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A steam donkey or donkey engine is a steam-powered winch once widely used in logging, mining, maritime, and other industrial applications.

Steam-powered donkeys were commonly found on large metal-hulled multi-masted cargo vessels in the later decades of the Age of Sail on through the Age of Steam, particularly heavily sailed skeleton-crewed windjammers.

A donkey used in forestry, also known as a logging engine, was often attached to a yarder for hauling logs from where trees were felled to a central processing area. The operator of a donkey was known as a donkeyman.

Name

Steam donkeys acquired their name from their origin in sailing ships, where the "donkey" engine was typically a small secondary engine used to load and unload cargo and raise the larger sails with small crews, or to power pumps. They were classified by their cylinder type – simplex (single-acting cylinder) or duplex (a compound engine); by their connection to the winches (or "drums") – triple-drum, double-drum, etc.; and by their different uses.

A good deal of the cable-logging terminology derived from 19th-century merchant sailing, as much of the early technology originated in that industry. Common logging terms include high-lead yarder, ground-lead yarder, loader, snubber, and incline hoist.

History

In logging

Steam donkey on display at Disney California Adventure Park theme park

John Dolbeer, a founding partner of the Dolbeer and Carson Lumber Company in Eureka, California, invented the logging engine in that city^[1] in August 1881. The patent (number: 256553) was issued April 18, 1882. On Dolbeer's first model, a 46-metre (150 ft), 110-millimetre (4.5 in) manila rope was wrapped several times around a gypsy head (vertically mounted spool) and attached at the other end to a log.^[2]^[3]

The invention of the steam donkey increased lumber production by enabling the transport of trees that would previously have been left behind because they were too large to move. They also enabled logging in hot or cold weather, which was not previously possible with the use of animal power.^[4]

Later, the invention of the internal-combustion engine led to the development of the diesel-powered tractor crawler, which eventually made the steam donkey obsolete. Though some have been preserved in museums, very few are in operating order. A great number still sit abandoned in the forests.

Design

A logging donkey consists of a steam boiler and steam engine,^[5]^[6] connected to a winch mounted on a sled called a donkey sled.^[7]^[8] The donkeys were moved by simply dragging themselves with the winch line, originally hemp rope and later steel cable. They were used to move logs, by attaching lines to the logs and hauling them.^[9]^[10]

The larger steam donkeys often had a "donkey house" (a makeshift shelter for the crew) built either on the skids or as a separate structure. Usually, a water tank, and sometimes a fuel oil tank, was mounted on the back of the sled. In rare cases, steam donkeys were also mounted on wheels. Later steam donkeys were built with multiple horizontally mounted drums/spools.

Use

Dolbeer "Logging Engine"
(Patent 256,553)

In the simplest logging setup, a "line horse" would carry the cable out to a log where its tree had been downed. The cable would be attached, and, on signal, the donkey's operator (an engineer) would open the regulator, allowing the steam donkey to drag, or "skid", the log towards it. The log was taken either to a mill or to a "landing" where it would be transferred for onward shipment by railroad, road or river – either send down a flume, loaded onto boats, or floated directly in the water, often becoming part of a large log raft or "boom". Later, a "haulback" drum was added to the donkey, where a smaller cable could be routed around the "setting" and connected to the end of the heavier "mainline" to replace the line horse.

A donkey was moved by attaching one of its cables to a tree, stump or other strong anchor, then dragging itself overland to the next yarding location.

In Canada, and in particular Ontario, the donkey engine was often mounted on a barge that could float and thus winch itself over both land and water. Log booms would be winched across water with the engine, after which it would often be reconfigured with a saw to mill the timber.

Operator

A "donkey puncher" on the job in a gyppo logging operation in Tillamook County, Oregon. (October 1941)

A logging donkey would be operated by an engineer^[11]^[12] called since about 1920^[13] a donkey puncher.^[14]^[15]

In later times the donkey puncher was too far away from the end of the line for verbal communication, so whistle codes were developed similar to those used by tug boats employing steam whistles.^[16] The whistle operator was known as a whistle punk,^[16]^[17] who was placed between the men attaching the cables (choker setters),^[18] and the donkey puncher, so that he could see the choker setters.^[16]^[19] When the cables were attached, a series of whistle blows signaled the donkey to begin pulling and the choker setters to stay out of harm's way.^[16]^[20]

The process was a closely orchestrated sequence of actions, where mistakes were often fatal and where good men stood in line for the jobs.^[21] Although the steam engine, and its whistle, have been replaced by gasoline and diesel engines,^[22] the whistle codes are still used in many current logging operations. The whistle has been replaced largely with airhorns.^[23]^[24]

Other uses

Steam donkeys were also found to be useful for powering other machines such as pile drivers, slide-back loaders (also known as "slide-jammers", cranes which were used to load logs onto railroad cars and which moved along the flat-bed rail cars that were to be loaded^[25]), and cherry pickers (a sled-mounted crane used for loading, onto railroad cars, logs that a grading crew had cut down). Sailing fishing vessels on the North sea operated vertical steam-driven capstans called 'the donkey' to haul fishing lines and nets, some of which are still operating today, even though converted to compressed air.

Some steamboats used a steam-driven donkey hoisting-engine with capstan, ropes and strong poles (spars) to move "walk" the boat over or away from reefs and sandbars.^[26]

An auxiliary engine on a sailing craft (which does propel the vessel) is still sometimes informally known as "the donk".^{[citation needed]}

Preserved examples

Willamette Steam donkey preserved at Caspar Lumber Company Camp 20 adjacent to California State Route 20

A functioning steam donkey is on display and occasionally operated at Fort Humboldt State Historic Park in Eureka, California. A non-functioning steam donkey accompanied by a plaque explaining the history of the machine is on permanent display at Grizzly River Run, an attraction at Disney California Adventure Park. Another collection of steam donkeys is located at the Point Defiance Park, Camp 6 Logging Museum located in Tacoma, Washington. The collection includes various steam donkeys, including one of the last very large ones built, and others at various stages of restoration.

Another steam donkey is on display along an interpretive trail at the Sierra Nevada Logging Museum in Calaveras County, California, an indoor open-air museum about the Sierra Nevada logging industry and history.^[27]

Another steam donkey is preserved at Roaring Camp Railroads park in Felton, California.

Another steam donkey is preserved at Legoland Billund on their Wild West gold-mine-themed railroad.

On August 1, 2009, a Steam Donkey was officially unveiled at McLean Mill National Historic Site in Port Alberni, British Columbia. It is now the only commercially operating steam donkey in North America. On that occasion, due to extreme fire risk, demonstrations of the donkey were not performed, but the logs hauled by previous test runs of the donkey (and had been loaded onto a truck) were dumped into the McLean Mill millpond, representing the first steam-powered commercial logging operation in North America in decades. This machine continued to operate after R. B. Mclean shuttered the steam-powered McLean Mill site in 1965. It ran until 1972 and was abandoned on site. It was restored by the Alberni Valley Industrial Heritage Society in 1986 for Expo 86 and, more recently, was re-certified for commercial use at McLean Mill. Agreements have been made with forestland owner Island Timberlands (owned by Brookfield Asset Management) to log, mill, and sell trees and lumber from the surroundings of McLean Mill.

A wide-face steam donkey (called that because the width of the drum is greater in proportion to that in later machines) has been operational at the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum in Tillamook, Oregon, since the early 1980s. Manufactured by the Puget Sound Iron & Steel Works in the early 1900s, this donkey was abandoned in the woods when the Reiger family finished logging their land in about 1952. The steam donkey was rescued and restored from 1979 to 1981. It was donated to the Pioneer Museum by the Ned Rieger family and has been on display on the Museum grounds.

A vertical steam capstan called "donkey" for hauling fishing lines and nets is preserved on the museum fishing vessel Balder in the historic harbour of Vlaardingen (near Rotterdam), the Netherlands.

Another steam donkey is located on the Monarch Lake Loop in the Indian Peaks Wilderness near Grand Lake, Colorado on Arapaho Pass Trail #6. This steam donkey was used by the, now abandoned and flooded, town of Monarch to harvest logs from the mountain sides.^[28]

References

^ History of Eureka, California - Timeline of Historically Significant Events
^ Wilma, David (1 March 2003). "John Dolbeer invents the donkey engine and revolutionizes logging in August 1881". HistoryLink.org. Retrieved 27 February 2007.
^ Richard L. Williams, The Loggers (New York: Time-Life Books, 1976), 112–113; ISBN 0-8094-1527-5
^ Sowards, Adam; Sowards, Adam M. (2007). United States West Coast: An Environmental History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-909-2.
^ Hull, Lise (2007). Coos County. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. p. 53. ISBN 978-0738548036.
^ Albrecht, Bob (2 July 2011). "Learning about the old way to log". The Columbian. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
^ Leavell, Chuck; Mary Welch (2001). Forever Green: The History and Hope of the American Forest. Mercer University Press. p. 92. ISBN 0865549001.
^ Bolling, Arthur Johnson, ed. (July–December 1920). Chicago Lumberman. Chicago, Illinois: Lumber World Review; Lumber Review Company. p. 127; Volume 39.
^ MacConomy, Alma Deane (1968). Odd Jobs in Lumbering. Putnam Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0399604973.
^ Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo (1999). Hard Traveling: A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest. University of Nebraska Press. p. 103. ISBN 0803292708.
^ Federal Writers Project (1972). Oregon: End of the Trail - American Guide Series. Scholarly Press. p. 369. ISBN 0403021863.
^ Durston, Tammy (2010). Annapolis and the Gualala River. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 978-0738581149.
^ Dalzell, Tom; Terry Victor (2007). The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang. Routledge. p. 211. ISBN 978-0415212595.
^ Barman, Jean (2007). The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802093097.
^ Bellamy, Stanley E. (2007). Running Springs. Images of America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 978-0738546797.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Rombes, Nicholas (2009). A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982. Continuum. pp. 305–310. ISBN 978-0826427793.
^ Hughes, John C.; Ryan Teague Beckwith (2010). On the Harbor: From Black Friday to Nirvana. Stephens Press LLC. p. 16. ISBN 978-1932173505.
^ United Press International (24 June 1969). "Balloons assume role of Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox". Beaver County Times. Pennsylvania. p. C15.
^ Francis, Bob (6 April 1940). "Lingo of a mighty industry; Whistle Punk". The Vancouver Sun. p. 4.
^ "Woodsmen on coast have own language". The Owosso Argus Press. Owosso, Michigan. Associated Press. 8 August 1921. p. 8.
^ MacKay, Donald (2007). The Lumberjacks. Natural Heritage Books. pp. 179–181. ISBN 9781550027730.
^ Trower, Peter (1999). Chainsaws in the Cathedral. Ekstasis Editions Canada Ltd. p. 150. ISBN 978-1896860466.
^ United Press International (3 June 1989). "Loggers roll into Seattle for rally". Ellensburg Daily Record. Seattle, Washington. p. 3.
^ "Logging convoy is crossing Wyoming". Merced Sun-Star. Cheyenne, Wyoming. Associated Press. 18 May 1977. p. 15.
^ Frank A. King, Minnesota Logging Railroads (Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), pages 155-159.
^ [1] The Steamboat Era: A History Of Fulton's Folly On American Rivers, 1807-1860 | Author: S. L. Kotar | J. E. Gessler | 2009
^ "Historical Museum in Arnold, CA". Sierra Nevada Logging Museum. Archived from the original on 10 June 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
^ "Town of Monarch abandoned after 4 years". Loveland Reporter-Herald. 14 July 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2021.

External links

The Anatomy of a Steam Donkey (image)
Steam Donkeys
The Donkey Engine—Steam & Engine of Australia
Turtle Bay Exploration Park's Dolbeer Steam Donkey (video)^{[dead link‍]}
Steam Power—Pacific County Historical Society and Museum
Kinsey Brother Photography of the Lumber Industry—University of Washington Library
Man to Machine: Peninsula Logging—an exhibit at the University of Washington Library
Glossary of Logging terms, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, under Donkey puncher and Whistlepunk.

[1] History of Eureka, California - Timeline of Historically Significant Events

[Essay_5331-2] Wilma, David (1 March 2003). "John Dolbeer invents the donkey engine and revolutionizes logging in August 1881". HistoryLink.org. Retrieved 27 February 2007.

[3] Richard L. Williams, The Loggers (New York: Time-Life Books, 1976), 112–113; ISBN 0-8094-1527-5

[4] Sowards, Adam; Sowards, Adam M. (2007). United States West Coast: An Environmental History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-909-2.

[5] Hull, Lise (2007). Coos County. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. p. 53. ISBN 978-0738548036.

[6] Albrecht, Bob (2 July 2011). "Learning about the old way to log". The Columbian. Retrieved 13 September 2012.

[7] Leavell, Chuck; Mary Welch (2001). Forever Green: The History and Hope of the American Forest. Mercer University Press. p. 92. ISBN 0865549001.

[8] Bolling, Arthur Johnson, ed. (July–December 1920). Chicago Lumberman. Chicago, Illinois: Lumber World Review; Lumber Review Company. p. 127; Volume 39.

[MacConomy-9] MacConomy, Alma Deane (1968). Odd Jobs in Lumbering. Putnam Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0399604973.

[10] Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo (1999). Hard Traveling: A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest. University of Nebraska Press. p. 103. ISBN 0803292708.

[11] Federal Writers Project (1972). Oregon: End of the Trail - American Guide Series. Scholarly Press. p. 369. ISBN 0403021863.

[12] Durston, Tammy (2010). Annapolis and the Gualala River. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 978-0738581149.

[13] Dalzell, Tom; Terry Victor (2007). The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang. Routledge. p. 211. ISBN 978-0415212595.

[barman-14] Barman, Jean (2007). The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802093097.

[15] Bellamy, Stanley E. (2007). Running Springs. Images of America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 978-0738546797.

[rombes-16] Rombes, Nicholas (2009). A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982. Continuum. pp. 305–310. ISBN 978-0826427793.

[17] Hughes, John C.; Ryan Teague Beckwith (2010). On the Harbor: From Black Friday to Nirvana. Stephens Press LLC. p. 16. ISBN 978-1932173505.

[18] United Press International (24 June 1969). "Balloons assume role of Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox". Beaver County Times. Pennsylvania. p. C15.

[19] Francis, Bob (6 April 1940). "Lingo of a mighty industry; Whistle Punk". The Vancouver Sun. p. 4.

[20] "Woodsmen on coast have own language". The Owosso Argus Press. Owosso, Michigan. Associated Press. 8 August 1921. p. 8.

[21] MacKay, Donald (2007). The Lumberjacks. Natural Heritage Books. pp. 179–181. ISBN 9781550027730.

[22] Trower, Peter (1999). Chainsaws in the Cathedral. Ekstasis Editions Canada Ltd. p. 150. ISBN 978-1896860466.

[23] United Press International (3 June 1989). "Loggers roll into Seattle for rally". Ellensburg Daily Record. Seattle, Washington. p. 3.

[24] "Logging convoy is crossing Wyoming". Merced Sun-Star. Cheyenne, Wyoming. Associated Press. 18 May 1977. p. 15.

[25] Frank A. King, Minnesota Logging Railroads (Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), pages 155-159.

[26] [1] The Steamboat Era: A History Of Fulton's Folly On American Rivers, 1807-1860 | Author: S. L. Kotar | J. E. Gessler | 2009

[27] "Historical Museum in Arnold, CA". Sierra Nevada Logging Museum. Archived from the original on 10 June 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2023.

[28] "Town of Monarch abandoned after 4 years". Loveland Reporter-Herald. 14 July 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2021.

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 A '''steam donkey''' or '''donkey engine''' is a [[steam engine|steam-powered]] [[winch]] once widely used in [[logging]], [[mining]], [[Shipping industry|maritime]], and other industrial applications.
-Steam powered donkeys were commonly found on large metal-hulled multi-masted cargo vessels in the later decades of the [[Age of Sail]] on through the [[Steam-powered vessel|Age of Steam]], particularly heavily-sailed [[Skeleton crew|skeleton-crewed]] [[windjammers]].
+Steam-powered donkeys were commonly found on large metal-hulled multi-masted cargo vessels in the later decades of the [[Age of Sail]] on through the [[Steam-powered vessel|Age of Steam]], particularly heavily sailed [[Skeleton crew|skeleton-crewed]] [[windjammers]].
 A donkey used in forestry, also known as a '''logging engine''', was often attached to a [[yarder]] for hauling logs from where trees were felled to a central processing area. The operator of a donkey was known as a '''donkeyman'''.
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 Steam donkeys acquired their name from their origin in sailing ships, where the "donkey" engine was typically a small secondary engine used to load and unload cargo and raise the larger sails with small crews, or to power pumps.  They were classified by their cylinder type – simplex (single-acting cylinder) or duplex (a [[compound engine#Multiple expansion engines|compound engine]]); by their connection to the winches (or "drums") – triple-drum, double-drum, etc.; and by their different uses.
-A good deal of the cable-logging terminology  derived from 19th-century merchant sailing, as much of the early technology originated in that industry.  Common logging terms include high-lead [[yarder]], ground-lead yarder, loader, snubber, and incline hoist.
+A good deal of the cable-logging terminology  derived from 19th-century merchant sailing, as much of the early technology originated in that industry.  Common logging terms include high-lead yarder, ground-lead yarder, loader, snubber, and incline hoist.
 ==History==
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 [[Image:Dcasteamdonkey.jpg|thumb|Steam donkey on display at [[Disney California Adventure Park]] theme park]]
-[[John Dolbeer]], a founding partner of the Dolbeer and Carson Lumber Company in [[Eureka, California]], invented the logging engine in that city<ref>[http://www.ci.eureka.ca.gov/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=4459 History of Eureka, California - Timeline of Historically Significant Events]</ref> in August 1881. The patent [http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT256553&id=VGZdAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=256,553#PPA3,M1 (number: 256553)] was issued April 18, 1882. On Dolbeer's first model, a {{convert|150|ft|m|order=flip|adj=on}}, {{convert|4.5|in|mm|order=flip|adj=on}} manila rope was wrapped several times around a gypsy head (vertically mounted spool) and attached at the other end to a log.<ref name='Essay 5331'>{{cite news | first=David | last=Wilma | title=John Dolbeer invents the donkey engine and revolutionizes logging in August 1881. | date=March 1, 2003 | publisher=HistoryLink.org | url =http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5331 | access-date = 2007-02-27 }}</ref><ref>Richard L. Williams, ''The Loggers'' (New York: Time-Life Books, 1976), 112–113; {{ISBN|0-8094-1527-5}}</ref>
+[[John Dolbeer]], a founding partner of the Dolbeer and Carson Lumber Company in [[Eureka, California]], invented the logging engine in that city<ref>[http://www.ci.eureka.ca.gov/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=4459 History of Eureka, California - Timeline of Historically Significant Events]</ref> in August 1881. The patent [https://patents.google.com/patent/US256553 (number: 256553)] was issued April 18, 1882. On Dolbeer's first model, a {{convert|150|ft|m|order=flip|adj=on}}, {{convert|4.5|in|mm|order=flip|adj=on}} manila rope was wrapped several times around a gypsy head (vertically mounted spool) and attached at the other end to a log.<ref name='Essay 5331'>{{cite news | first=David | last=Wilma | title=John Dolbeer invents the donkey engine and revolutionizes logging in August 1881. | date=March 1, 2003 | publisher=HistoryLink.org | url =http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5331 | access-date = 2007-02-27 }}</ref><ref>Richard L. Williams, ''The Loggers'' (New York: Time-Life Books, 1976), 112–113; {{ISBN|0-8094-1527-5}}</ref>
-The invention of the steam donkey increased lumber production by enabling loggers to cut trees that they would not have previously been able to transport. They also enabled logging in hot or cold weather, which was not previously possible with the use of animal power.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Sowards|first1=Adam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQ2lEjoILJMC&dq=%22steam+donkey%22&pg=PA122|title=United States West Coast: An Environmental History|last2=Sowards|first2=Adam M.|date=2007|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-909-2|language=en}}</ref>
+The invention of the steam donkey increased lumber production by enabling the transport of trees that would previously have been left behind because they were too large to move. They also enabled logging in hot or cold weather, which was not previously possible with the use of animal power.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Sowards|first1=Adam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQ2lEjoILJMC&dq=%22steam+donkey%22&pg=PA122|title=United States West Coast: An Environmental History|last2=Sowards|first2=Adam M.|date=2007|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-909-2|language=en}}</ref>
-Later, the invention of the [[internal-combustion]] engine led to the development of the diesel-powered [[tractor crawler]], which eventually put an end to the steam donkey. Though some have been preserved in museums, very few are in operating order. A great number still sit abandoned in the forests.
+Later, the invention of the [[internal-combustion]] engine led to the development of the diesel-powered [[tractor crawler]], which eventually made the steam donkey obsolete. Though some have been preserved in museums, very few are in operating order. A great number still sit abandoned in the forests.
 ==Design==
-A logging donkey consists of a [[steam boiler]] and [[steam engine]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Coos County|first=Lise|last=Hull|page=53|series=Images of America|year=2007|isbn= 978-0738548036|publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Learning about the old way to log|work=[[The Columbian]]|url=http://www.columbian.com/news/2011/jul/02/learning-about-the-old-way-to-log/|date=July 2, 2011|access-date=September 13, 2012|first=Bob|last=Albrecht}}</ref> connected to a [[winch]] mounted on a sled called a [[donkey sled]].<ref>{{cite book|page=92|title=Forever Green: The History and Hope of the American Forest |year=2001|first=Chuck |last=Leavell|author2=Mary Welch |publisher=[[Mercer University Press]]|isbn= 0865549001 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=127; Volume 39|editor-last=Bolling|editor-first=Arthur Johnson |title=Chicago Lumberman|publisher=Lumber World Review; Lumber Review Company|date=July–December 1920|location=[[Chicago, Illinois]]}}</ref> The donkeys were moved by simply dragging themselves with the winch line, originally hemp rope and later steel cable. They were used to move logs, by attaching lines to the logs and hauling them.<ref name="MacConomy">{{cite book|last=MacConomy|first=Alma Deane|year=1968|title=Odd Jobs in Lumbering|publisher=Putnam Publishing Group|isbn =978-0399604973}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=103|title=Hard Traveling: A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest|first=Carlos Arnaldo |last=Schwantes|year=1999|isbn= 0803292708|publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]]}}</ref>
+A logging donkey consists of a [[steam boiler]] and [[steam engine]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Coos County|first=Lise|last=Hull|page=53|series=Images of America|year=2007|isbn= 978-0738548036|publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Learning about the old way to log|work=[[The Columbian]]|url=http://www.columbian.com/news/2011/jul/02/learning-about-the-old-way-to-log/|date=July 2, 2011|access-date=September 13, 2012|first=Bob|last=Albrecht}}</ref> connected to a [[winch]] mounted on a sled called a '''donkey sled'''.<ref>{{cite book|page=92|title=Forever Green: The History and Hope of the American Forest |year=2001|first=Chuck |last=Leavell|author2=Mary Welch |publisher=[[Mercer University Press]]|isbn= 0865549001 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=127; Volume 39|editor-last=Bolling|editor-first=Arthur Johnson |title=Chicago Lumberman|publisher=Lumber World Review; Lumber Review Company|date=July–December 1920|location=[[Chicago, Illinois]]}}</ref> The donkeys were moved by simply dragging themselves with the winch line, originally hemp rope and later steel cable. They were used to move logs, by attaching lines to the logs and hauling them.<ref name="MacConomy">{{cite book|last=MacConomy|first=Alma Deane|year=1968|title=Odd Jobs in Lumbering|publisher=Putnam Publishing Group|isbn =978-0399604973}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=103|title=Hard Traveling: A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest|first=Carlos Arnaldo |last=Schwantes|year=1999|isbn= 0803292708|publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]]}}</ref>
 The larger steam donkeys often had a "donkey house" (a makeshift shelter for the crew) built either on the skids or as a separate structure. Usually, a water tank, and sometimes a fuel oil tank, was mounted on the back of the sled. In rare cases, steam donkeys were also mounted on wheels. Later steam donkeys were built with multiple horizontally mounted drums/spools.
 ==Use==
-[[Image:Dolbeer-patent-1.jpg|thumb|Dolbeer "Logging Engine"<br />([http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT256553&id=VGZdAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=256,553#PPA3,M1 Patent 256,553])]]
+[[Image:Dolbeer-patent-1.jpg|thumb|Dolbeer "Logging Engine"<br />([https://patents.google.com/patent/US256553 Patent 256,553])]]
-In the simplest logging setup a "line horse" would carry the cable out to a log where its tree had been downed. The cable would be attached, and, on signal, the donkey's operator (an engineer) would open the regulator, allowing the steam donkey to drag, or "skid", the log towards it. The log was taken either to a mill or to a "landing" where it would be transferred for onward shipment by railroad, road or river &ndash; either send down a [[flume]], loaded onto boats, or floated directly in the water, often becoming part of a large log raft or "boom".  Later, a "haulback" drum was added to the donkey, where a smaller cable could be routed around the "setting" and connected to the end of the heavier "mainline" to replace the line horse.
+In the simplest logging setup, a "line horse" would carry the cable out to a log where its tree had been downed. The cable would be attached, and, on signal, the donkey's operator (an engineer) would open the regulator, allowing the steam donkey to drag, or "skid", the log towards it. The log was taken either to a mill or to a "landing" where it would be transferred for onward shipment by railroad, road or river &ndash; either send down a [[flume]], loaded onto boats, or floated directly in the water, often becoming part of a large log raft or "boom".  Later, a "haulback" drum was added to the donkey, where a smaller cable could be routed around the "setting" and connected to the end of the heavier "mainline" to replace the line horse.
 A donkey was moved by attaching one of its cables to a tree, stump or other strong anchor, then dragging itself overland to the next yarding location.
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 ===Operator===
-{{other uses|Donkey punch (disambiguation)}}
+{{redirect|Donkey puncher|other uses|Donkey punch (disambiguation)}}
 [[File:DonkeyPuncher-Oct1941.jpg|thumb|A "donkey puncher" on the job in a [[Gyppo logger|gyppo logging]] operation in [[Tillamook County, Oregon]]. (October 1941)]]
-A logging donkey would be operated by an [[engineer]]<ref>{{cite book|page=369|title=Oregon: End of the Trail - American Guide Series|author=Federal Writers Project|isbn= 0403021863|year=1972|publisher=Scholarly Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Annapolis and the Gualala River|first=Tammy|last=Durston|page=19|series=Images of America|publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]]|isbn= 978-0738581149|year=2010}}</ref> called since about 1920<ref>{{cite book|last=Dalzell|first=Tom|title=The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang|author2=Terry Victor|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2007|isbn=978-0415212595|page=211}}</ref> a '''donkey puncher'''.<ref name="barman">{{cite book|last=Barman|first= Jean |year=2007|title=The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia|publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]]| isbn= 9780802093097}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Running Springs|first=Stanley E.|last=Bellamy|page=28|year=2007|series=Images of America|publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]]|location=[[Charleston, South Carolina]]|isbn= 978-0738546797}}</ref>
+A logging donkey would be operated by an [[engineer]]<ref>{{cite book|page=369|title=Oregon: End of the Trail - American Guide Series|author=Federal Writers Project|isbn= 0403021863|year=1972|publisher=Scholarly Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Annapolis and the Gualala River|first=Tammy|last=Durston|page=19|series=Images of America|publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]]|isbn= 978-0738581149|year=2010}}</ref> called since about 1920<ref>{{cite book|last=Dalzell|first=Tom|title=The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang|author2=Terry Victor|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2007|isbn=978-0415212595|page=211}}</ref> a '''donkey puncher'''.<ref name="barman">{{cite book|last=Barman|first= Jean |year=2007|title=The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia|publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]]| isbn= 9780802093097}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Running Springs|first=Stanley E.|last=Bellamy|page=28|year=2007|series=Images of America|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|location=[[Charleston, South Carolina]]|isbn= 978-0738546797}}</ref>
-In later times the donkey puncher was too far away from the end of the line for verbal communication, so [[whistle code]]s  were developed similar to those used by [[tug boats]] employing [[steam whistle]]s).<ref name=rombes /> The whistle operator was known as a [[whistle punk]],<ref name=rombes /><ref>{{cite book|title=On the Harbor: From Black Friday to Nirvana|first=John C.|last=Hughes|author2=Ryan Teague Beckwith|year=2010|page=16|isbn= 978-1932173505|publisher=Stephens Press LLC}}</ref> who was placed between the men attaching the cables ([[choker setter]]s),<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Beaver County Times]]|date=June 24, 1969|title=Balloons assume role of Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox|author=United Press International|author-link=United Press International|page=C15|location=[[Pennsylvania]]}}</ref> and the donkey puncher, so that he could see the choker setters.<ref name=rombes /><ref>{{cite news|title=Lingo of a mighty industry; Whistle Punk|work=[[The Vancouver Sun]]|date=April 6, 1940|page=4|first=Bob|last=Francis}}</ref> When the cables were attached, a series of whistle blows signaled the donkey to begin pulling and the choker setters to stay out of harm's way.<ref name=rombes>{{cite book|last=Rombes|pages=[https://archive.org/details/culturaldictiona00romb/page/305 305–310]|title=A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982|first=Nicholas|publisher=Continuum|year=2009|isbn=978-0826427793|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/culturaldictiona00romb/page/305}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|work=[[The Owosso Argus Press]]|title=Woodsmen on coast have own language|date=August 8, 1921|location=[[Owosso, Michigan]]|page=8}}</ref>
+In later times the donkey puncher was too far away from the end of the line for verbal communication, so [[whistle code]]s  were developed similar to those used by [[tug boats]] employing [[steam whistle]]s.<ref name=rombes /> The whistle operator was known as a [[whistle punk]],<ref name=rombes /><ref>{{cite book|title=On the Harbor: From Black Friday to Nirvana|first=John C.|last=Hughes|author2=Ryan Teague Beckwith|year=2010|page=16|isbn= 978-1932173505|publisher=Stephens Press LLC}}</ref> who was placed between the men attaching the cables ([[choker setter]]s),<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Beaver County Times]]|date=June 24, 1969|title=Balloons assume role of Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox|author=United Press International|author-link=United Press International|page=C15|location=[[Pennsylvania]]}}</ref> and the donkey puncher, so that he could see the choker setters.<ref name=rombes /><ref>{{cite news|title=Lingo of a mighty industry; Whistle Punk|work=[[The Vancouver Sun]]|date=April 6, 1940|page=4|first=Bob|last=Francis}}</ref> When the cables were attached, a series of whistle blows signaled the donkey to begin pulling and the choker setters to stay out of harm's way.<ref name=rombes>{{cite book|last=Rombes|pages=[https://archive.org/details/culturaldictiona00romb/page/305 305–310]|title=A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982|first=Nicholas|publisher=Continuum|year=2009|isbn=978-0826427793|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/culturaldictiona00romb/page/305}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|work=[[The Owosso Argus Press]]|title=Woodsmen on coast have own language|date=August 8, 1921|location=[[Owosso, Michigan]]|page=8}}</ref>
 The process was a closely orchestrated sequence of actions, where mistakes were often fatal and where good men stood in line for the jobs.<ref>{{cite book|first=Donald|last=MacKay|title=The Lumberjacks|pages=179–181|year=2007|publisher=Natural Heritage Books|isbn=9781550027730}}</ref> Although the steam engine, and its whistle, have been replaced by [[gasoline]] and [[diesel engine]]s,<ref>{{cite book|title=Chainsaws in the Cathedral|year=1999|page=150|first=Peter|last=Trower|publisher=Ekstasis Editions Canada Ltd.|isbn=978-1896860466}}</ref> the whistle codes are still used in many current [[logging]] operations. The whistle has been replaced largely with [[airhorn]]s.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Ellensburg Daily Record]]|title=Loggers roll into Seattle for rally|date=June 3, 1989|page=3|location=[[Seattle, Washington]]|author=United Press International|author-link=United Press International}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Logging convoy is crossing Wyoming|work=[[Merced Sun-Star]]|date=May 18, 1977|location=[[Cheyenne, Wyoming]]|agency=Associated Press|page=15}}</ref>
 ===Other uses===
-Steam donkeys were also found to be useful for powering other machines such as [[pile driver]]s, [[slide-back loaders]] (also known as "slide-jammers", cranes which were used to load logs onto railroad cars and which moved along the flat-bed rail cars that were to be loaded<ref>Frank A. King, ''Minnesota Logging Railroads'' (Minneapolis, Minnesota:  University of Minnesota Press, 2003), [https://books.google.com/books?id=vrJpyeCNhXgC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false pages 155-159].</ref>), and cherry pickers (a sled-mounted crane used for loading, onto railroad cars, logs that a grading crew had cut down). Sailing fishing vessels on the North sea operated vertical steam-driven capstans called ´the donkey´ to haul fishing lines and nets, some of which are still operating today, even though converted to compressed air.
+Steam donkeys were also found to be useful for powering other machines such as [[pile driver]]s, [[slide-back loaders]] (also known as "slide-jammers", cranes which were used to load logs onto railroad cars and which moved along the flat-bed rail cars that were to be loaded<ref>Frank A. King, ''Minnesota Logging Railroads'' (Minneapolis, Minnesota:  University of Minnesota Press, 2003), [https://books.google.com/books?id=vrJpyeCNhXgC&pg=PA155 pages 155-159].</ref>), and cherry pickers (a sled-mounted crane used for loading, onto railroad cars, logs that a grading crew had cut down). Sailing fishing vessels on the North sea operated vertical steam-driven capstans called 'the donkey' to haul fishing lines and nets, some of which are still operating today, even though converted to compressed air.
 Some steamboats used a steam-driven donkey hoisting-engine with capstan, ropes and strong poles (spars) to move "walk" the boat over or away from reefs and sandbars.<ref>[https://epdf.pub/the-steamboat-era-a-history-of-fultons-folly-on-american-rivers-1807-1860.html] The Steamboat Era: A History Of Fulton's Folly On American Rivers, 1807-1860 | Author: S. L. Kotar | J. E. Gessler | 2009</ref>
-An auxiliary engine on a sailing craft (which ''does'' propel the vessel) is still sometimes informally known as "the donk".{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
+An auxiliary engine on a sailing craft (which {{em|does}} propel the vessel) is still sometimes informally known as "the donk".{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
 ==Preserved examples==
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 A functioning steam donkey is on display and occasionally operated at [[Fort Humboldt State Historic Park]] in Eureka, California. A non-functioning steam donkey accompanied by a plaque explaining the history of the machine is on permanent display at [[Grizzly River Run]], an attraction at [[Disney California Adventure Park]]. Another collection of steam donkeys is located at the Point Defiance Park, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080514115358/http://www.camp-6-museum.org/c6.html Camp 6 Logging Museum] located in Tacoma, Washington.  The collection includes various steam donkeys, including one of the last very large ones built, and others at various stages of restoration.
-Another steam donkey is on display along an interpretive [[trail]] at the [[Sierra Nevada Logging Museum]] in [[Calaveras County, California]], an indoor open-air museum about the [[Sierra Nevada logging]] industry and history.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sierraloggingmuseum.org/ |title= |website=sierraloggingmuseum.org |access-date=2010-07-07}}{{SemiBareRefNeedsTitle|date=May 2022}}</ref>
+Another steam donkey is on display along an interpretive [[trail]] at the [[Sierra Nevada Logging Museum]] in [[Calaveras County, California]], an indoor open-air museum about the [[Sierra Nevada logging]] industry and history.<ref>{{cite web |title=Historical Museum in Arnold, CA |url=http://sierraloggingmuseum.org/ |website=[[Sierra Nevada Logging Museum]] |access-date=14 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610184831/https://sierraloggingmuseum.org/ |archive-date=Jun 10, 2023 |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref>
-Another steam donkey is preserved at [[Legoland Billund]] on their [[Wild West]] gold-mine-themed railroad.
+Another steam donkey is preserved at [[Roaring Camp Railroads]] park in [[Felton, California]].
-Another steam donkey is preserved at [[Roaring Camp Railroads]] park in [[Felton]], California.
+Another steam donkey is preserved at [[Legoland Billund]] on their [[Wild West]] gold-mine-themed railroad.
 On August 1, 2009, a Steam Donkey was officially unveiled at [[McLean Mill National Historic Site]] in [[Port Alberni, British Columbia]].  It is now the only commercially operating steam donkey in North America.  On that occasion, due to extreme fire risk, demonstrations of the donkey were not performed, but the logs hauled by previous test runs of the donkey (and had been loaded onto a truck) were dumped into the McLean Mill millpond, representing the first steam-powered commercial logging operation in North America in decades.  This machine continued to operate after R. B. Mclean shuttered the steam-powered McLean Mill site in 1965.  It ran until 1972 and was abandoned on site. It was restored by the Alberni Valley Industrial Heritage Society in 1986 for [[Expo 86]] and, more recently, was re-certified for commercial use at McLean Mill.  Agreements have been made with forestland owner Island Timberlands (owned by [[Brookfield Asset Management]]) to log, mill, and sell trees and lumber from the surroundings of McLean Mill.
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 A vertical steam capstan called "donkey" for hauling fishing lines and nets is preserved on the museum fishing vessel ''Balder'' in the historic harbour of [[Vlaardingen]] (near Rotterdam), the Netherlands.
-Another steam donkey is located on the Monarch Lake Loop in the Indian Peaks Wilderness near [[Grand Lake, Colorado]] on Arapaho Pass Trail #6. This steam donkey was used by the, now abandoned and flooded, town of Monarch to harvest logs from the mountain sides.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-07-14|title=Town of Monarch abandoned after 4 years|url=https://www.reporterherald.com/ci_18473542/|access-date=2021-11-08|website=Loveland Reporter-Herald|language=en-US}}</ref>
+Another steam donkey is located on the [[Monarch Lake]] Loop in the Indian Peaks Wilderness near [[Grand Lake, Colorado]] on Arapaho Pass Trail #6. This steam donkey was used by the, now abandoned and flooded, town of Monarch to harvest logs from the mountain sides.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-07-14|title=Town of Monarch abandoned after 4 years|url=https://www.reporterherald.com/ci_18473542/|access-date=2021-11-08|website=Loveland Reporter-Herald|language=en-US}}</ref>
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