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- 1967-10
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
October, 1967, scenes from an Idaho mill. A Potlatch Forests, Inc., employee must carefully monitor the controls of the Chip-N-Saw as it processes logs. A Simpson Timber electrician patented the process in the very early '60s using the general concept of turning logs directly into lumber and pulp quality chips without any waste wood or slabs left over. Logs could be fed through in a continuous stream. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York, for Potlatch Forests' 1967 annual report. (www.forestnet.com/archives/Feb_05/sawmilling1.htm)
Logs; Saws; Machinery; Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970;