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Skidder

A skidder is any type of heavy vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding", in which the logs are transported from the cutting site to a landing. There they are loaded onto trucks (or railroad cars or a flume), and sent to the mill. One exception is that in the early days of logging, when…

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OxenHorsesMulesGasolineLidgerwood
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TrackedFour wheel driveTractorsDiesel engineArticulated steering
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LoggingTreesFlumeCableWinch
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Skidder

Nodes34
Edges33
Triples31
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
Components1

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Skidder

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related to history · 20
Skidder → Another, Clyde Ironworks, Clyde Skidder, Duluth, Each, Early, In, In New Zealand, Lidgerwood, Minnesota, Once, One, Similar, Some, Starting, The, The Clyde, These, They, Working
related to External links · 5
Skidder → Media, Rubber Tired Log SkidderRitchieWiki, Skidders, Wikimedia Commons Development, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Modern equivalents · 4
Skidder → Contemporary, Forwarders, The, They
see also · 2
Skidder → Feller, Washington Iron Works Skidder

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skidders grapple trees cable logging logs winch hydraulic one needed used landing wheels boom log railroad steel small citation early

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Skidderrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
Skidderrelated to External linksMedia0.60section
Skidderrelated to External linksSkidders0.60section
Skidderrelated to External linksWikimedia Commons Development0.60section
Skidderrelated to External linksRubber Tired Log SkidderRitchieWiki0.60section
Skidderrelated to historyEarly0.60section
Skidderrelated to historyThe0.60section
Skidderrelated to historyThese0.60section
Skidderrelated to historyStarting0.60section
Skidderrelated to historyIn0.60section
Skidderrelated to historySimilar0.60section
Skidderrelated to historyAnother0.60section

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