Short dunnage.

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is not cut, then the stack must be broken down layer by

(2) One problem that often confronts storage

layer rather than by column.

personnel is whether to use pallets or short dunnage.

This should be easily solved by remembering one of the

principal objectives in materials handling: "to transport

(2) In some instances in outside storage, long

and stack as much as is humanly or mechanically

dunnage is used-merely because "that's the way we

possible in one load, under existing conditions, with an

have always done it"-rather than as a result of a careful

eye to cost, speed, and safety-- in other words, to do the

study of the problem. For example, in stacking drums,

job efficiently." Therefore, IF AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF

the use of long dunnage on top of each layer is

MATERIAL CAN BE HANDLED EFFICIENTLY ON

sometimes used to get a more stable and more even

EITHER PALLET OR SHORT DUNNAGE, SHORT

stack-- and supposedly to facilitate handling. Actually, if

DUNNAGE IS MORE ECONOMICAL.

the surface of the storage area is leveled off by use of

long dunnage (floor dunnage) and the drums are

pyramided with blocks placed under the front and rear of

g. Vertical dunnage.

the stack, the job will be much easier, more compact,

and much more stable. This method of forming block

-- "Pieces of DUNNAGE can ALSO be used in a

stacks is known as PYRAMIDAL stacking. Six inches of

VERTICAL position to STABILIZE CRUSHABLE ITEMS

long dunnage should be placed on the ground, but no

and to SPREAD WEIGHT OF PALLET LOADS."

dunnage is needed between the tiers. Wedge-- shaped

-- "WHERE in your warehouses have you used

blocks or butt boards can be used at the end of tiers for

VERTICAL DUNNAGE?" Pieces of dunnage can be

stability.

used in a vertical position to stabilize crushable items

and to spread the weight of pallet loads.

Short dunnage.

h. Binders.

-- "We usually refer to SHORT DUNNAGE as meaning

pieces of LUMBER 2 by 4 inches or 4 by 4 inches, cut in

-- "Strips of PAPER, FIBERBOARD, or BURLAP, and

2- to 4-lengths."

sometimes thin strips of WOOD, can be used to 'TIE'

-- "What is the MOST COMMON USE of SHORT

columns of MATERIALS TOGETHER."

DUNNAGE?"

-- "In some depots, they speak of these types of binders

as DUNNAGE."

SPACERS BETWEEN BOXES PERMITTING

-- "We should refer to them simply as BINDERS."

USE OF FORKS FOR LIFTING

-- '"When and WHERE do you think that such a method

can be used to advantage?"

-- "WHERE are you using SHORT DUNNAGE, and in

BETWEEN LAYERS OF SLIPPERY CON

handling WHAT COMMODITIES?"

TAINERS

-- "How do you DETERMINE WHETHER to use

BETWEEN THE TWO TOP LAYERS OF A

PALLETS or SHORT DUNNAGE?"

PALLET WHICH NEEDS STABILITY BE

-- "When using SHORT DUNNAGE be sure that it is cut

CAUSE IT HAS NOT BEEN CROSS

to the CORRECT SIZE and RIGHT AMOUNT-- READY

STACKED

BEFORE you START the job."

(1) Usually, this type of dunnage is cut fro m

-- "WHAT

OTHER

MEANS,

besides

CROSS

pieces of 2- by 4-inch lumber and is used primarily in

STACKING and BINDING, can we USE for STA

handling heavy boxes that do not lend them selves to

BILIZING and TYING TOGETHER ODD SHAPED and

palletizing such as refrigerators, machinery, and similar

SLIPPERY ITEMS on PALLETS or in BLOCK

items. Short dunnage serves to separate the containers

STACKS?"

so that the forks of the truck can be inserted for

transporting and stacking the commodity. Care should

CORD or STRING STRAPPING

be taken in cutting this type of dunnage so that there is

sufficient dunnage to do the job and that it is cut in

(1) Strips of paper, fiberboard, or burlap, and sometimes

correct lengths. Dunnage to be used in handling a

thin strips of wood can be used to "tie" columns

container 30 inches deep should to cut between 28 and

together. Although such storage aids are sometimes

30 inches. UNDER NO CONDITIONS SHOULD IT BE

referred to as "dunnage," they are actu

CUT SO THAT IT EXTENDS BEYOND THE LIMITS OF

THE CONTAINER.

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