Axmen question for loggers...wouldn't it be easier and more eficient to drag logs DOWN the mountain?

It would depend on where your yard is.

If you were dumpimg the directly into the ocean (or river) then you would just rape the mountain from the water to the peak.

If you are loading to a truck yard you need to yard to the road, and most roads run ridges. A quick look at a map of a mountain area will make the reason for that very obvious. Better to run around the ridges than to try climbing up and down and fording rivers.

dragging the logs down hill is plenty greater risky. The logs are related to the cables via what's observed as a "chocker" The mechanism works extremely like a slip knot. while the line comes tight it holds the log securely, yet while knocking down hill it could relax through fact gravity will make the log flow too rapid. as quickly as that occurs you no longer have administration of the log and it could even turn sideways because it comes down hill. men and kit on the backside can no longer get out of ways. Down hill logging has killed greater men than the different variety of logging. whether that's merely used while there is no place to land the logs on the main appropriate,inclusive of a hog returned ridge tha is all rock and intensely narrow. As for hooking them up until eventually now hand that places you under the logs going up the hill. those sometimes get loose too. additionally you would be below the cables which whip up and down while the hall returned cable is the two tightened or allowed to run unfastened in severe lead logging. If a cable breaks (which occurs to each employer sometime) you pick for to be a secure distance from it. One secure practices rule in logging is often watch shifting logs and cables on no account turn our returned on them. placing chokers demands which you seem the place you're going and not on the cables.

Have you ever considered that maybe downhill isn't where they need to go? They are going to drag the log to whereever the trucks are and you sure aren't going to find a road in a ravine at the bottom of a hill.

I think if the logs are dragged they would become flat on one side of it destroying some of the value of the wood. looking at a tree and where the limbs grow,than if they are cut off and left behind you may have stubs limbs that would get stuck when the cut tree is dragged.

well first of all why would you drag a tree down the hil ruining its value?

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