Intermediate Support for Use with Wire Skidding Equipment for Multiple Span Wire Skidding

Abstract

Single span Wire Skidding has been quite successful in the transportation of pulpwood in the hilly areas. In Indian conditions, the direction, slope and gradients of the hills are changed abruptly, single line wire skidding can not work and hence multiple span wire skidding has to be resorted. For successful completion of multiple span skidding an intermediate support was designed and fabricated by the logging branch which as put to trial use in the Eastern Ghat forests of Andhra Pradesh. More than 83.90% of the load passed successfully over this support.