They had been helping the skidders to place the parallel and level beams, or skids, on which the logs were to be piled by the side of the road.
"The Blazed Trail"
Stewart Edward White
The sawyers, the swampers, the skidders, and the team men turned and put on their heavy blanket coats.
"The Blazed Trail"
Stewart Edward White
Roughly speaking, each of the three hauling teams had its own gang of sawyers and skidders to supply it with logs and to take them from it, for of the skidding teams, one was split;-the horses were big enough so that one of them to a skidway sufficed.
"The Blazed Trail"
Stewart Edward White