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Originally Posted by GOPAPA
When I worked in the sawmill the lumber (boards) were pulled off the green chain and planer chain and put on Jitney blocks and between the rows of boards ever so often to keep the stack of lumber straight and steady to haul away by a lumber carrier or fork truck we used "Stickers" They were rough cut 1/4 inch to 3/8 inch I think ? 4 feet long
A Jitney was a lumber carrier that staddled the loads of lumber and picked the load up by use of the jitney blocks .
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Yeah we sometimes just parked the forklift and stacked directly onto it as it was sawed. Mostly it was 6x6x8' for t&g house logs and I stacked them in bunks of 48 with sticks between the rows and then banded it and set it aside to air dry. That sixth row was exercise to get up there for a little guy like me
If the forklift was busy elsewhere like the other crew running the planers then I just stacked the 6x6's on timbers so the forklift could move the complete bunk out of the way.
This was a little bitty sawmill way up in the mountains. The scenery was incredible
