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The wor=
lds 2nd=
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st
Profession
•<=
/span>The working and shaping of wood came long before t=
he working of stone. Men probably used a properly sha=
ped tree limb as a fighting weapon as soon as they cli=
mbed down from the tree.
•<=
/span>I have a ship’s manifest from 1633 showing t=
he
shipping of 40,000 “=
pipe
staves” from the colony of Maryland to England.
•<=
/span>The 2nd Lord Baltimore, George Calvert, says in hi=
s advertising brochure to colonize his Maryland land=
(1630) that a servant can make 2,000 – 3,000
“pipe staves=
”
while not engaged in working the plantation land of Maryland.
•<=
/span>The Boston Tea Party was about the rum tax –=
not
Tea. =
More rum barrels went into the harbor (empty) than=
tea.
Recent History
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What I
Remember
•<=
/span>In the early 1900’s the Bryant family had lu=
mber
and mining operation in Arkansas.
By the late 1930&#=
8217;s
C.H. Bryant began setting up a series of interlocking partnerships to oper=
ate
stave mills.
•Because the transportation of raw material was slo=
w and
expensive, it was the practice to move the stave mill to the timber and ship only the pro=
duced
staves. Each mill had three =
equal
partners. Mr. Bryant supplied the capital, supervised the
accounting, and sold the staves.
The second partn=
er
found and purchased the standing timber, moved a mill into place, and
supervised start up operat=
ions
to harvest the timber and saw the staves.=
The third partner moved close to the mill and operated the mill and local timber harvesting =
until
the transportation of the white oak “bolts” in <=
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>that area became too expensive. The procedure was then repeated i=
n a
new area.
•<=
/span>This successful arrangement was repeated many time=
s in
many states where white oak was plentiful. By the mid 1950’s transport=
ation
had improved and a mill could transport white oak timber from a larger area. The mills became more permanent a=
nd
relied on normal growth in the larger
area to create a continuous supply of suitable white oak. As the mills became more <=
/span>permanent the partnerships began to dissolve. Generally the local partner conti=
nued
to operate the mill as an
independent sole owner.
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Company=
Owned
Timber Harvesting
•When a large tract of timber was purchased or seve=
ral
adjoining tracts were purcha=
sed a
stave mill was set up near the center of the timber.
•The white oak trees were dropped and the stem was =
cut
into 40” lengths=
.
•Crews of men followed the cutters and split the
40” cuts into stave bolts
using a maul and wedges.
•The stave bolts were then loaded onto sleds or drag
carts and a tractor (crawler =
or
wheel depending on terrain) pulled the load to the =
stave mill.
<=
span
style=3D'font-size:63%'>•All the unused portion of the tree was left where =
it
fell.
Company Timber Harvest Crew
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