High Wheeled Log Cart Skidder

0055 american lumberman tex107 1903

A high-wheeled, slip-tongue log skidder with its teams and driver in 1903. The driver would straddle the cart over felled logs, where dangling tongs would be positioned to raise the end of a log off the ground when the mules pulled the tongue forward, allowing the log to "skid" along under the cart's rolling wheels.

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