.

Over-all height of the "Economy" Carrier Block is 7", or lf" lower than most wooden blocks now ih use-materially increasing capacity of carrier.

Weight of. a 47' block is 30 pounds.

While several hundred carrier blocks are used in any plant operating lumber carriers, Gerlinger-Stevens Company state that it is not hecessary to discard all wooden blocks in order to use the steel blocks, but recommend replacement with the "Economy" block whenever wooden blocks break.