Ryer Becker on Instagram: "Motorized grapple carriages are increasingly used in cable logging systems as an alternative to slackpulling carriages which require the setting of chokers on logs to enable yarding. - Having a motorized grapple helps promote safer operations as setting chokers, or hooking, is one of the most hazardous jobs in logging in the western United States. Once felled, trees are pre-bunched by machine along the skidding corridor or fed directly to the carriage by a shovel. - Wh

Ryer Becker on Instagram: "Cable logging is used to extract felled timber on steep, challenging terrain where other methods of moving material to the landing are not feasible. - In this system, a specialized piece of equipment, called a yarder, typically sits at the top of the harvest unit. This machine contains the drums of wire rope that are rigged to provide a system of elevated cables along which a carriage travels and allows trees to be pulled upslope out of harvest area. - There are many d