Clyde skidder. Family cow shared life in Smokies Logging Camp, Tennessee Travels by Vic Weals The Knoxville Journal, October 18, 1976. circa before 1920Great Smoky Mountains National ParkClyde skidder. Family cow shared life in Smokies Logging Camp, Tennessee Travels by Vic Weals The Knoxville Journal, October 18, 1976. This was a Clyde log-skidding machine of the kind Curtis McCarter worked on, from 1916 when he was 16 years old, until about 1923 when he was a husband and a father. from Maryville Times.Clyde Overhead Skidder; Little River Lumber Co. III-L-4173, History - Logging, Lumbering, Hewing, Sawmilling