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should be chosen with reference to good skidway sites as well as 
desirable grades. Provision should be made for a down-hill 
haul from the stump to the storage point. Skidding cannot 
be carried on profitably for long distances on level ground, 
consequently a flat country requires the greatest number of 
skidways. Large skidways are preferable because there is less 
snow to be shoveled off at loading time, and the construction 
and maintenance of a minimum mileage of road is required. 
Landings. — Temporary storage grounds called landings may 
be made along the banks of driveable streams or on the edges 
Fig. 26. — a Roimh 
iiiiiMf Skidway at the End of a Trailing Log 
Slide. New York. 
of lakes, when the logs are to be floated to the mill or to market. 
The logs may be brought to the landing on sleds, or by slides, 
flumes, or railways. The type of landing will depend upon the 
character of the stream and the number of logs to be handled. 
When the stream is small and the storage area limited, sled- 
and rail-hauled logs may be decked from 15 to 30 feet high in the 
stream bed parallel to the banks. If the banks are high the logs 
may be brought to the edge and rolled down into the stream bed 
in a more or less rough-and-tumble manner. The landings at 
the ends of slides and flumes are always of this character, since 
it is impracticable to deck logs brought down by such forms of 
transportation. 
Logs placed on frozen streams or lakes usually are stjattered 
over a wide area in order to save the labor of decking and to 
prevent the weight of the logs from breaking through the ice. 
