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Show Entering its third month of operation at Kaibab sawmill located in Panguitch. the Jeffrey Hammer Hog is a system of waste disposal now employed at the logging operation, replacing the former "burn" method of "It may not be much to look at or listen to" stated Kaibab Sawmill plant manager, Carl Keepf of the recent addition of the Jeffrey Hammer Hog, "but it meets the standards required for air quality control for the present time." Beginning its third month of operation, the "hog", a name coined by disposal. The "hog" a term aptly coined by Kaibab employees is fully automatic but additional workers are needed to maintain the landfill operation necessary to this type of disposal system. 'Hog' Helps Provide Air Quality plant workers, replaces the old burning system formerly used at the Panguitch sawmill. Employing a series of 12-100 lb. hammers, the.machinery takes slabs and edgings from the sawmill cuttings and through continuous beating, hammers mill scraps forcing them through grates and onto a conveyor system which carries residue to large capacity storage bin for holding and later transport to a landfill operation. Costing approximately $70,000.00 for machinery alone, Keepf pointed out that "an even greater expense lies in maintenance and operation of the landfill required to accomodate this type of system for sawmill waste disposal. The "hammer hog" itself, is fully automatic and now that early technical design problems have been remedied, it actually requires very little maintenance. Heavy hammers must be rotated every six weeks and replaced every 4-5 months. However, the landfill operation requires a team of two men full time just to keep pace with the hauling and burying of the end product of the sawmill hog system. The landfill is maintained 12 miles north of Panguitch on a 160 acre parcel leased by Kaibab Industries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a period of 20 years. One man, on duty all day at the landfill site, uses a cat with scrapper attached, to dig burial pits 16 feet wide by 10 foot deep by 400 foot in length. It takes about one week to fully dig a pit and approximately same length of time to fill one to capacity, A second worker, using a 22 ton live bottom truck, transports one load per hour to the landfill site and driving straight over previous dumpings, unloads the truck fairly evenly by driving across the full length of the pit. The landfill site worker digs each new pit to the 8 foot level and always stays a couple pits ahead of the ongoing dumping. Once a 10 foot cleared pit has been filled to capacity, the worker digs the remaining two foot of extra dirt from adjacent pit to cover the top of the filled pit. Landfill operations, which required much detailed planning, seem to be running very smoothly. Thinking ahead to adverse winter conditions in the Panguitch area, Kaibab workers have prepared some 20 pits in advance. If poor weather conditions interupt digging for a time, workers feel they are sufficiently well prepared to handle burial operations until added digging of pits could be resumed. Continually striving to enhance operations at the Panguitch plant, manager Keepf now looks forward to completion of a log bucking and sorting system which is anticipated will "in sure accurate log lengths in sorting and separate log species." |