Forestry Memories Image Library = Extracting timber by cable crane

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	Norman Davidson
	1975

Extracting timber by cable crane

Photographs courtesy of Abbie Gordon, Banchory.

Extracting by skyline cableway at unknown location. From what little can be seen of the machine this could be an Igland Winch but perhaps someone will confirm?

Note the long choker chain hanging down from the skyline carriage which could be used to wrap around and pick up logs when they were spaced out on the ground. The long length allowed the choker man to haul down the wire rope and hook from the empty carriage when it stopped on the skyline part way up the extraction rackway to pick up a new load of timber.
Abbie remembers cable cranes based at Mearns and Dunkeld in the old East Scotland Conservancy during the 1970s.

Picture Added on 01 February 2011.

Comments

This is a Chapelhall built Ford 3000 or perhaps 4000 Cable Crane which was fitted with a modified Igland winch. The later Cable Cranes produced at Chapelhall were based on the locally built Leyland 255 tractors and the cost fully kitted including the tractor in 1975 was £6754.
Added by David McQuillan on 07 February 2011.

Cracking picture. My dad bought a Ford 3000 CHAPELHALL Skyline from one of the DERBY FC disposal sales in 1980 after being forced to do so by being told that he was going to be made redundant by the FC. We had 10 yrs excellent service along with the LEYLAND 255 SKYLINE and eventually sold them from BRECHFA Forest back to SCOTLAND with not a penny loss.
Added by John JENKINS on 24 September 2011.

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