Current Events

 

 

 

 CURRENT ACTIVITIES 2006

 

 

        

 

CURRENT ACTIVITY: 

 

1. We moved a donkey out of the woods on June 15, 2005 by a helicopter.  It was in a remote location of the coast range in Northwest Oregon.  It is now placed on a concrete slab at the new Tillamook Burn interpretative center on the Wilson River Highway, near Lee's Camp and is a permanent part of the display.  It will undergo cosmetic restoration.  Any volunteers to help with this project?

 

2. Our steel sixty foot trestle at Deer Island is painted and had the ties installed over the top during one of our last work parties.  It is nearing completion and also makes for great short cut across the canyon!  We will continue to work on this trestle and have started on our smaller east trestle.  Other activities will be laying track and installing a turntable in front of the rail car barn.

 

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Past Events

 

THE REAL THING.

 

We logged with a real steam donkey near Battleground, Washington for four days on July 4 weekend.  We used a 6.25 X10 Willamette wood-fired donkey.  We hope to have a full account of this experience and another in the next Timber Times magazine (#29.)   We also did the real thing Sept., 2001 for the Pacific Logging Congress near Vernonia, Oregon, which will be mentioned in the same article.  We plan on logging this commercial site again once a year for the next three years on July 4 weekend.  We hope to combine it with the logging modeler’s convention next year.  Won’t you join us? 

 

            DONKEY HUNT

 

We visited a Washington Iron Works two-speed 12x14 yarder in the woods near Sayward, B.C. on the last day of the logging modeler’s conference.  This is a spectacular find. Most everything is still there since the last day it ran in 1959.  This article will appear in OSO publisher’s Tall Timber, Short Lines.  This machine might be for sale.  (Anyone?)  On display in the area is an Empire duplex loader with a new sled!  

 

            SCALE LOGGING

 

The first run at Bickleton, Washington was a blast with an operating railroad and Leroy Johnston’s steam yarder and manual loader.  We yarded uphill, then loaded skelton cars and sent them on their way.  We continue to operate our logging system at Deer Island, Oregon twice a year.  Work party:  The Car barn is finished.  It has three rails and holds a number of cars when stacked on each other.  The west trestle is progressing along.  We have most of the base footings done and will start to set up the bents when time allows.  The total track laid now is around 100 ft.  Our next run is Sept 13&14.  Ask for directions.  (See e-mail address elsewhere on this web.)  

 

            FLYING DONKEY PROJECT 

Can steam donkeys fly?  Well, a large helicopter can air lift a steam donkey in pieces. Aug. 2001.  Interested people living in the Powell River, B.C. area decided to move a long-lost Empire donkey that was on a remote ridge up Powell Lake from Haywire Bay to the Powell River Forestry Museum.  Fortunate also, that they were able to find logs large enough to build a sled.  This Empire donkey, built in Vancouver, B.C., is a four drum yarder.  Timber Times will carry the complete story about this machine at some future date.  See photo in the "Donkey Section" of this web site.

 

            

 

            ADDENDUM

  If you haven’t attended any of these events, you are missing a lot.

 

            MERV

 

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