HARDWOOD RECORD 



Hardwood Lo^^in^l 



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Important 

 Fe'itures 

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Portable Spar Cablcway Skidder, Skidding and Loadinj; Hardwood Logs. 



HARDWOOD logging ground conditions can be broadly classified 

 into three groups. First: fiat or rolling country such as is 

 found in Michigan, "Wisconsin, New York and the Appalachian 

 foot-hills. Second; the rough hills and mountains of New England 

 and of the South, and, third, the flat lands such as the southern 

 river bottoms where water and mud and underbrush form the 

 prime difficulties. 



BUT imfortunately for the logger, conditions often vary greatly 

 on large timber tracts. In the steam logging of hardwood it 

 has been frequently found that one type of machine was not 

 suitable for all of the ground or to the character of the timber 

 to be cut from it. Thus, in using a ground skidder in the Carolina 

 mountains certain rough bottom would be encountered such as only 



a cableway sludder would work in, or again in Michigan, certam 

 areas would occur where the trees were large and scattering, say 

 3,000 feet to the acre, where the cableway skidder generally used 

 would not operate as cheaply as a ground skidder. 



O MEET all tJie conditions the hardwood operator is liable to 

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I encounter, eitlier through variations of ground or timber, the 

 -■- Didgerwood Manufacturing Company have produced portable 

 and semi-portable spar skidders and loaders which can be used 

 interchangeably for all three svstems of skidding, the CABLEWAY, 

 GROUND SKIDDING and the RE-HAUL system, and are there- 

 fore able to most economically log all varieties of ground or tim- 

 ber encountered: to log swamps, flats or mountains, to handle 

 small or large trees; thick or scattering timber. 





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