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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a powerful vehicle used for drawing or hauling logs from a cutting area.
See: skidder(def. 3c)
Quotations
1964
Horses are now being replaced by mechanical skitters, four-wheeled machines powered by diesel or gasoline with a winch and cable on the back. The skitters drag the trees to the yards where the timber is sawn into log or pulpwood lengths.