what are the different types of skidders are used to depending on the conditions?
Answers
The different types of skidders skidders are used depending on the conditions:
(a)Cable Skidders
➜ These Skidders pull logs behind them. Steel ropes are bound around each log to make the pull possible .
(b) Grapple Skidders
➜ These Skidders scoop up a bunch of logs with the help of hydraulic arms that are mounted on their backs.
(c) forwarders
➜ These skidders are used in muddy conditions . these are truck- like vehicles that carry logs without dragging them .
(d)Steel Cables
➜Logs are carried aloft by steel Cables where the terrain is tough (transport is rare).These cables are stung across canyons and valleys.
Revisal things
⓵ The Skidders are the men (lumberjacks),who drag the logs from the forest to concentration points known as landings or banking grounds.
⓶These may be near the roads ,railways or river banks .
⓷Today ,animal skidding has been replaced by vehicles.
Important meanings
Lumberjacks ⇛ people who are involved in lumbering activities .
Skidders ⇛ the are the lumberjacks ,who drag the logs from the forest to concentration points known as landing or banking grounds .
Lumbering ⇛ it is the harvesting and production of trees for various uses .
Bunkhouse ⇛ it includes the dining and the sleeping rooms for lumberjacks.
important Points
• lumbering is the harvesting and production of trees for various uses .
• winter and Autumn are the best seasons for the lumbering activities .
• lumbering involves
→ felling of the trees
→ cutting the tree trunk into logs
→ splitting and hauling the logs to the Banking grounds and transporting them to the factories .
•The buildings of lumberjacks include:
→Bunkhouse
→Staff house
→Store house
→ cook and wash house
→Estate house
•Skidders are the men who drag the logs from the forest to concentration points.
• Cable skidders, grapples skidder, forwarders and steel cables are the different types of skidders.