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In forestry, a skid cone is a hollow steel or plastic cone placed over the sawn end of a log. When skidding (dragging) logs end-wise, it presents a pointed end that deflects itself past obstacles.
Skid cones are most popularly used when skidding single logs behind ATVs or light tractors, particularly when a single operator is too occupied with driving to keep a continuous watch behind. Heavy tractors and large logs smash through obstacles. Horse loggers work from behind the horse and have a better view of the moving log. Skid cones are also useful when winching by rope, where it is more difficult to steer a log.
Skid cones prevent logs from being stopped by roots, stumps or residual trees while being harvested. It also protects standing valuable trees along the path from being damaged. Operator safety is enhanced, as the cone prevents sudden stops caused by logs getting caught in an obstacle.
In forestry, a skidcone is a hollow steel or plastic cone placed over the sawn end of a log. When skidding (dragging) logs end-wise, it presents a pointed...
which runs between two variable-diameter pulleys. The pulleys consist of two cone-shaped halves that move together and apart. The V-belt runs between these...
used in unfrozen soil conditions Skidcone – a steel or plastic cone placed on the end of a log while being skidded, in order to ease its transportation...
indicates whether the aircraft is in coordinated flight, showing the slip or skid of the turn. The slip indicator is actually an inclinometer that at rest...
a teetering hinge and two coning hinges. The tail rotor has only a teetering hinge. The normal production variant has skid landing gear. The Mariner version...
fine grooves into a tire to improve traction and thermal characteristics. skid plate A metal plate, most commonly titanium, fixed to the bottom of flat-bottomed...
most common, with skis or floats needed to operate from snow/ice/water and skids for vertical operation on land. Faster aircraft have retractable undercarriages...
Yankees". Syracuse Herald Journal. Donnelly, Joe (August 22, 1991). "Sid Breaks Skid Strong effort in nightcap ends it at 11". Newsday. Day, Frederick J. (2005)...
of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail. The term taildragger is also used. The term "conventional"...
simple device for indicating a slip or skid in an aircraft in flight. It performs the same function as the slip-skid indicator ball, but is more sensitive...
spacecraft consisted of a crew module designed by extending the Gemini B exterior cone to a 419-cm-diameter heat shield and a cargo propulsion module. Recovery...
The aircraft struck a mountain ridge, shearing off both wings and the tail cone. The remaining portion of the fuselage slid down a glacier at an estimated...
inlet shock cone at the front of the aircraft becoming the hottest part. The shock cone was fibreglass, necessary because the shock cone also served as...
longerons and a glass fibre nose cone. There is a non-retractable and unsprung monowheel, with optional brake, and a nose skid mounted on rubber blocks in...
Challenges: Round 1: Face Pizza, Head On Crash, Special Egg Round 2: Bad Door, Skid Marks, Bad Knight Round 3: Groin Balls, Wait Wheel, Erupt In Rear Round 4:...
slums, were the origin of the more widespread meaning of "skid road" and its derivative skid row, referring to a poor area. Hull's Trace North Huron River...
the 500MD Defender. Equipped with a Bendix RDR-1300 search radar in a nose cone offset to the port side, and a towed ASQ-81C(V)2 magnetic anomaly detector...
traffic. The test is repeated at an increased speeds until the car skids, knocks down cones, or spins around. On 21 October 1997 the journalist Robert Collin...
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