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Stoplogs are hydraulic engineering control elements that are used in floodgates to adjust the water level or discharge in a river, canal, or reservoir. Stoplogs are designed to cut off or stop flow through a conduit. They are typically long rectangular timber beams or boards that are placed on top of each other and dropped into premade slots ...
The Scotia Mill and log pond. Pacific Lumber (or PL, as locals have known it for generations) began during the heat of the US Civil War in 1863 when A. W. McPherson and Henry Wetherbee purchased 6,000 acres (24 km 2) of timberland on California's Eel River at the rate of $1.25 per acre. Over the ensuing 20 years they added more partners and ...
The Yosemite Lumber Company was an early 20th century Sugar Pine and White Pine logging operation in the Sierra Nevada. [1] The company built the steepest logging incline ever, a 3,100 feet (940 m) route that tied the high-country timber tracts in Yosemite National Park to the low-lying Yosemite Valley Railroad running alongside the Merced River.
JA Industries is an American firearms manufacturer based in Henderson, Nevada. The company's origins trace to 1978, with the formation of Jennings Firearms. This company eventually filed bankruptcy and subsequently reorganized as Bryco Arms. Bryco filed bankruptcy in 2003 and was subsequently purchased by Paul Jimenez, who established Jimenez ...
The Holt 75 model gasoline-powered Caterpillar tractor used early in World War I as an artillery tractor. Later models were produced without the front "tiller wheel." The Holt Manufacturing Company began with the 1883 founding of Stockton Wheel Service in Stockton, California, United States. [3][4][5] Benjamin Holt, later credited with ...
SawStop is an American table saw manufacturer headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon. The company was founded in 2000 to manufacture table saws that feature a patented automatic braking system that stops the blade upon contact with skin or flesh. Table saws are "by far the most dangerous woodworking tool." [1] The operator holds the wood, rather ...
This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. Defunct manufacturing companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area (22 P) Manufacturing companies based in Oakland, California (16 P) Manufacturing companies based in San Francisco (1 C, 41 P) Manufacturing companies based in San Jose, California (4 C, 51 P)
Manufacturing companies based in San Jose, California (4 C, 52 P) Manufacturing companies based in Greater Los Angeles (9 C, 72 P) Manufacturing companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area (15 C, 31 P)