Carriage-mounted skidding line take-up apparatus

Claim 1

In a logging system having a skyline, a carriage mounted for reversible travel along the skyline, a skidding line, and a hoisting line extending along the carriage with one end attached to an end of the skidding line and another end constructed for receiving a load, skidding-line-pick-up apparatus comprising a tagline attached at one end to the skidding line adjacent the point where the skidding line attaches to the hoisting line, tagline take-up means mounted on the carriage operatively connected to said tagline for taking up and paying out the same from its other end, selectively actuatable, unidirectionally operable, power-operated drive means mounted on the carriage and disengageably drivingly connected to said take-up means, operable in an engaged mode to drive said take-up means in a manner causing the latter to take up said tagline, and hence the skidding line, and in a disengaged mode to free said take-up means so as to allow the same to pay out said tagline and hence the skidding line, and power-operated pinch-roll means operatively receiving the hoisting line where the same extends along the carriage, and drivingly connected to said drive means for operation in coordination with said take-up means to pull the hoisting line into and through the carriage, wherein the driving connection between said pinch-roll means and said drive means is through said take-up means.