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Horse logging is the use of horses or mules in forestry. In the modern industrialized world, it is often part of sustainable forest management. Horses may be used for skidding and other tasks. [1] Net net and gross production rates using horse logging in a Romanian study were of 2.63 m 3 /h and 1.44 m 3 /h. [2]
Steffi Schaffler, chair of the British Horse Loggers Charitable Trust, said: “Horse logging is a method of extracting timber from forestry sites that is sensitive, sustainable and effective ...
Two-wheeled skidding with Percheron horses. Skidding in forestry is the first operation after logging: it consists of transporting felled trees from the felling site to a temporary dumping site, known technically as a "loader", near a road or track suitable for further transport.
Horse logging in Poland Cable logging in French Alps (cable grue Larix 3T) Trees and plants are felled and transported to the roadside with top and limbs intact. There have been advancements to the process which now allows a logger or harvester to cut the tree down, top, and delimb a tree in the same process. This ability is due to the ...
Horse skidder with high wheels. Early skidders were pulled by a team of oxen, horses or mules. The driver would straddle the cart over felled logs, where dangling tongs would be positioned to raise the end of the log off the ground. The team pulled the tongue forward, allowing the log to "skid" along between the rolling wheels.
A horse harness is a device that connects a horse to a horse-drawn vehicle or another type of load to pull. There are two main designs of horse harness: (1) the breast collar or breaststrap, and (2) the full collar or collar-and-hames. For pulling heavy loads, a full collar is required because it distributes pressure over a larger area of the ...
The American average, for reference, is 3.4 per 100,000, making logging 39 times more dangerous than the average job in the U.S. So what is it that loggers do on a daily basis, and why does it ...
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