| Giving the driver a nod, the truck gunned it, and sped back onto the more secure skidder tail. |
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| On sites accessible to a bulldozer or a skidder, equipping the machines with a scarification rake permits rapid, shallow scalping of the area. |
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| Production functions were derived to predict skidder performance over a range of operating conditions. |
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| Description: We see a skidder hauling uncut trees to a site where they will be cut and stripped on their branches. |
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| The picture right shows a cooling bath for corrugated tube from 40 to 63mm of diameter, with skidder adjustably in speed. |
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| Harvesting was completed with a feller-buncher and grapple skidder, with processing at the landing. |
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| Graham Onions, meanwhile, must fancy his chances as the kind of pitch-it-up skidder that has troubled Australia in the past. |
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| That one saw everyone crowding into the far corner of the area and the ball not getting within 15 yards of them as it pootled out into a skidder. |
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| The court found that, at this location, crossing the stream with a skidder 12 times did not cause enough damage to found a conviction. |
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| Description: A grapple skidder is hauling timber to the clearing where it will be sawed into 4-foot logs in the Green River forest. |
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| The trees were dragged across the creek with a skidder, a machine weighing about 22,000 lbs. on large tires, which completed a dozen crossings. |
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| It is usually mounted on a 4 wheel drive power wagon, skidder or caterpillar-type tractor. |
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| In the operations FERIC observed, this handling of the slash had little or no effect on skidder and delimber productivity. |
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| Description: A skidder is removing tree trunks to clear a road. |
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| In many cases the issue of local employment involves the small-scale woods worker with a chainsaw and skidder, who has felt displaced from Crown lands. |
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| Tanguay Machinery is proud to revels its newest TG88E grapple skidder. |
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| This report describes the key considerations when converting a used skidder into a single-grip harvester suitable for small-scale commercial thinning. |
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| Stems were skidded with a rubbertired grapple skidder to the yarder's mobile backspar, a loader placed the stems within reach of the yarder's grapple, then the stems were grapple yarded to roadside for processing and loading. |
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| This report presents the productivity and cost of the skidding operation, identifies the factors that influence performance of the grapple skidder, and describes the soil disturbance resulting from skidding. |
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| Requires a harvester, a skidder and and a forwarder. |
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| I never thought I'd see a log skidder in Central Park. |
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| This report presents FERIC's observations of a cable yarding system that integrated a mechanized felling component and extraction with a grapple skidder. |
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| Certain types of damage, notably those that arise at the small end of the stem, can be significantly reduced because the skidder no longer creates piles of wood at roadside before delimbing. |
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| A skidder was used to pull the logs from the bottom of the river. |
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| The all-weather cab of the 560C Skidder has high-visibility Lexan windshields and windows for greater operator comfort. |
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