Don't mean to answer for Pac,
But I think your talking about the shovel, or an excavator with a log loading attachment. Very common practice out here, known as shovel logging.
Basically the cutter falls em and the shovel stacks em up usually next to the road or they will daisy chain there stack, stack move restack move ad nauseum, sometimes up to 100's of feet...
The bonus is you can call a straight truck to come pick up the load cause you can then use the shovel to load the truck.
The trucks come in with the trailer on the back of the truck (piggy back) so they can back in a really long ass ways without to much difficulty, not to mention since they don't have to counter steer for the trailer they can come in a whole lot faster. Unlike out east with your guy fixed trailers (we call em hay wagons) where they have to have a giant turn around on the landing or a nice long straight road they can back down or a loop road. In the mountains you don't have the option of any of that so its back in down a windy switchbacked road (sometimes 20 or more miles) or drive straight in and turn around on spur road and back the last bit in.
Anyway I digres
But I think your talking about the shovel, or an excavator with a log loading attachment. Very common practice out here, known as shovel logging.
Basically the cutter falls em and the shovel stacks em up usually next to the road or they will daisy chain there stack, stack move restack move ad nauseum, sometimes up to 100's of feet...
The bonus is you can call a straight truck to come pick up the load cause you can then use the shovel to load the truck.
The trucks come in with the trailer on the back of the truck (piggy back) so they can back in a really long ass ways without to much difficulty, not to mention since they don't have to counter steer for the trailer they can come in a whole lot faster. Unlike out east with your guy fixed trailers (we call em hay wagons) where they have to have a giant turn around on the landing or a nice long straight road they can back down or a loop road. In the mountains you don't have the option of any of that so its back in down a windy switchbacked road (sometimes 20 or more miles) or drive straight in and turn around on spur road and back the last bit in.
Anyway I digres