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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a logger employed in building and piling a skidway (def. 2a).
Quotations
1910
Further on the skidders were at work. They roll the logs up a spiked incline by means of canthooks.
1961
Each gang working together in the woods--logmakers, road cutters, teamsters and skidder--took a lunch in a cotton bag.
2n. — Hist.
a logger who built or maintained the skidroad (def. 1).
See: skidroad ((n.)) (def. 1)
Quotations
1956
These were . . . the skidders who cut short hemlock logs and embedded them crosswise [to make skidroads]. . . .
3an.
a teamster or driver employed in hauling logs from a cutting area.
Quotations
1957
The work goes on the year round and men work in teams of two--a cutter, with his power saw and axe, and a skidder, who bundles the logs and skids them to the road with his horse.
3bn.
See 1942 quote. [See picture at skyline.]
Quotations
1919
[There were] two Ledgerwood [sic] skidders, one yarder, one swing, one ground swing and one roader, and not very high ball.
1942
SKIDDER. A yarding machine with a tight sky line, and for this reason able to haul from greater distances than the ordinary yarder with its endless slack sky line.
3cn.
a powerful vehicle used for drawing or hauling logs from a cutting area.
See: skitter
Quotations
1965
Then it [the "harvester"] lays the denuded trunk on the ground and another machine, called a "skidder," takes it to a landing area where it is cut into pulpwood lengths.
1966
[Advert.] The wheeled skidder has proven its reliability. . . .