Technodiversity Glossary

The cable skidder is a machine used for the extraction of trees. Driving on rubber tires or caterpillars it is specialized to off-road conditions.

The cable skidder extracts full trees and tree length from the trail (buffer 21 & 22) to the forest road (buffer 31 & 32).

Instead of a cable, trees can be dragged by a grapple skidder, clam-bunk skidder, or loaded with a loading crane to a forwarding trailer, forwarder. Another possibility for extraction on un-accessible terrain is the cable yarder or the helicopter.

It contains a single or double winch with reeling functions. With the cable given by the winch the load can be compiled and hold.

The extraction of the load takes places in a dragging movement. Since the cable skidder is a self-propelled machine, the work with the cable skidder is declared as simple mechanized work.