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Title: Production and cost analysis of a feller-buncher and grapple skidder in central Appalachian hardwood forests.
Author: Jingxin Wang
Publication: Forest Products Journal (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2004
Publisher: Forest Products Society
Volume: 54 Issue: 12 Page: 159(9)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
EAST DIXFIELD — A skidder was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning as a logging crew worked deep in the woods off Gordon Road near Route 2 and the Wilton-Carthage line.
An employee went to hitch on to a load of wood and the mid-1990s Timberjack grapple skidder burst into flames at about 10:30 a.m., East Dixfield Fire Chief Randy Hall said.
The skidder, owned by Korhonen Logging of Livermore, was one of about five along with other machinery working on the property of John Steele. Crews from the other skidders pulled the burning skidder out from the work site to a landing to meet the firefighters who traveled three miles into the woods from the road, Hall said.
When they got there, the wood crews had put most of the fire out with extinguishers. According to photos taken on the logger's cell phone, the skidder was completely engulfed at one point, he said.
The cause of the fire was probably a mechanical problem, Hall said. The skidder is a total loss and Hall estimated about $25,000 in damage. The company was in the process of trading in the skidder.
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Using grapple skidders, a limber and, reportedly, a feller-buncher, they were clear-cutting a wide path that will be used by the cranes, once they are assembled atop the mountain, to put together the project's 21 459-foot wind turbines.
The suit says Conner bought a skidder from Reckart for $195000 in 2004. The skidder soon developed problems, according to the suit, including "a malfunctioning grapple [which eventually exploded], a 'blow-by on motor and rear main seal leak.
Giant machines called feller-bunchers with big steel arms grapple onto trees while a huge steel circular saw cuts them off at the stump, then lays down a bunch of them for newer grapple skidders to muckle onto and drag to the landing where another
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