Log transport

craft of rafting involving the transport of wood by waterway. UNESCO intangible cultural heritage

thumb|Forestry Forwarder Ösa 250. thumb|A medium-sized forwarder piling logs. thumb|Valmet 840.2 Forwarder

thumb|right|A slip tongue log skidder used in the 19th and early 20th centuries thumb|Elements of a skidding harness A skidder is any type of heavy vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding", in which the logs are transported from the cutting site to a landing. There they are loaded onto trucks (or railroad cars or a flume), and sent to the mill. One exception is that in the early days of logging, when distances from the timberline to the mill were shorter, the landing stage was omitted altogether, and the "skidder" would have been

type of flume used to float logs down to a sawmill

moving logs (sawn tree trunks) downstream along waterways

tool for turning logs

manufacturing plant in Russia