| Show SKY LINE LOGGING LATEST modern methods of western camps said to be cheaper and more efficient than the old ways in the logging camps of oregon and washington a skyline method of logging Is proving much cheaper and more efficient thin the former method ot dragging out logs from the forest by a donkey engine and cables operating on the ground says popular mechanics magazine the sky line plan Is to run a cable through blocks or pulleys suspended lus at a great height on giant trees so as to form a sort of trolley line by which the logs are hoisted into the air and then hauled over the tops of ordinary trees and other obstructions to the where they are loaded aboard freight cars for shipment the donkey engine which operates the skyline has five drums including two for main lines and two for trip lines the top cable from which the log Is suspended 1 one of alie main lines while the other Is used to liall the log in the top cable 1 lowered with its block or trolley directly over the log to be picked up it Is then pulled taut the log with it by means of a choker or steel tongs in the clr a log can of course be moved much faster than on the ground |
