Hitch vs Drag- Skid trail vs Twitch rd....Location Location Location

[thenorthman]

Skid road or skidder trail, sometimes called a cat trail.

Cat anything with tracks a blade and maybe a winch sometimes a grapple.

Log road or logging road, dirt roads leading to a logging site.

Unit, logging site (short for unit of a section of a township or some such)

Landing well you get that...

These are just the common things to all logging, you start involving yarders and you get fun names like side rod, Hook tender, rigging slinger, donkey puncher, high line, sky line, haul back, guys, shotgun carriage, north bend, bull bucker, sky car, switch backs... it goes on and on, almost an entirely new language speckled generously with new swear words daily.

[timberlinetree]

Lady on the conservation committee though that the LANDING was going to be used by helicopters :-.new a girl that would call a skidder a moose!

[240b]

Know an old guy who cuts his wood "sled length" to skid it.  The trucker said he was going to have to "put the coal to er to get up the hill, and the road was rougher an a cob"

[riverlogger]

 Hey 240B. The trucker said he was going to have to "put the coal to er to get up the hill, and the road was rougher an a cob"........Now them er are some "Southern Words". A man might just as well have been in our fat chewing conversation around the shop yesterday after work and heard that exact sentence spoken.lol

[Bobus2003]

Skid road or skidder trail, sometimes called a cat trail.

Cat anything with tracks a blade and maybe a winch sometimes a grapple.

Log road or logging road, dirt roads leading to a logging site.

Unit, logging site

Landing well you get that...

Pretty much the same here, Cats are also refered to as Dozers. its also called a Drag or turn

[Ken]

Twitching or skid trail here.  Landing or bed for the piling area.  Porter loads are just that. 

[coxy]

Down here in the south we refer to what you call a landing as the pit. I have no idea how or where that term comes from unless it refers to the fact that years ago the woods here where full of dug out pits where the loggers of the old days would back their trucks in to a hole they dug to make it easier to load. I have just always assumed this could be the reason we call them pits.

some of the old timers here called them rollways    maybe cause every thing was done by hand

[Rick Alger]

Hey 240b, The old guy cuts sled length so he probably doesn't pull rooster tails.