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CLYDE FOUR-LIXE SELF-PROPELLING SKIDPER 



THE SKIDDER IX OPERATION AT OXXOXAGOX, SilCU. 



Clyde Logging Equipment 



Shown on this .page are four views of logging 

 equipment manufactured by the Clyde Iron Worlss 

 of Dulutb. Minn. This concern puts out ma- 

 chines of the highest order which are generally 

 prized among the trade for the efficient and 

 speedy worii possible with their use. 



The first cut represents the company's famous 

 steel four-line self-propelling skidder. with flexi- 

 ble steel booms for skidding and decking logs at 

 the track. This is a very popular machine in 

 hardwood sections as well as in the pine timber 

 of the South, and is particularly successful on 

 account of the speed with which it may be 

 moved from one point to another and set up 

 ready for operation. This is an essential point 

 where the timber is small and scattered. This 

 machine is extensively used in the hardwood 

 of the Xorth and also throughout the timber sec- 

 tions of the South. The guy lines from the 

 peaks of the booms are tightened by means of 

 friction drums driven by the engines. 



The second view represents the above described 

 machine in operation at Ontonagon, Mich., for 

 the Greenwood Lumber Company. In this opera- 

 tion the skidding lines are taken out with horses. 

 The machine is also arranged to use rehaul and 

 do away with horses where desired. 



The third picture on this page shows the same 

 operation at Ontonagon after the skidder has 

 gone through, leaving the logs for the loader to 

 put on to cars. This company uses a McGifTert 

 loader, furnished by the Clyde people. 



The last halftone is a combination two-line 

 skidder and loader with steel swinging boom, and 

 is built on the Decker type of frame, which pro- 

 vides for spotting the cars through the machine 



over the trucks. It is equipped with three en- 

 gines ; two of them are for the skidding lines 

 (each engine having two drums, one for an out- 

 haul line and the other for the spotting line), 

 which are taken back to the logs by power in- 

 stead of horses. The third engine is for loading, 

 equipped with two drums, one for a loading line 

 and the other for a spotting line for spotting the 

 cars through the machine. The swinging boom 

 is operated by steam cylinder, direct connected 

 and under the control of the loading engineer. 

 This machine is self-propelling and the guy lines 

 are tightened by means of steam driven arms so 

 that moving from one point to another and set- 

 ting ready for work is a matter of but a few mo- 

 ments. The water tanks are located underneath 

 the lower deck between the trucks and are made 

 of steel and of large capacity. The skidding lines 

 lead from the rigid A frame or boom back to the 

 loading boom. 



Preparation for Wholesalers' Annual 



Present indications point to a large attend- 

 ance at the forthcoming annual of the Xational 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association to be 

 held at the Hotel Sinton, Cincinnati, on March 

 1, 2 and 3. This is the first time that this 

 organization has come West for its annual con- 

 vention since it met in Chicago seven or eight 

 years ago. This innovation is meeting with gen- 

 eral favor and there seems to be a determina- 

 tion among a large number of lumbermen to 

 make this such a successful meeting that the 

 organization will in future frequently return 

 to this section of the country for its annuals. 



The lumber contingent of Cincinnati, favorably 

 known and justly as royal hosts, are planning 



to entertain the convention visitors in a lavish 

 way. Besides this, there will he a delightful 

 formal banquet given by the association on the 

 tirst evening of the convention. The business to he 

 considered by the association at this time is 

 also of an important and interesting nature, 

 so that visitors to the convention will lie doubly 

 repaid for the journey and time and money ex- 

 pended. 



W. A. Bennett and T. J. Moffett, the local 

 members of the committee on arrangements for 

 the convention, have been actively at work se- 

 curing eminent speakers to address the lumber- 

 men at the banquet on Wednesday evening, 

 March 2. Lieutenant Governor Trcadway of 

 Ohio; S. A. ("Deepwater") Thompson, field 

 secretary of the Rivers and Harbors Congress ; 

 Thomas C. Powell, vice-president of the Cincin- 

 nati, Xew Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad ; 

 Hon. David B. Foulke, M. C, Richmond, Ind., 

 and Rev. Charles F. Goss of Cincinnati will he 

 in attendance. Esberger's orchestra will fur- 

 nish the music. The price of admission to the 

 banquet has been set at $8 per plate, and an 

 invitation has been extended to all members of 

 the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati to attend. 



.loseph Bolser, chairman of the committee on 

 entertainment of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's 

 Club, has arranged a smoker for the evening o£ 

 March 3. to which the Lumbermen's Club ex- 

 tend an invitation to all who attend the conven- 

 tion to be present as their guests. An elegant 

 buffet lunch will be set; with perfectos and 

 liquids. A musical entertainment, instrumental 

 and vocal, has been arranged, consisting of num- 

 bers hy the Haydn Quintet, a ragtime feast of 

 and a monologue by Horace Williamson. 



LOGS LEFT \i\ .SKlDL)];i: 1 UR LOADING ON CARS 



CLYDE COMBINATION TWO-LINE SKIDDER AND LOADER 



