Explanation of the logging equipment.
This is a cable yarder, with a small donkey engine in the foreground of a few pictures. These were wood fired steam engines used in logging.
The big yarder was used to get logs off the hill and down to the landing, where they were sent off to mills. They used a complicated pulley arrangement, with blocks high up in several trees, and about 4 on the ground, to carry huge logs down; the big block and tackle is approx 6-7 feet tall. The smaller donkey engine was used at the landing, I believe.
Language lesson, from singer-songwriter Utah Phillips. The roads used to haul logs out of the woods and to the landings were called skid roads. (They still are.) Logs were skidded (pulled) out by ox or horse teams, over roads covered with wood rollers. As the towns began to grow, buildings began to sprout up along the skid road. We've shortened the name, so now many cities have Skid Row.
The Rat knows about skid row, jaja.
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