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On a cable skidder, the cable is reeled out and attached to a pull of cut timber, then the winch pulls the load toward the skidder. The winch or grapple holds the trees while the skidder drags them to a landing area. Cable skidders are more labor-intensive than grapple skidders because someone (the operator or a second person) must drag the ...
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The towers are covered in wooden shingles, and are constructed of 12 inches (30 cm) beams. The main steel cables are about 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter, and connected to the bridge decking by 204 steel girders. The cable ends are anchored by concrete and granite blocks with an estimated weight of 30 tons. [3] The decking surface is wooden planks.
The company maintained a single 6-mile-long (10 km) iced haul road in Stetson, Maine, by nightly application of water from a sprinkler sled, and strung a telephone line with frequent call boxes to dispatch sled trains over that road. The company estimated those three Lombard log haulers did the work of 60 horses.
The Maine Central Railroad (reporting mark MEC) was a U. S. class 1 railroad [2] in central and southern Maine. It was chartered in 1856 and began operations in 1862. By 1884, Maine Central was the longest railroad in New England. Maine Central had expanded to 1,358 miles (2,185 km) when the United States Railroad Administration assumed control ...
As a WB affiliate, WPXT was originally branded on-air as "Maine's WB 51", but in 2004, changed to "Maine's WB" to reflect its status as the only over-the-air WB affiliate in the state. Although Bangor and Presque Isle also had affiliates, they were only provided on cable through The WB 100+ (a similar operation to Foxnet). WPXT's logo from 2007 ...
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Bangor: 5 19 W19FA-D: CBS: CW on 5.12, Catchy Comedy on 5.13, Circle on 5.14, Ion on 5.15, Grit on 5.16 : 13 5 WEXZ-LD Retro TV
U.S. Route 201 and Maine State Route 27 pass through the eastern side of the town following the Kennebec River. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 11.55 square miles (29.91 km 2 ), of which 11.24 square miles (29.11 km 2 ) is land and 0.31 square miles (0.80 km 2 ) is water. [ 1 ]