We imagine loggers as burly men in calk boots, wool shirts and pants trimmed nearly to their boot tops to keep them from snagging on the brush and leftover bramble of their work. We don’t think of ...

FRITZ: I DON’T KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU OWKN THIS, BUT A GUY FROM THIS TOWN NAMED JOHN THGHOU ERBE INVENTED THE STEAM DONKEY. IMPRESSED? YOU SHOULD BE, BECAUSE THIS INVENTION REVOLUTIONIZED LOGGING IN ...

Big Willy, a renovated steam donkey, comes to life at the historic steam-powered lumber mill Sept. 19-20. After slumbering for decades, Big Willy, the 110-year-old steam “donkey” at west county’s ...

Hundreds of North State school children did battle last week with a 12,000-pound hissing, clacking, fire eating piece of ancient machinery — and of course they lost. But since it was only a tug-of-war ...

Two of the oldest operating steam-powered locomotives, both used for logging on the North Coast will be in operation for Dolbeer Donkey Days, taking place Saturday and Sunday at Fort Humboldt State ...

A Shaver logging crew, circa 1900, with a “donkey” engine, which was a steam engine used to power a winch pulled logs after they were cut in a forest. Central Sierra Historical Society Fresno Bee ...