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⓷Today ,animal skidding has been replaced by vehicles.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.