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DugCo Production
Steam donkeys are huge steam powered winches used for hauling logs from where they were cut to a location for loading on rail cars. Sometimes, when their usefulness came to an end, it would have been too costly to drag them out of the woods. They were left where they were, only to searched for like hidden treasure decades later.
The
Journey - Roaming around on the
logging roads in a jeep is a lot of fun. This is a view over the hood
of the jeep as we search for our quarry.
Planning
the Search - Dick and Randy
plan a methodical search of the area for the missing steam donkeys.
Or, we may just be lost again.
The
Mighty Hunter - Dick comes back
from a climb to the bottom of a valley and back.
Donkey
workings - The workings of
donkey #1
Donkey
#1 - This gives you an idea of
the size of these machines
Firebox
door - View of the firebox door
on donkey #1
Boiler
tubes - Inside the firebox of
donkey #1, looking up at the boiler tubes
Back to
Nature - The massive iron
workings of this huge steam donkey (#2) slowly return to the
ground.
Climbing
the boiler - Dick climbs on
donkey #2
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