Canadian forest industries 1901-1902 (1902) (20524585325)

Title: Canadian forest industries 1901-1902
Identifier: canadianforest190102donm (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XXI. Number 5. ) TORONTO, GflNflDfV, MAY, 1900 TEAK LOGGING IN INDIA. carefully piling the slabs preparatory to their= Through the kindness of Messrs. Edmiston & being converted. Mitchells, of Glasgow, Scotland, we are enabled to In some saw mills the elephant is in use in furnish our readers with some illustrations show- almost every department. One will, when har- ing how Teak logs are handled at the saw mills of nessed to a round log, drag it out of the water Messrs. MacGregor & Co., of Ragoon, British to the rack bench, and there with its tusks place Burmah, for whom they act as agents. Teak trees it on the table, while at the other end his mate felled in the forests of Burmah are launched into is waiting, and when the log has been squared J Terms,$i.oo Per Year. 1 Single Copies, 10 Cents raises the butt and with his tusks pushes it into the pile. When the pile is low, that is up to six feet, the front of the tusks are used in pushing the square into position, but in the case of the pile being higher, the forehead is used. If, however, the square should be above the level of his forehead, the elephant throws his head well back, and with the points of the tusks high in
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Teak"'Logging in India—MacGregor & Co.'s Elephant Piling Teak Squares. the streams by the aid of elephants, and floated down the rivers, where they are again drawn out of the river by the elephants and dragged to the saw mills, to be prepared for the Indian, European and other markets. In the work of piling Teak, the elephant dis- plays an amount of intelligence which is most surprising, more especially when one remembers that an elephant direct from the plain dragging ground of the jungle—the rudimental part of the work as it were—may be seen within a week, or as soon as he gets used to the noise of the machinery, walking along harnessed to a log, or he takes it in tow and marches off to the piling ground with it, where he in turn hands it over to the piling elephants, who slowly and sedately place it in its resting place. The most difficult, or perhaps we should say intfc.i^nal. work is the piling. Say a square has been brought iu cne p;,ing ground by the drag- ging elephant, one of the pftfejjg would then begin by putting the squares in position alongside the pile, the end of the squares being about six feet past the butt of the pile. He then lifts t;he end of it on to the top of the pile, and with hi^ tusks holds it in a position, while his mate slowly \ the air, will push the square safely home, his mate all the time keeping a watchful eye on it to see that it goes straight, and gently guiding it with his tusks when necessary. When the squares are wanted for shipment, again the elephant comes to th^ore and'gently one by one takes them/from the pi,e and lays them out ready for>£utting, after which he ^H^ne^tliem down to the riverside and into the water, and if necessary will follow them into the water and hold them jammed together while the raftsmen are busy binding them. When the day's work is over the animals revel t