🟩Skidder Trail
🟩Ekos
🟩Ekosfera
🟩Antroposfera
🟩SkidderTrail
Skidder Trail
Description:
🟩a temporary path used by logging equipment (specifically skidders) to drag or transport felled trees from where they are cut in the forest to a central collection point or landing
Also Known As:
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- CompactedSoil
- mistaken for preskreefs
- easiest way up a slope, the TreadPrints can be used like rungs of a ladder
- a skidder drags bunches of cut trees around the block
- SkidderTrails usually lead to the road or a landing
- [SkidderTrail|Convergent]
- [SkidderTrail|Divergent]
- [SkidderTrail|Overlapping]
- [SkidderTrail|Parallel]
- [SkidderTrail|Perpendicular]
- sometimes the Skidder makes deep trails that look like mounds or trenches, when they get stuck in soft soil and get bogged down, dug in, excavating, from a loss of traction
- compressed soil, hit the elevated corners of the TreadPrints
- the logs along and within a skidder trail are usually oriented parallel to the direction of travel of the Skidder
- Flag the log once, instead of each tree
- skidder trails usually avoid rock caps
- skidder trails usually contain stumps which have been "frayed" (mushrooming)
- skidder trails can create a mixture of wood chips and soil which is difficult to Klose.
- The mixture occurs when the trail goes through the part of the block where they delimb the trees and when the soil is mud.