Heavy iron

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[treeslayer2003]

that's a hell of a donkey.....museum?

 

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[Gologit]

that's a hell of a donkey.....museum?

Yup. Humboldt County Logging Museum in Eureka, Ca. The pictures are an old Washington Iron Works slackline yarder from about 1926.

 

[treeslayer2003]

they didn't have a carriage back then did they? you say its a yarder, did they go thru a block rigged high for lift?
sorry, mountain stuff from way back.......i'm curios. mules worked the flat land here.

 

[slowp]

they didn't have a carriage back then did they? you say its a yarder, did they go thru a block rigged high for lift?
sorry, mountain stuff from way back.......i'm curios. mules worked the flat land here.

Spar trees were rigged up.

 

[HuskStihl]

I'll bet you burned yourself more than a few times on that old girl when you were first cutting your teeth in logging

 

[treeslayer2003]

Jon.
Bob, I really was just curios.

 

[Gologit]

they didn't have a carriage back then did they? you say its a yarder, did they go thru a block rigged high for lift?
sorry, mountain stuff from way back.......i'm curios. mules worked the flat land here.

You could use that rig for a skyline show if you rigged a spar tree or you could run a straight skid if the end of the log was sniped. There was a lot of that.
When that thing was being used nobody paid much attention to how bad the ground got torn up. Erosion control wasn't an issue, sad to say. We paid for that in later years.
I don't know how much it could pull...a whole lot I'd guess. I wonder what it took for tail holds? When I was a kid starting out in the woods we'd find old busted up pieces of rusty 2" cable lying around. Some of the ends were frayed in a breakage pattern and I always wondered what kind of force it would take to snap rigging that size.
I never worked around steam ground lead equipment like that...Diesel yarders and Cats were already the norm when I started out. Sure would have liked to watch that old Washington pull, though. Must have been impressive.

 

[Gologit]

I'll bet you burned yourself more than a few times on that old girl when you were first cutting your teeth in logging

Little bit before my time, Jon. We used to find stuff like this abandoned in the woods when I was a boy. We were too poor for playground equipment so we used what we found.

 

[northmanlogging]

That may be the biggest steam yarder I've ever seen, three drums too, most of the ones you see around here only have 2 drums.

There is/used to be a steam logging show in Pomeroy once a year, 2nd weekend in June or so. They had a Yarder and a loader running of live steam last I knew, Bunch of other old Iron wandering around too.

Keep wanting to go down and check it out, but I know I'll get involved somehow and bore the snot outa the war Dept.

 

[treeslayer2003]

now the arch looks more familier, that's a nice one. small donky looks better to me to, no hills but they used um to get cypress out the swap sometimes.

 

[treeslayer2003]

don't look like y'all have as bad a rust that we do. a lot of stuff is just gone over here.

 

[slowp]

found this illustration on the innernet. Remember, you can put twisters on the stumps that the tail tree is guyed out to, and get real complicated to keep that tree up.
Humptulips could 'splain much better.

 

[2dogs]

Here is a little bit newer and a whole lot smaller donkey winch. It is in the shop right now but we will take it back to the jobsite as soon as it's fixed and the weather cooperates.

 

[2dogs]

Patty I have an old Skookum catalog you and Benjamin may have looked at back in November. It had several drawings like that with lots of BIG blocks like that 24" block in your drawing. The last block I hung in a tree was a 4" Mckissick and it was just to get a little more lift.

 

[treeslayer2003]

thanks Ms. P, picture is worth a thousand words. it all makes more sense now.
2dogs, that's pretty neat. I didn't know y'all still used stuff like that.
any where we would use that here [swamp] it would not be legal to do so.

 

[treeslayer2003]

2dogs, how much will that little rig bring up the hill? 500 bft.....1000?

 

[2dogs]

2dogs, how much will that little rig bring up the hill? 500 bft.....1000?

It is a 12,000lb DP hydraulic winch powered by a Kohler 25hp air cooled gas motor. What it can pull volume wise is all about friction. Right now we are pulling euc up a steep hill using a lift pulley (near the crest of the hill) and then dragging the load a short distance on the ground. The winch will pull 12k, how it is rigged determines how much wood is moved. It sure is not a yarder.

 

[treeslayer2003]

so its a lot different than what a skidder would just winch up a hill then.
wish I knew more about rigging, that skill has been lost here for a couple generations.
seems like small cable.