Old and New

A Contrast in Methods of Handling Lumber in the Milt and On the Job.

When I. N. Tate of Spokane, Wash., general manager of Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, announcid last mont6 that the affiliated mills represented by his organization had begun- !o manufacture a quality-line of sawmill products and to ship them in packages, the lumber industry and the trades dependent on it were set buzzing with countless questions.

The consensus of opinion wal that the plan must be all right if Weyerhaeuser said it was. But mbny lumbermen wondered just how it could be done. Here ls a pictorial answer to their questions.

This is the way the plan in its entirety evolved: First, it wa_s recog'nized tfat lumber needed a label, to improve selling-conditions in the business by enabling the producer and the merchant to advertise and promote lumber by the same methods €mployed by the competitive specialties; and to.improve the status of lumber on lhe buildingJot by carrying a consumer-guarantee that would prevent substitu- tion. During 18 months of experimentation and testing, it was found that a fibre end-cap was the ideal package to carry the label. But this package required that bothends of each piece be absolutely smooth and absolutely foursquare. This necessitated'fhe invention and installation of machinery costing tens of thousands of dollars. The first pictures of this machinery to be released are shown herewith.

One of these is a close-up showing the new re-butting saw being tested in one of the mills at Potlatch, Idaho, one of_the important white pine producing centers of the Weyerhaeuser affiliation. The distinctive feature of the new (Continued on Page 46) miis at Cloquet, compared byA.l.T-aslor, dcan 9f the llte5urhaii?i, i"'itt)'trhriiiii, Mrnn' nou, tks ren/rrEa,l. devtcc cuts lumber four square, and H. H. Payzant, inaentor of the "I,/izartl Saw.'

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| -Demand-greater every day because architects are specifying it.

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Old and New

(Continued from Page 44) equipment is the circular saw, of which every tooth is so set that it does an equal part of the work. This saw is mounted in the center of a re-trim bench 36 feet long. Each group of boards is held against the guides by pneumatically operated clamps which are rubber-faced to prevent even the slightest damage being done to the edges and corners of the lumber. The saw itself is operated, in this case, by an electric push-button

The larger picture of the rig is especially interesting in that it shows the equipment being demonstrated by itJ inventor, Harry H. Payzant formerly superintendent of a planing mill at Everett, Wash., to Sherman L. Coy, general manager of one of the Weyerhaeuser properties at Cloquet, Minn.

This photograph shows the installation as it had just been completed at Cloquet. Here the saw is applied by manual operation of a lever. Each end of each package of boards is trimmed separatelv. This machinerv was built in the Pacific Northwest rtr-d hm already beeh set up in several of the 17 Weyerhaeuser-affiliated mills in that region, Idaho and Northern Minnesota, and also at the great Eastern distributing plant of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company at Baltimore. It is expected that additional plants will be installed later.

One of the picturesque contrasts betlveen the old and the new ways of handling lumber appears by comparing this picture, which shows how lumber is made ready foi application by the new invention, with the one showing a Iypical carpenter of the old school squaring up a board by lrand. Every person who ever has been on 1 buitding lot is familiar with this scene-the mechanic carefully applying h_is rule to a board, marking it off with a heavy pencll and then sawing off the end.

When you go to buy a car, a demonstrator puts you into a machine and you drive out of the garage in it and do a few turns around the block to see that she runs smoothly. If "she" does so, and if it is not an unusually busy seasott for the..auto trade, you decide that "she's" just what you hoped "she'd" be, you make your down payment, and ofi you go. An automobile manufacturer would have a fine chance to sell you a machine that required a few hours of tinkering and re-adjusting before it would operate.

So it is with radios, with all the other atlractive devices that compete with homes, for the consumer's dollars, and with nearly everything else you buy except lumber. One thing that the pictures clearly demonstrate is that this remanufacturing process enables the lumber trade, for the first time, to offer the building public a product that is ready to use.

Another contrast between new and old is shown in the picture showing the finished product. This, also, was taken

The at Cloquet, a group of boards turned out by the re-manufacturing

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