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Articulated log skidder having a telescopic boom for throwing out the inhaul cable

  • US 3,268,090 A
  • Filed: 08/23/1965
  • Issued: 08/23/1966
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/23/1965
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A MOBILE LOGGING VEHICLE COMPRISING A POWERED, STEERABLE FORWARD SECTION AND A TRAILING ARCH SECTION;

  • SAID SECTIONS BEING JOINED BY AN ARTICULATED SHAFT CONNECTION, A TELESCOPICALLY EXTENDABLE BOOM SUPPORTED AT ITS OPPOSITE ENDS, RESPECTIVELY, ON THE JOINED SECTIONS OF SAID VEHICLE AND HAVING A REARWARDLY EXTENDABLE PISTON ROD AND MEANS FOR ITS EXTENSION AND RETRACTION, A CABLE WINDING DRUM MOUNTED ON SAID VEHICLE, A FAIRLEADER MOUNTED BY SAID TRAILING ARCH SECTION BELOW THE REAR END OF THE BOOM, AN INHAUL CABLE WOUND ON SAID DRUM AND EXTENDED REARWARDLY THEREFROM OVER SAID FAIRLEADER, LOG PICK-UP MEANS ATTACHED TO THE END OF THE CABLE A CONNECTOR MEANS ATTACHED AT ONE END OF THE FREE END OF SAID CABLE AND AT ITS OTHER END TO THE EXTENDABLE END OF SAID PISTON ROD WHEREBY SAID CABLE MAY BE DRAWN OUT FROM SAID DRUM BY THE EXTENDING OF THE PISTON ROD FROM THE BOOM AND THE PICK-UP MEANS CAST THEREBY REARWARDLY FROM THE VEHICLE FOR LOG-MAKING LOG CONNECTIONS.

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