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What is a yarder?

What is a yarder? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (forestry) A motor-driven logging machine which transports logs by means of a system of cables and winches.
  2. (in combination) Something that is a stated number of yards in some dimension - such as a ten-yarder.
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With the addition of one, two or three winches, any excavator will perform double duty as a small yarder.
One of our best skills is downhill cable extraction using a tower yarder placed downslope.
Planning the logging and preparing transport by cable yarder or forwarder.
Sanders does not use intermediate supports as his yarder works on an endless running line that is fed around two capstan wheels.
And, just to rub salt into the wounds, Vsevolods Lidaks popped up in the 57th minute to crack home a 30 yarder beyond the out-stretched arms of Mathieson.
Sean Schneider of Matthews Environmental Services cleans a yarder in preparation for Thursday's opening of the Oregon Logging Conference.

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