Understood, but if the machinery was paid for, surely someone somewhere would have been willing to pack it out? And if it wasn't, I can understand a lien-holder not wanting to pay to haul it out, but they didn't want to take what they could get from scrappers either?
That Skidder finished that setting in the fall of 1964 or 65 . Changes were happening in the forest industry in the mid to late 1950's wooden spar trees and heal boom log loaders using tongs were being replaced with mobile log loaders using grapples . wooden spar trees were being replaced by steel towers . The last wooden spar tree was used in the spring of 1966 . When that skidder finished that setting , it was the end of an era . There were a couple of bridges that may not have been capable of hauling that much weight over them . For what ever reason the skidder was left where it sits . The home tree was left standing with Bull Blocks and such stripped from it . The yarder its self had the engines and lines and anything that could be recycled stripped off it . So there it sits rotting and rusting away .
