HOW THE MODERN LOGGING BRIGADE WORKS; RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TIMBER INDUSTRY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600261002-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1002
• Publication Date: November 28, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Functions of Brigade in Continuous Method of Logging
The Timiryazevskiy Model-Experimental Timber Management carries on logging
operations on pine land with resources of 200 cubic meters per hectare. It
hauls its loge by narrow-gauge railroad to the bark of the Tom River. There
they are delivered to a wood-transporting combine locatdd on the opposiv4
shore, in rafts tugged across the river during the summer and by cable-drawn
sled during the winter.
The continuous method was inaugurated at the tinfber management in Decem-
ber 1948. The author was entrusted with the task of organizing the enter-
prise to operate according to the new method.
Within 5 days after conversion to the continuous method, labor productiv-
ity rose 20-30 percent. In the first quarter of 1949, 62 percent of the manage-
ment's production program for the entire year was fulfilled. Average output
during the quarter for the complete production cycle was 2.5 cubic meters per
man-day; for the felling, skidding, bucking, and loading operations, it was
3.9 cubic meters per man-day.
Ap to 3 days.is required for the complete production cycle from felling
a tree to unloading the .Log on the bank of the Tom River.
The Badzheyskiy Timber Management of the Srasles Trust, the Nechunayevskiy
Timber Management of the Dbveibles and the Ulbatskiy Timber Management
of the Shaksslea TYrast are anther West Siberian enterprises which operate with
the continuous method and show results similar to those of the Timiryazevekiy
Timber Management. All of these enterprises of Glavzapsibles (Main Administra-
tion of West Siberian Timber) are organized on the basis of complex brigades.
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A complex brigade performs a number of related tanks and is an easily con-
trolled unit. The productive capacities of the sections performing subsequent
operations are dependent on those of sections performing previous operations.
A brigade carries out a cycle of operations from felling to loading the logs
onto the are of the logging railroad at the yarding point.
Each brigade consists of 25 - 28 men, divided into five sections:
operator, worker witi ;ant hook (valochnaya?vilka), three branch trimmers, and
two brush burners. A felling section produces from 120 to 130 cubic meters of
logs per dry.
average skidding s,jctio. has two or three XT-i2 tractors. Each tractor requires
three workers, a tractor dri7 r and two chokermen.
3. Backing section of three n:n> electric saw operator, his assistant,
and. a laborer. They work at the yarding point next to the logging railroad.
4. Sorting section of two men: the two workers, each with a horse, s6rit
the bucked logs into three groups, prop timbe7, other types of commercial timber,
5. Loading section of six men, At present, loading onto logging train
flat cars is performed manually since the timber management has no mechanical
hoisting equipment. Introduction of single-dram hoists is being planned for
loading.
Electrical mechanics and saw service men who work at the mobile electric
power plant are not included in the composition of a brigade.
The duties of the supervisor of complex brigades include getting the work
in the cutting area and at the yarding point started,-assigning brigades to
their proper places, seeing to it that technical performance standards are
fulfilled and that safety rules are observed in all phases of operations,
taking measures to assure uninterrupted continuous operations, an& making
standard reports on expenditures for operations and the output of all workers.
All inspection is carried on at the yarding point. As the logs are brought
in by the skidding tractors, the inspector measures the diameter of the butt end
of the loge and records the number of loge brought in according to thickness. On
the basis of this data, the output of the fallers, branch triniers, and brush
burners is determined. The Ministr,#k of Wood and Paper Industry USER had decreed
that output from these operations be determined on the basis of the number of
individual logs felled. The inspector also measures the assized diameter, which
is sate 1.3 meters from the butt end, to determine the cubic content of the
ski3ded logs. This measurement determines the output of the individual tractor
operators.
After the bucking operation has been competed and the bucked loge loaded
on flatcars, a second inspection is carried out. The results of this inspec-
tion form the basis for making out the reports on transport of timber and deter-
mine the output of the buckeye, sorters, and loaders. They also serve the pur-
pose of determining the total production of the tractor drivers. Logs not
loaded are not credited toward the output of the sections engaged in. skidding,
bucking, sorting, and loading.
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If the final figures after bucking do not agree with the preliminary figures
before bucking, the difference is prorated among the drivers on the basis of
their relative efficiency.
Final determination of the output of the tractor drivers on the basis of
bucked logs permits precise computation of the -results of skidding operations.
The preliminary figures obtained by the second method of measurement noted
a part of the complex 'brigade, they get a pay bonua when they orerfulfill
their assigned tasks.
For every complex brigade, the following documents are made out daily:
(1) report of expenditures for operations; (2) report on the number of trees
felled in the cutting area, listed according to diameter of their butt err ;
and (3) report on the quantity of timber loaded, in cubic meters.
Wages are paid to the workers by sections on the basis of these reports.
Wages are computed for the sections twice each month. Within the sections,
total wages for the section are distributed to the individual workers on the
basis of wage-scale coefficients. -- Engr M. S. Miller, SibPIILM (Siberian
Scientific Experimental Institute for Wood Economy and Wood Utilization)
Scrapers with cable control are being used more and more for construction
cf logging roadc. When used in conjunction with bulldozers, mechanization of
laborious earth-moving work is almost an accomplished fact.
The D-147 Scraper
The main features of the D-147 cable-controlled scraper, which is used
for logging road construction, are as follows:
The scraper is a twin-axle machine on pneumatic tired wheels and is drawn by
an S-80 tractor. Its scoop has a capacity of 6 - 8 cubic meters of earth. When
moving earth for a distance of 600 - 800 meters, its productivity is between
200 and 250 cubic meters per shift.
Scoop capacity
6-8 cu m
Width of earth-cutting blade
2,590 mm
Maximum cutting depth
300 mm
Spreading depth
400 mm
Distance between front wheels
1,640 mm
Distance between rear wheels
1,780 mm
Length
9,140 mm
Width
3,150 mm
Wight of empty scraper
7,200 mm
V. R. Froto4, chief engineer, Glavlestransotroy,
Main Adm of Timber Transport Construction
Seagoing "Cigar" Rafts
Floating of timber in seagoing "cigar" rafts was initiated in 1945 on the
Black Sea and has been successfully carried on since that time.
These rafts were planned in two sizes. The smaller were to have a cubic
content of 2,000 cubic meters, be 72 meters long, 12 meters wide, and 6 'stare
high. The larger were to be 3,000 cubic meters in volume, 100 meters long, 12
meters wide, and 7.2 meters h1'gh. 1'
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In practice, the cubic content of small rafts varied between 1,800 and 2,000
cubic meters, of large rafts, between 2,800 and 3,000 cubic meters. Their beam
ranged up to 14 and 15 meters, their freeboard between 5 and 6.5 meters, and
per R aft
?n-day (cu m)
1945
1946
1947
1945
1946
1947
Large
18.4
12.3
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2.94
3.90
4:.02
Small
15.0
10.7
9.4
2.47
3.67
3.70
750 - 1,500-horsepower seagoisp, tugs or freighters.
Brigade Leaders Report, Progress
men, skidding with horses on log slides or log roads.
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A brigade of 50 - 60 man is needed to construct a cigar raft.