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See 1942 quote.
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1925
Preparing the "spar-tree" for "high-lead," or "sky-line" rigging, is the most spectacular and thrilling performance in the logging industry.
1942
SKY LINE. In the case of a skidder, a heavy cable stretched from the spar tree out to a "back tree" at the far edge of the setting. A wheeled "bicycle" or carriage runs along this, bringing the logs from the woods when drawn by the skidding line, carrying the chokers back out to the waiting chokermen when drawn by the "receding line," which corresponds to the "haulback" of the yarder. In the case of a yarder the sky line is the same as the main-line, going from the spar tree through a block attached to a tree stump at the back of the setting, and is itself coupled directly to the haulback line.
1956
Matt [Hemmingsen] was also the man who rigged up the first skyline system ever used in the woods. This was in 1914 at Wardroper Bay on Cowichan Lake. . . .
1963
There's where the donkeys puff and strain
As they pull the logs on the road
And the skyline moans, as if in pain
As it bears its heavy load.
As they pull the logs on the road
And the skyline moans, as if in pain
As it bears its heavy load.
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