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Usually the skyline was attached to a dozer,the tail rope block too. we would if we could too,shift the skyline with haywire,in New Zealand we called it "Straw line". did alot of " bridling" that was having the tail rope block set at an angle to the skyline,the rigging was pulled almost...

We used to North or South bend most of the time,so you got really good at spotting the rigging ( mostly) to right onto of the logs. Mechanical slack pulling cartridges were unheard of back then. All the rage now though.

The most miserable memories of cable logging were the occasional manual skyline shifts. You could usually drag the skyline over using the tail rope but sometimes you couldn't. So then it was three guys moving a 100 meter skyline extension laterally over a hillside a few feet at a time ,working...

I haven't touched a choker for over 20 years.Man did I used to get some mean sprags from those horrible things. Bull chokers were 1¼" swaged cable,horrible to have to dig/ jam/ ram them under logs . Especially if they didn't have bullet ferrels on the end