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Portable Electric Conveyor Removes Empty Cones From Kiln

This motor-driven portable conveyor does a fast job of removing dried empty cones from the portable automatic cone kiln which has been in use at the Mt. Shasta Nursery for the past ten years 1. The conveyor, designed and built by James E. Higgens, a maintenance worker at the nursery, has been in use for the past two years there. It has proven practical and efficient, and has saved between $500 and $800 a season in labor costs, depending on the volume of the cone crop processed. Formerly the empty cones from which the seeds had been removed were raked out of the bottom of the kiln by hand and loaded into a cart, a cumbersome and timeconsuming chore. The new conveyor handles with ease all the cones processed in the four portable kilns at the nursery.


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Author(s): Karl B. Landquist

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 18, Number 4 (1967)

Volume: 18

Number: 4