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  2. Bridal Veil, Oregon - Wikipedia

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    A mile and half up the timber-rich mountain was the logging town of Palmer. Palmer and Bridal Veil shared common ownership as company mill towns. Together, the two towns produced lumber and were codependent. A V-shaped log flume was built for the rough cut timber to get down the mountain to the planing mill at the railroad tracks in Bridal Veil ...

  3. Hume-Bennett Lumber Company - Wikipedia

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    To transport their lumber to market, the company needed a railroad terminus. The town of Sanger offered them 65-acre (26 ha) of land alongside the Southern Pacific. They built a planing mill, and a box, door and sash factory there. The facility turned rough-cut lumber into finished material ready for shipment. [6]: 144

  4. Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the railroad, the Company also transported lumber in a flume that stretched 54 miles (87 km) from Sugar Pine to Madera, California. [6] This was the most efficient way to transport rough cut lumber out of the mountains for finishing and transport at the bottom of the mountain.

  5. Lumber - Wikipedia

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    Lumber is referred to as timber in the United Kingdom, Europe, [1] Australia, and New Zealand, while in other [citation needed] parts of the world (mainly the United States and Canada) the term timber refers specifically to unprocessed wood fiber, such as cut logs or standing trees that have yet to be cut. Lumber may be supplied either rough ...

  6. L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company - Wikipedia

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    The new mill had kilns and machines for planing and edging the rough-cut lumber into finished products. [3] Dantzler persuaded two of his sons, J.L. and L.N. Dantzler, Jr., to join the company, and the three incorporated the L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company on March 1, 1888. [4]

  7. Quarter sawing - Wikipedia

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    The William Ritter Lumber Company (1890–1960), famous for its Appalachian oak flooring and other products, used a modified technique to reduce waste: bark and a few boards were removed from two opposite sides of the log; the log was cut in half (possibly, four quarters); each piece was placed on the flat side and "quartersawn" lumber was cut ...

  8. Sawmill - Wikipedia

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    A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimensional lumber). The "portable" sawmill is simple to operate. The log lies flat on a steel bed, and the ...

  9. Bush carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Projects built according to properly drawn plans, for example, architectural blueprints, cannot be called examples of bush carpentry. The design of a barn or shed is likely to be intuitive and functional; the settler's slab hut derived from the vernacular English crofter's hut, a simple rectangular walled shelter with one door, and perhaps ...

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