Pulpwood- and log-production costs in 1945 as compared with 1940
1945
Reynolds, R. R. (Russell Roy)
The Southern Forest Experiment Station in 1940 made a study of pulpwood- and sawlog-production costs in the western part of the pine-hardwood region of the Lower South. The war has significantly altered the costs observed in 1940. Labor efficiency has dropped. Wage rates have risen. Transportation costs have gone up because of the shortage of new trucks, high maintenance costs, poor tires, and the increased price of equipment and supplies such as trucks, tools, and feed. Supervision costs have risen with the change from contract to direct-employment operations. In order to determine how far pulpwood- and log-production costs have risen since 1940, a study has been made to bring the old figures up to date and to draw a comparison between 1945 and 1940. It must be remembered that this comparison covers only part of the steps of production between the tree and the finished product. There are other elements of lumber-production cost, for example, that are not here considered. The data do not, therefore, show changes in total cost of finished products. It must be remembered, too, that the data apply only to dry-weather logging in the Crossett, Ark., area, though they are in such form that they can readily be revised to apply to other conditions and localities.
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