This invention relates to a logging skidder vehicle (1) used in logging operations to pull felled trees from forests to collection points. The skidder has logging apparatus (8, 12) on the front and rear of the vehicle as is conventional but it also has a log handling apparatus (15) at the end of a rotatable boom (17) which is mounted to the skidder and a pair of log receiving panniers (21) in the form of "U" shaped brackets which are fitted to the sides if the skidder. The boom-mounted log handling apparatus is a grab and/or a saw.