For those of you lucky enough to have cable and be able to watch this program (I don't have and can't) that are unfamilar with logging, I have some diagrams of the various different high lead logging systems. They should help understand some of the terminolgy used as well as how the systems work. From what I am hearing in this thread it seems that this is a well put together program, its about time someone portrayed loggers as good hard working people:usa, rather than the rapist of the forests.
I can't figuare out how to insert text between the pictures so I'll do it this way
The first 3 are the high lead system, the live skyline or shotgun system and the running skyline (there is a photo of our Washington 78 using this system combined with a mechanical slack pulling carriage in the mechanical logging thread), these 3 are probably the most typically used today.
The live skyline shows it with a shotgun (non-motorized gravity) carriage, typically today that would be a motorized carriage with 200 + feet of up to 7/8ths" drop line in it. That is the one that will clamp to the skyline to allow the logs to be pulled up to it and then hauled to the landing using the main line.
The photo of the Washington 208 with a 110' tower typically will use the high lead or skyline configuartion (with either a shotgun or motorized carriage) it is a 5 drum machine capable of reaching out 2500'