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CROSS-CUT SAW SHAVINGS

HROUGH the courtesy of the Southern States Lumber Co.,

we show typical long-leaf yellow pine shavings cut by them with a DISSTON "Suwanee" cross-cut saw in Escambia County, Florida.

The experienced cross-cut saw man is, of course, perfectly familiar with the action of the "Raker" or "Planer" tooth. Many new men, however, are constantly entering the field and an explanation of the function of the "Raker" and the proper fitting for best results will be helpful to the uninitiated.

All the cutting or severing of the wood fibres in cross-cutting is done by the pointed teeth. Two parallel scorings are made in

the wood, one each side of the saw. The sole duty of the "Raker" is to plane or clean out the ridge of wood left between these scorings, thereby keeping the cut clean. This action is clearly shown in the drawing above and the photograph opposite shows the shavings thrown out of the cut by a well fitted saw.

The "Raker" should always be a little shorter than the pointed teeth-from 1/100 of an inch to 1/32, depending on the kind and condition of timber. If the "Raker" is longer than the cutting teeth, instead of simply clearing the cut of wood fibres already severed, it tears the uncut fibres and causes the saw to ride or jump. This defect in the fitting will not only make rapid and clean cutting impossible but makes the operation of the saw extremely difficult.

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HIS ford is a mile and a half long and is on the Gaspe Coast at Cascapedia. Mr. E. F. Sinton, traveling from our Toronto Branch, crosses it every so often in a buggy (he is seen in the photograph holding a grip) to look after the Cascapedia Lumber and Trading Co's requirements in DISSTON SAWS. The mill is seen in the background. Mr. Sinton tells us that the water is frequently up to the bottom of the buggy and occasionally he has to hold his traveling bag on his knees to keep it dry. By crossing here however, Mr. Sinton saves a long detour and he quite agrees with the thousands of others who find the ford a great convenience.

THE COVER

The magnificent size of the felled giant shown on cover of this issue is plainly shown in comparison with the size of the men in the photograph. It is interesting, however, to consider the tree shown in the lower right corner. This tree was felled simply to facilitate operations on the large tree, but is in reality of very fair proportions itself.

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ROBABLY to the great majority of people the mention of grindstones awakens recollections of toilsome, perspiry hours at the crank in the wood-shed while the old man ground the nicks out of the axe. To these the foot-treadle type of two-foot stone with the punctured tomato can water supply represents the highest development in the line.

It probably would be difficult for them to conceive of one concern using so many grindstones that the entire time of a gang of ten men was required to handle them. Yet this is the scale on which grindstones are used in the DISSTON Plant-ten men are kept busy replacing worn out stones with new.

No toys, either, these grindstones. Various sizes are used but all of them are over four feet in diameter and many of them six feet with faces ranging from five to thirteen inches.

The upper right hand picture in the center-spread of this issue is a photograph of one of the two big grindstone sheds. The left hand picture shows another large collection of grindstones awaiting their turns (pardon the pun). The lower picture shows a carload of stones as they reach the DISSTON Plant, and it is very seldom that one or more such cars is not to be seen on the siding to be unloaded.

The picture in the center is a corner of the stone-wall which encloses the front and side of the immense plant of the DISSTON COMPANY. The wall is seven feet high above ground, one and a half feet thick and has a net length of nearly a mile. It is made from grindstones worn down in the manufacture of DISSTON SAWS. Moreover these stones represent the accumulation of only the few years from 1900 to 1907 in which year the stone-wall was completed.

Only these of the hundreds of thousands of stones used are left. The rest are all scattered. But just think of them as placed end to end and stretching for hundreds of miles. Then think of the one in the wood-shed. "All things are comparative."