Technodiversity Glossary

The clam-bunk 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, grapple skidder, skidder with a loading crane, farm tractor equipped with a forwarding trailer, forwarder, and cable yarder.

The cable skidder extracts full trees and tree length from the trail (buffer 21 & 22) to the forest road (buffer 31 & 32). Therefore, the clam-bunk skidder is equipped with an integrated loader that lifts one end of the tree lengths into an inverted clam. The clam holds the load during the extraction process, resulting into a dragging movement of the load.

Like all skidders, the work with the grapple skidder is declared as advanced mechanized work.

(See PR1-B03 and B07)