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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 ...
Skidding (forestry) 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. This name is still applied to the first ...
After the war many types of these tractors were stripped of their military components and used for log skidders and power line construction. Many were used as carriers for rock drills, used in logging road construction in British Columbia. The first prototype was designed in the early 1960s by G.M. Philpott Ltd. of Vancouver, BC, and Scott ...
A feller buncher is a type of harvester used in logging. It is a motorized vehicle with an attachment that can rapidly gather and cut a tree before felling it. Feller is a traditional name for someone who cuts down trees, [1] and bunching is the skidding and assembly of two or more trees. [2] A feller buncher performs both of these harvesting ...
Log bucking. A crew of log buckers with crosscut saws in 1914. [1] Bucking is the process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs. [2] Significant value can be lost by sub-optimal bucking because logs destined for plywood, lumber, and pulp each have their own value and specifications for length, diameter, and defects.
The Lombard Steam Log Hauler, patented 21 May 1901, was the first successful commercial application of a continuous track for vehicle propulsion. [1][2][3] The concept was later used for military tanks during World War I and for agricultural tractors and construction equipment following the war.
A yarder is piece of logging equipment that uses a system of cables to pull or fly logs from the stump to a collection point. [ 1] It generally consists of an engine, drums, and spar, but has a range of configurations and variations, such as the swing yarder . Madill 124 Yarder. An example of modern yarders still being used in logging industry.
Shovel logging. Shovel logging, sometimes called Hoe Chucking, uses a log loader to swing logs to the forest road. Shovel logging is one of a number of methods that may be used to move logs from forest to road. Rather than driving out to the log and dragging it back to the landing, the loader moves slowly across the harvest area, grabbing logs ...
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