1
: one that skids or uses a skid
2
: a tractor used especially for hauling logs
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To get here, each man has driven 200 miles of paved roads and jolted through a 15-mile maze of unmarked logging roads and skidder trails.
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Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 25 Dec. 2020
Commercial timber harvest had yet to open up the woods with logging roads and skidder trails.
—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 7 Oct. 2020
Two of his logging skidders — the heavy-duty machines that haul cut timber — needed to be replaced.
—New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
But areas run over by skidders or trampled by elk flourished.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 Sep. 2019
Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 25 Dec. 2020
Commercial timber harvest had yet to open up the woods with logging roads and skidder trails.
—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 7 Oct. 2020
Two of his logging skidders — the heavy-duty machines that haul cut timber — needed to be replaced.
—New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
But areas run over by skidders or trampled by elk flourished.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 Sep. 2019
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