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    swing yarder is a mobile piece of heavy duty forestry equipment used for pulling logs from the woods to a logging road with cables. The swing yarder is...
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    primarily on the North American west coast, uses a yarder, loaders and grapple yarders. Cable logging Swing yarder Steam donkey – a similar, smaller logging machine...
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    loads), often a horizontal platform such as a conventional crane, a swing yarder, or the wind-facing platform of a horizontal-axis (yaw) windmill. In...
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    sky'. The yarder itself is located on a landing, a flat area on top of the ridge that is being logged. After the trees are retrieved by the yarder, the limbs...
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    to move the tongs. A third cable goes back to the tail hold then to the yarder. This third cable is used to pull the grapple out into the setting and to...
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    A swing bridge (or swing span bridge) is a movable bridge that can be rotated horizontally around a vertical axis. It has as its primary structural support...
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    muscles. Austin demonstrated the power of the swing by securing the world long drive title with a 515-yard shot, using a steel-shafted persimmon wood driver...
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    The golf swing is the action by which players hit the ball in the sport of golf. The golf swing is a complex motion involving the whole body; the technicalities...
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    org/web/20230203101926/https://www.woodbusiness.ca/madill-back-to-manufacturing-swing-yarders-2579/ Chamberlain, Peter; Ellis, Chris (1981), British And American...
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    bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His...
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