Forestry Quarterly (V. 6)

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390

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In the South the severest problem was that of the extensive swamps, impassable throughout most of the year, and holding immense stores of valuable pine, cypress, cedar and hardwood; again there were higher portions of the southern mountains where the conditions were too rough for animal hauling and the streams were not driveable. The experienced operator finding tried methods of the past unsuitable to the several new conditions, was ready to actively welcome new solutions of the difficulties, and upon the introduction of the steam logging engine lent energy and inventive aid to its improvement. Early Devhxopment. The origin of the steam skidder, which in its various forms is the main topic here to be treated, may be found in the granting to Mr. Horace Butters, of Ludington, Michigan, of letters patent for the first steam skidder. This original type of machine was devised to get logs out of low, wet places, and the curious surface formations found in many of the glaciated regions of the Lake States, known as pot holes. Mr. Butters wisely foresaw the wide field possible to cover with his invention. Soon he replaced the Manila rope originally used by wire rope, and numerous important changes were made in the construction of the machine. In a circular in 1886 the possibilities of the steam skidding methods were first presented to the public. Like many other operators of the Lake States Mr. Butters foresaw the approaching depletion of that region of timber, and on investigation of the magnificent undeveloped resources of the South acquired holdings in the Green Swamp of North Carolina, where he foresaw the ideal conditions for the application of his invention. Cypress, cedar, gum and other swamp trees were becoming valuable; but their exploitation had been difficult a...

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