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In the late 19th century a new technology known as the skidder was introduced to the Texas logging industry.
It's a car or a truck or a skidder, she thought suddenly.
At the construction site, Andy sees "a huge skidder."
Also a sledge used for moving felled trees in the same way as the wheeled skidder.
Trees that have been previously felled and moved to a landing with a log skidder are spread out for processing.
Mr. Ballard, who is 75, was at this moment leading off first base after legging out a skidder.
She hadn't seen Breyguhn since the northern winter and that mean-spirited attack in the skidder rink.
Breyguhn had taken great delight in charging Sharrow's skidder several times during the last ride.
The winch or grapple holds the trees while the skidder drags them to a landing area.
Sharrow kicked at the accelerator but the skidder's automatics had shut the engine off.
Today, other than the occasional stray skidder cable or railroad tie, there is little immediate evidence that logging ever took place in the area.
If you're a skidder on skis, you'll either kill yourself learning or you'll be forced to learn to ski correctly."
"This operation - one fellow with a chain saw dropping trees, a skidder pulling them out - is fairly typical of Connecticut," she said.
Ground vehicles such as a skidder or forwarder can pull, carry, or shovel the logs.
What is a skidder?
In some areas the skidder (chainsaw) crews have been replaced by the feller buncher and harvester.
Her husband neatly dropped a 90-foot oak; his helper, Rick Connolly, readied the skidder.
The Washington Winch is a steam-powered logging skidder, or cable winch.
The skidder consisted of a railway car with a crane assembly and long cables that dragged logs from the forest after they were felled.
A positive thing about the skidder is that while wood is being yarded (pulled), tree particles and seeds are cultivated into the soil.
There had been no insurance, other than what Stanchfield had been obliged to carry on his Jimmy and his skidder.
The skidder can also be used for pulling tree stumps, pushing over small trees, and preliminary grading of a logging path known as a "skid road".
Breyguhn claimed later she had turned back against the flow of traffic to see if she could help Sharrow, after noticing that her skidder had stopped.
It was not until the invention of the Shay locomotive and the steam-powered skidder that large-scale logging of the mountains' timber became profitable.
Skid Row was the route used by a logging skidder during a conservative timber harvest on the Harrington and Elliott property.