. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Logging Rough Slopes by Cableway Skidder. same general lines, with detail difference mainly in boom support and block suspension; further, the Clyde machine has small hand winches for guy tightening, while the Lidgerwood machine accomplishes this by changing the boom position by the engines. In very small numbers, various operators and others have con- structed other forms of more or less portable snakers, generally utiliz- ing features of the machines just described.
. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Logging Rough Slopes by Cableway Skidder. same general lines, with detail difference mainly in boom support and block suspension; further, the Clyde machine has small hand winches for guy tightening, while the Lidgerwood machine accomplishes this by changing the boom position by the engines. In very small numbers, various operators and others have con- structed other forms of more or less portable snakers, generally utiliz- ing features of the machines just described. The design of a some- what novel one, named the Pearl River Logger of the Wilmot Machine Company is one of them. This consists of a drum snaking engine and boiler mounted on a flat car, and ahead of it on another car is mounted a horizontal spar or boom, from which at intervals hang the skidding blocks. There was no intention of loading with this machine, but simply to pull the logs to side of right of way. I am not aware that any plant wos constructed from this design; the possible drawback 'is its cumbersome size, and low hanging skidding blocks, thus lacking the desirable "rise*' to the line necessary in proper skidding and deck- ing. This conception is simply mentioned to indicate the variety of design possible in this line. The Pond Snaker, so called because of its frequent use in pulling logs across the ponds or sloughs of the pine woods, is a light, inex- pensive and under certain conditions, efficient machine. It is very simple, consisting of a one or two horsepower, which is mounted on broad tired wheels, or long runners or skids similar to Coast yarders, and similarly pulls itself about the woods. Skidding blocks are generally hung to a tree for proper line lead in various directions and the logs hauled out of impossible places to the machine, from whence they can be taken by team or traction engine. Provinces, and to a large variety of local conditions. Further
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