Loading an 8 Wheel Wagon

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Loading an 8 Wheel Log Wagon

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Chronicle Story about the Lindsey Wagon

Belize Mahogany Loggers

Eyles Letter of 1936

Eyles Order of 1936

Request for Quote by Grimes

Financial Information

Instructions for Hub Caps on Wagons

Wagon Company Payroll - 1910

W.H. Burton Hours and Tasks -- May 1913

Payroll 1914

Wagon Company Payroll - 1932

Wagon Company Salaries

Wagons Shipped April 1922

Wagons Shipped October 1922

Wagons Shipped 1929

Rise and Fall

Lindsey Wagon History

Graysonia Memories

Wagon Pictures

Busy Body and Shays

Lindsey Wagon Co. 1940 Brochure

Wagon/Skidder Testimonials Index

Lindsey Wagon - 1964

Loading a Log Wagon

Loading a Skidder

Wagon Patent Info

Lindsey Lumber Company

San Augustine Lbr. Co. & Lindsey Wagon

Logging Index

The following is a rough depiction of how logs were loaded onto a Lindsey 8 Wheel Log Wagon. Certainly, this re-enactment doesn't come close to the hustle and bustle of the logging areas, nor is this the only way it was done. Loading depended on the equipment available as well as the logs and the way the lumberjacks felt that day.

The 8 Wheel Log Wagon was designed to be drawn by oxen. There could be anywhere from 4 to 12 yoke of oxen pulling one wagon.

The wagon would be driven so that it was parallel to the stack of logs to be loaded. Then poles would be placed between the sets of wheels; a chain would be attached to the wagon opposite the logs; then the chain would be looped under the log and back to the opposite side of the wagon; finally, the chain would be attached to a yoke (the oxen that drew the wagon would be unhitched and used for this), and the log would be rolled onto the wagon.

The process would be repeated until the wagon couldn't hold any more. The oxen would be re-hitched to the wagon and off they would go to the rail line or other gathering point for the logs.

These pictures were taken in October 1990 at the Sawmill Days in Fulton, Alabama.

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