Skidder
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skidder-311-1717858
title:
Skidder
text:
A skidder is any type of heavy vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding", in which the logs are transported from the cutting site to a landing. There they are loaded onto trucks, and sent to the mill. One exception is that in the early days of logging, when distances from the timberline to the mill were shorter, the landing stage was omitted altogether, and the "skidder" would have been used as the main road vehicle, in place of the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of heavy vehicle used in logging operations to pull cut trees out of a forest
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skidder
date created:
date modified:
2024-03-19T01:41:47Z
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