Pine Pulpwood Production

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Excerpt from Pine Pulpwood Production: A Study of Hand and Power MethodsFollowing a work plan developed by the Station, most of the field observations were recorded by the Oooperating company's personnel, and were collected from.february through Mayl<946o Data were summarized and analyzed by the Stationls personnel, Regression analyses were.made for the felling, bucking, and skidding Operations° All data given apply to clear - cutting Operations onlyo NO allowance has been made in the data, curves, or discussion for'the fact that the power equipment was Operated by green hourly labor, whereas the hand equipment was Operated by sea soned contract labor° Nor were supervisory costs included in any case.The types of hand and power tools studied include axe, bow saw, cross cut saw, chain saw and circular saw, with accompanying crews as described. Comparisons Of hand.methods of felling included one man with an axe (a one man with a bow saw (b two men with a bow saw (b and two men with a crosscut (c )0 Hand bucking included one man with a2bow saw (b men with a bow saw (b and two men with a crosscut saw (c Power fell~ ing was done with chain saws using a Beman crew (ch and a Asman crew (ch also with a circle saw of the buggy type usigg a Afman crew (cr Powér bucking tools included the aboveementioned chain saws and circle4 saw, except that in the latter case a 3=man crew (cr was found most ef ficiento Various combinations Of tools and crew sizg were graphically tested, but only the most promising ones are discussed in this paper.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.