The Harvester World: Volume 3, number 11, November 1912

              The Harvester World

WAGON SHIPMENTS—WEBER WORKS

By C. A. ScHLORFF, Shipping Foreman
Shipping finished wagons is fraught with many hid¬ den dangers inconceivable to the inexperienced. So many peculiar and special kinds of wagons are being manufactured daily, so many changes and improve¬ ments in the construction of wagons are going on con¬ stantly, that it is well nigh impossible to keep track of all of them and ship out correctly, if one is not contin¬ ually on his mettle and giving attention to his utmost capacity.
Of course we console ourselves and think better times are coming when shipping will be made easier—but when ? The first thing the foreman of shipping depart¬ ment tries to ascertain is how much is going to be manufactured for next season and how much daily— how much estimated daily room he requires and how much that will leave him for extras. On being supplied with the data, he lays out his space in the warehouses and discovers that he will run short of room. He immediately begins to kick to the superintendent for more room but is seldom successful, and all that is left for him to do then is to try to make the old quarters do, if possible, for another year, which taxes his ingenuity to its utmost.
Taking care of stock coming from paint shop to be stored in the warehouse prior to shipping (the shipping of which ranges from one day to three months, some¬ times longer) is one great factor. To store at the least expense and with an eye to the minimum expense is another, and to remove same for shipment is a third. So much lost motion and so many loop holes, that in
Believe me, the comparative statements are O. K.    They make one sit up and take notice.
Prior to moving stock from the paint shop to shipping rooms comes our friend "Quality." (Quality never bothers shipping department if kept moving from paint
The most popular place at the Nebraska State Fair.   C. E. Haynie's much-used Rest Room, as it looked at rest
shop direct to cars.) Quality, quality, and again, quality, is being everlastingly preached to us by our superintendent, C. A. Hanson. We work with it, dine with it, sleep with it, dream about it, breakfast with it and again start working with it in the morning. In fact it has come to be flesh and blood with us.
Our wagons are inspected by an inspection depart¬ ment in the factory but in addition we have men who re-inspect before allowing goods to come to the ware¬ houses, a double inspection, one might say; also, another inspection when goods are moved from warehouses to cars for final distribution, surely insuring quality and and the best of quality.
In loading wagons into cars the utmost care is taken. We do not try to rush and slam-bang them into cars
J. D. Hooper, of Westminster, Md., on a Sight-Seeing Trip
from his home to Gettysburg, Pa.   This Picture was
taken at Devil's Den on the Battlefield
IHC Car owned by C. A. Greiner, Terre Haute, Ind. for the U. S. Mail Service
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themselves look so insignificant and hardly noticeable, are encountered, that it surprises one when a compar¬ ative statement is furnished from other works. We are prone to pat ourselves on the back and say "Oh, we are all right; nothing the matter with us, we have got 80 and so skinned to death," when behold, we happen to see an item in the comparative statement which takes away our breath, makes our eyes bulge out and we say,  "By  George, he has got one on me any way."
but go at it carefully, loading scientifically, if you please, brace securely and use plenty—sometimes it seems too much—of lumber. But the results justify the expense and we get the goods to the customer in tip-top shape. Here is where we would like to entreat our great friends, the dealers or agents receiving wagons, to please caution their unloaders to use as much care in taking wagons out of cars as we exercise in loading them, and we believe we would have superfine results.