Trailboss
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Hello Gentleman
I just joined your forum, my interest lies in old steam logging history. Im a Steam Donkey enthusiast I like to search out old abandoned donkey engines in the wood and document and photograph them. I did a search and have seen there has been some interesting threads started on the subject. Is there any of you familiar with the California back country and might know of any abandoned donkey engines still out in the woods. Most of the original donkeys which were readily accessible had been pulled back in and scraped in the 40s for the WW2. scrape iron drives .Most all others have been stripped down by the steel scrapers.
But amazingly there still are many donkeys engines still sitting on their sleds right were they were abandoned still rigged up hiding in remote areas of the woods all over the Pacific North West, Alaska and BC. Im also always looking for locations of donkey engines that had been extracted out of the woods and that are now on display at public parks and museums
These photos are of a almost fully intact 1916 Willamette Humboldt Yarder abandoned in the Stanislaus NF woods by West Side Lumber Co of Tuolumne, Ca. It was pulled out of the woods in 66 and is currently on display at the old WSLCO Mill ill
I just joined your forum, my interest lies in old steam logging history. Im a Steam Donkey enthusiast I like to search out old abandoned donkey engines in the wood and document and photograph them. I did a search and have seen there has been some interesting threads started on the subject. Is there any of you familiar with the California back country and might know of any abandoned donkey engines still out in the woods. Most of the original donkeys which were readily accessible had been pulled back in and scraped in the 40s for the WW2. scrape iron drives .Most all others have been stripped down by the steel scrapers.
But amazingly there still are many donkeys engines still sitting on their sleds right were they were abandoned still rigged up hiding in remote areas of the woods all over the Pacific North West, Alaska and BC. Im also always looking for locations of donkey engines that had been extracted out of the woods and that are now on display at public parks and museums
These photos are of a almost fully intact 1916 Willamette Humboldt Yarder abandoned in the Stanislaus NF woods by West Side Lumber Co of Tuolumne, Ca. It was pulled out of the woods in 66 and is currently on display at the old WSLCO Mill ill