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of the cable is caught in the edge of the landing, or on the car 

 bunk. By winding in the cable on the drum the log is rolled 

 up the landing and onto the car. 



A modification of this device has been brought out for more 

 rapid work and for handling long logs. It consists of a loading 

 engine similar in type to the yarding engines and two gin-poles 

 and loading lines instead of one. The cables are attached to 

 the logs by means of tongs or slings. Each line may be oper- 

 ated independently or the two may be operated in unison.^ 



Loading with Jacks or Peavies. — This method is used where 

 logs are loaded by hand and only bunk loads are placed on the 

 cars, peavies being employed for loading small logs and jacks 

 for large ones. 



Landings with a slight pitch toward the track are used when 

 loading by this method. The cars are spotted opposite the load- 

 ing point and the logs are put into position to roll onto the car 

 by moving one end or the other of the log with jacks. When 

 the log is in position the blocks holding it are released and the 

 log allowed to roll by gravity toward the car. If it is a small 

 log it may be allowed to roll directly onto the car, but if it is a 

 large one it is stopped on the edge of the landing by chock blocks 

 and then gradually rolled onto the car bunks. Logs are pre- 

 vented from rolling off the far side of the car by chock blocks 

 fastened to the car bunk. When necessary the distance between 

 the car bunk and the edge of the landing may be spanned by a 

 skid 3 or 4 feet long and 6 or 8 inches in diameter. Four men 

 with jacks can load about 100,000 feet daily. 



Loading Logs from Water Storage. — Landings may be replaced 

 by artificial ponds in which the logs are dumped when brought 

 in by the road engine. 



A scheme sometimes employed is to run a car into the pond 

 until it is submerged, when a bunk load is floated in position over 

 the car, which is then pulled out loaded. 



Another method consists in the use of a modified crosshaul. 

 A lead log is placed at the height of the car bunk on the loading 

 side of the railroad track, and from it skids slope down to the 



1 The Timberman, December, 19 10, p. t^^. 



