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A skidder is any type of heavy vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding", in which the logs are transported from the cutting site to a landing. There they are loaded onto trucks (or in times past, railroad cars or flumes), and sent to the mill. One exception is that in the early ...
The internal combustion log haulers (called Lombard tractors) were less powerful than the steam log haulers; and resembled a stake body truck on a skis and tracks chassis. The steam-powered haulers are thought to have been used as late as 1929. [9] At least ten of the Lombard tractors were preserved at Churchill Depot as recently as the 1960s. [10]
These were superseded by steam-powered donkeys and locomotives. [2] The final development was the logging truck. [2] A truck was used for logging in Covington, Washington, in 1913. [3] The coming of World War I and the resulting demand for the Pacific Northwest's Sitka spruce for airplanes "established log trucking in Washington". [3]
Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works Ltd Built steam wagons from 1904 to 1908 [2] Brown & May, Devizes, Wiltshire [3] Charles Burrell & Sons, Thetford, Norfolk – (MERL database entry) Clayton & Shuttleworth, Lincoln – (MERL database entry) Edwin Foden, Sons & Co., Sandbach, Cheshire; Durham and North Yorkshire Steam Cultivation Company Ltd
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Built for Forest Lumber Co. of Pine Ridge, Oregon in 1929; sold to Pickering Lumber Corp. of Standard, California, in 1940; one of only five surviving "Pacific Coast" Shay engines; [15] stored inoperable. No. 91: Heisler Locomotive Works: 3-truck "West Coast Special" Heisler tender engine [16] #1595 1930 1980 2011 No. 91 under steam at Expo 86
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China-based DJI and Autel Robotics could be banned from selling new drones in the United States market under an annual military bill set to be voted on later this week by the ...