My brother-in-law (age 63) is a logger in Oregon as was his father and grandfather. He only does the hauling these days with a self-loader. I’d like to include an old time logging operation as part of my layout in Pinetop, AZ. He has given me some really old pictures but I need more detail on how those steam powered donkeys actually pulled and loaded logs onto railcars. Can someone point me in the right direction to get my research started?
Also what works for growing miniture forested hill sides for logging? I’m at 7K ft elevation in the pine trees. My saw mill is from a Garden-Texture kit. I plan to locate it near the town and rail logs to it for mill operations.
To get high quality pics theres olny one place to go, a book. Check the libarys and used book stores around. One I’d recomend is “this was logging” and anything taken by dorus Kinsey.
Ask and yee shall receive! Thanks guys. I’ve just spent several fascinating hours going through all kinds of pictures and data on how it was back then. Trully amazing.
After much research I built these two steam donkeys which I’ll set up to do skyline logging with the “High Lead Cable System”. The bigger donkey will do the yarding and the little donkey will do the loading.
Now all I need is a forest which I guess I’ll have to plant. Any ideas??
Here is a nice write up I did a while back about logging in the early 20th century. I had actually forgotten that it was still on site, but here it is.
Here is a picture of a log flume/skid from my brother-in-law’s collection of his grandfather in Oregon. No water in this one. Just some donkeys slidding logs.
For the Forest or what? I’d think a needle shrub of some sort. Its eazy to plant and care, and trim. GO POWER TOOLS. Great job, by the way. Wounder if one of these would work better.
This one has been cut way down.
At camp 6 outside tacoma WA. Ran the crane, two skid lines and a teatherline.
Nice work pulling the stories and pictures together. I do plan on putting a spar tree up with very simple high line rigging. I want the kids to be able to run the pullies and haul logs up the hill. Who knows maybe they will learn something in the process of playing.
