Advances in Integrated Logging

Describes St. Regis Paper Co. experience in integrated logging of over 140,000 acres of forested land, stressing importance of physical properties in relation to using wood to best advantage. Woods operations as related to log length, end use of logs, and transportation of logs to mill are discussed. Generally a 4-foot operation requires different equipment, road layout, and river landings than a long-log job. Piecework wage rates are difficult to set and handle on a mixed log-length job. Their integrated operations cut spruce, Douglas-fir, white pine, and Norway pine logs mostly in 12- and 16-foot lengths. Very few 8- and 14-foot logs are cut. Hemlock logs do not drive well because of their heavy weight. A profitable integrated log operation requires sufficient timber in one general area to yield a fairly large volume of each kind of log; concentration of all the logs in one place before final sorting; a plant to process the logs into other products, or a market for them within economical hauling distances; and an alertness to changing market conditions.

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