. Canadian forest industries July-December 1917. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER July ir>, 1917 High-Lead Logging Widely Used in Western Gamps Find Method Introduced in 1907 a Valuable Solution of Yarding and Loading Problems—Description of the System During the past year or so a great deal of attention has been given by Coast loggers to high lead yarding. Although the "high lead" is an old system, having been used in the South for twenty odd years under the name of the semi-portable
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1917. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER July ir>, 1917 High-Lead Logging Widely Used in Western Gamps Find Method Introduced in 1907 a Valuable Solution of Yarding and Loading Problems—Description of the System During the past year or so a great deal of attention has been given by Coast loggers to high lead yarding. Although the "high lead" is an old system, having been used in the South for twenty odd years under the name of the semi-portable skidder, and now practically abandoned in favor of the "portable pine logger," and the various forms of cableway skidders, it never until the past couple of years has been used extensively on the Coast. The first high lead on the Coast was used about 1907 by H. B. Gardner in Washington, who brought the idea with him from the. South. In British Columbia James McNaughton used the first high lead at the camp of the Canadian Western Lumber Company, Comox, in 1913. During the past two years the system has spread to nearly every camp in the province. Operators welcomed it as a means of getting away from the difficulties of ground yarding, with its rocks and stumps, and roots and mud, and heavy rigging; without the great expense and cumbersomeness of the cableway skidder. As the use of the high lead spread the system rapidly became improved in its details by the logger and the equipment manufacturer. Special high speed engines were produced, special loading engines to care for the increased yarding capacity, and specially efficient blocks and other rigging. Until recently the yarding and loading has been carried on 1)} the same machine, or by a yarder and a loader operating as one unit, or as two units operating at the same time. Not long ago, however, one of the large B. C. companies made what seems to be a further improvement in the complete separation of the yarding and
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