THE NEW PAUL BUNYAN

both and shrubs creates ideal conditions for all game sportsmen and lubberman work together because good forest management creates a paradise for hunters and fishermen [Music] growing and harvesting timber is so much like growing any other crop that the lumbermen has become a tree farmer when you see signs like this you know the land behind the sign has been dedicated to the permanent production of forest crops [Music] he likes a lawn to grow trees if the tree farmer often plans for harvests that he won't live to see old Paul didn't worry about growing new trees he left that for Mother Nature but the new Paul Bunyan knows that trees are one of civilizations most important materials he thinks of timber as a crop he works closely with nature plans for the necessary protection plans to keep the successive crops coming along he knows that some trees like these Douglas firs grow in dense stands of about the same age the best system of harvesting here is called area selection the result at first glance looks like a patchwork of cut and uncut areas but near each cut over piece there is always a carefully selected block of trees left in a place where they will throw seed onto the harvested areas nature will supply the winds the birds and animals to distribute the precious seeds to start another crop of trees growing up in the sunbathe cut over areas where trees grow and even stands area selection works well but the problem is different in a pine forest for instance where trees of all sizes and ages are mixed together here the new Paul Bunyan becomes selective he picks out mature trees for harvest a few to an acre and leaves many behind leaves them to grow and protects them given proper protection it takes twenty-five to fifty years to grow a harvest of pope poles and plantings tree growth that can be harvested for lumber comes in fifty to a hundred and twenty five years the new Paul Bunyan works in these long long cycles he uses both natural and artificial receding to keep growing and harvesting trees thereby assuring for future generations an adequate and permanent supply of forest products but growing and protecting trees is only a part of what the new Paul Bunyan is doing private logging road let's go along and see what's new at harvesting the new Paul Bunyan is determined not only to keep growing trees but when it's time to harvest he is equally determined to harvest the whole crop this is a pre logging operation and the point is if these trees weren't removed now they might be damaged or wasted during the main harvest [Music] [Applause] chokers are fastened around the logs and strong cables snake them into the land [Music] they're loaded on specially built trucks and driven to a nearby private railroad all these logs would have been discarded and left behind in the old days [Music] [Music] and here is modern ingenuity at work a whole truckload of logs lifted up and over in one unit and then lowered onto the waiting railroad car but this is only pre-law now we're ready for the major harvest we've come a long way from the logging methods of yet today even the saws are mechanized but there's still a thrill when the faller cries [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] bigger log loads call for bigger equipment more power more ability to maneuver today the woods resound with the forces of modern machinery great tractors and much specially built equipment look at the size of these logs and watch how easily they handled [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] before we leave these harvesting operations look over there at that Ridge while the new paul is harvesting the whole crop he hasn't forgotten the importance of growing new trees all that timber up there was left as a seed plot the throw seeds down here so that the whole cycle of growth and harvest will start over again meantime another long train load of sawlogs moves down from the woods thousands of miles of trucks and railroads lick the tree farmers in the milk [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is how they come to the milk many different species different sizes different grades arriving every day from the woods they're all dumped into the pond together and the problem is how to use all of each laws how to get the greatest degree abuse from everyone [Music] and here comes the boom boat squat too powerful this boat starts the movie begins the job of sorting the law [Music] down there closer to the mills boom men go to work with their Pike poles sorting out the various species grades and sizes floating them into the right pockets each pocket leads to a plant which has been especially designed to get the most value out of one particular kind and size of law some are better for lumber some for clothes some for plywood others will go into the more than 4,000 forest products which are made from wood a bull chain brings up the big laws try to look at them through the eyes of the new Paul but how can we use all of the law what can we do for example with the bark how to remove it this is solved by blasting the bark off with water for 1,300 pounds of pressure to the square inch [Music] Park free claim to handle logs move into the Sami [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] formerly as much as 20% of the logs could not be used now men plan to use everything the bark the slabs in hedging all the saw milling left off [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the major product of our forest is still lumber manufactured in thousands of mills all over America but just outside the lumber mill is an elaborate conveyor system moving the leftovers toward new processing plants you are looking at the raw material for new products hydraulically debarred logs can be processed much more efficiently into pulp and paper as a result 18% more of the wood and each puff log is recovered chipping is the first step whole logs are reduced to chips by enormous razor-sharp knives it's all done in a matter of seconds [Music] [Music] [Applause] and there they go screen chips of exactly the right size on their way to the pulp mill to be made into prime quality paper making fire [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now let's look at another example of modern utilization for the whole forest craft these specially selected logs are brought over here to be peeled and made into plywood the bark is removed drived by the specially designed departure the logs are literally peel down to a continuous ribbon of wood cutting to proper size the sheets are glued together and the dry park after being processed in a nearby plant has become an ingredient for glue used to bind the sheets into strong plywood parents wherever you look you'll see this kind of complete utilization out of that planning mill come dry shavings once they would have been burned today they are blown over to a by-product plant where under one hundred and sixty five thousand pounds of pressure they are formed into eight pound presto logs for use in fireplaces and furnaces and into smaller sizes for use in stalkers everything that can be used will be used the dry bark of fir trees once burned is now scientifically processed and marketed under the name of silver silver con is used in the manufacture of flooring materials plastics rubber products and a variety of other items essential to modern living meantime from the clean sound trimmings of Douglas fir comes the raw material for a wood fiber product silver sell because of its toughness and resiliency silver sell finds a wide usage ranging from oil well drilling to a highly efficient type of home insulation Overland shipments are loaded on trucks or trains from giant storage ships just beyond is the duck large enough for deepwater vessels to take on their cargoes [Music] the new Paul Bunyan plans his mill sites to use the whole of each new harvest this means he must manage his tree farm so growth and harvest will be in balance thus assuring a perpetual supply of raw materials for his mills and a permanent and profitable investment from the air you can look down and see the integration of the modern mill same plants for making lumber pole plywood paper insulation presto logs in all the growing list of new products over in the research laboratory work goes ahead steadily in all phases of wood technology research and development out of the painstaking laboratory work like this comes steady progress towards more crop and the creation of new products for America's use there is a steady improvement in the major product building with better quality better packaging better identification there are a great many new ideas new possibilities in the use of America's one building material there are many new structural ideas like these engineered wood trusses and along with all the new developments we still know that dignity the enduring beauty of wood paneling in our offices and in our homes after all wood built America for out of funds are built of wood all of them use wood in some form we need our forest products for that newspaper and that rayon dress in our homes and schools [Music] truly there is a new paul bunyan in the woods growing and protecting his future harvest son carefully managed tree farms making use of the pool of his craft in nearby mills building a stable permanent industry and assuring huge however more abundant enjoyment of the products of the forest