This steam-powered log loader was purchased by the Forest Service for the Cradle of Forestry exhibit at the same time as the locomotive. This powerful machine could haul large, heavy logs up hill or down as far as the steel cable could reach. We got right next to the machine. Awesome!
At the end of the cable was a set of tongs which lumber jacks would pound into the log with a heavy maul. The log loader would act like a giant fishing pole and reel in the logs to itself where it would be pulled up and set on a log rack ontop of a flat-bed railroad car. This log loader could handle over 1,000 logs in one day’s work.
This log loader could do more than that. It could lift empty log cars off the tracks until they were needed. It could lift and move large timbers to build a railroad trestle. It could lift and load entire buildings onto log cars when it was necessary to move the logging camp.
At the end of the cable was a set of tongs which lumber jacks would pound into the log with a heavy maul. The log loader would act like a giant fishing pole and reel in the logs to itself where it would be pulled up and set on a log rack ontop of a flat-bed railroad car. This log loader could handle over 1,000 logs in one day’s work.
This log loader could do more than that. It could lift empty log cars off the tracks until they were needed. It could lift and move large timbers to build a railroad trestle. It could lift and load entire buildings onto log cars when it was necessary to move the logging camp.
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