. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Nestos overhead snubbing system. Under some conditions an overhead snubbing method can be used to swing logs to better advantage than any other method. This was true of the following case: An operator had a* limited amount of timber, which stood on a UPPER Lowef^. Fig. 50.—Carriage, Nestos overhead snubbing ^stom. bench 400 feet above the railroad, the slope between the bench and the railroad falling away so ra,pidly that the use of a pole road or chute was out of the question. It was decided to use an overhead snubbin
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Nestos overhead snubbing system. Under some conditions an overhead snubbing method can be used to swing logs to better advantage than any other method. This was true of the following case: An operator had a* limited amount of timber, which stood on a UPPER Lowef^. Fig. 50.—Carriage, Nestos overhead snubbing ^stom. bench 400 feet above the railroad, the slope between the bench and the railroad falling away so ra,pidly that the use of a pole road or chute was out of the question. It was decided to use an overhead snubbing system of the type shown in figure 49. A wire cable If inches in diameter and 2,000 feet long was used as a standing line. One end of this line was fastened to a stump. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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