PAGE 8 MAY 19, 1978
Mill Gears U
As Logs Rumble In
A caravan of log trucks wheeled into the Warm Springs Forest Products decking
area May 15 to unload their first cargos of the 1978 logging season. Scalers said they
were comi“ g in twice as fast as they could measure the logs, causing a back-up like the
one above- Loggers were eager to get loads out of the woods since the accepting date
had been moved back two weeks.
Weighmaster Dwayne Samson checked more than 80 loads by
11:30 a.m. on the first day of logging season. Samson makes sure
trucks and their loads don’t exceed the 80,000 lb. limit and records the
sp ecies of the loads. Most of the logs com ing in that day were-
Ponderosa Pine.
The whole load is removed from the trailers, in one bite of a. LeTourneau. Logs are scattered out
for scaling purposes, then scooped up again to be decked.
B.J.A. Scaler L.A. Stevens went about his business calmly amidst the dust and
bustle of heavy equipment, but said it helps to have eyes in the back of the head.
Scalers determine the net and gross volume of the wood by measuring the length
and d iam eter of logs. Board feet are deducted for rot, the ex ten t of which is
estimated according to formulas,.
Photos by Cynthia Stowell
After the logs are scaled they are marked with a silver X and shuttled over to the
growing log decks. LeTourneau operators raced against time on Monday, the first day
for accepting logs into the mill, their hasty maneuvers raising dust and decibles.
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