The grapple skidder is a rubber-tired or tracked machine used for the extraction of trees. Other machines that can be used for this sub-process are the cable skidder, clam-bunk skidder, farm tractor equipped with a forwarding trailer, forwarder, and cable yarder.
The grapple skidder is mainly used to extract full trees from the trail (buffer 21) to the forest road (buffer 31).
In contrast to the clam-bunk skidder, the grapple skidder assembles and holds its load with a hydraulic grapple, that opens downwards.
Like all skidders, the work with the grapple skidder is declared as advanced mechanized work.
(See PR1-B03 and B07)
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