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To unload, the compression pulleys are drawn apart, one to each end of the rack, and attached to the slings, the draft rope draws the compression pulleys together until they lock. The slings are pulled around the hay and the load carried into the mow like a big bundle."

Tim Sollman, Clayton, Wl

ANOTHER LOG HAULER LOCATED IN WISCONSIN

The November 2001 issue of your magazine had an article about the Phoenix log hauler.

We wanted to let you and your readers know about another one still in operation. The Wabeno Phoenix Log Hauler is owned, operated and maintained by the town of Wabeno (Wis.) Park Board. Our Phoenix, used by the Jones Lumber Co. of Wabeno until 1929, is now operated at our antique engine steam-up show in mid-July.

New flues were installed in May 1999; a state inspection is required of the boiler every year. Also, we have seen pictures of another operable Phoenix in Osage, Iowa.

Willard Ehlinger, 4117 Quinlan, R.R. 1, Box 213, Wabeno, Wl 54566; (715)473-2553.  

Editor's note: Dale Ziegler of Odin, MN, also wrote with detailed instructions on how to use a hay sling, shared by his father, Claude A. Ziegler, who farmed with horses up into the 1940s. The elder Mr. Ziegler, 89, and his wife, Sophie, 86, still live on the family farm in Rapidan Township, Blue Earth County, MN.


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