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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.
Forest railway operations in Comandău, Romania (Photograph from 1996). A forest railway, forest tram, timber line, logging railway or logging railroad is a mode of railway transport which is used for forestry tasks, primarily the transportation of felled logs to sawmills or railway stations.
Operated with horses for first six months after construction before locomotives were available Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia: 1873–1876 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) Chile Mule-drawn Douglas Bay Horse Tramway: 1876–present 3 ft (914 mm) Douglas, Isle of Man: Shires and Clydesdales are used to pull a fleet of original tramcars along the seafront.
Others worked with horses and oxen to pull in the logs that had strayed furthest out into the flats. [7] Bateaux ferried log drivers using pike poles to dislodge stranded logs while maneuvering with the log drive. [10] A wannigan was a kitchen built on a raft which followed the drivers down the river. [7]
As the supply dwindled and loggers had to go farther from water, they used teams of oxen or horses for hauling. [2] These were superseded by steam-powered donkeys and locomotives.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]
Volunteers on mules are transporting essentials like food, water and insulin to Helene victims in mountainous parts of western North Carolina. All roads in western North Carolina are declared ...
Horses on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range in Montana. The BLM distinguishes between "herd areas" (HA) where feral horse and burro herds existed at the time of the passage of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, and "Herd Management Areas" (HMA) where the land is currently managed for the benefit of horses and burros, though "as a component" of public lands, part of ...