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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a donkey engine having a very long cable on a drum, used for skidding logs out of the bush.

See: roader

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1943

. . . some genius [about 1900] invented the road donkey or roader. This contraption was a steam engine with a vertical boiler, the engine being geared to a set of big drums on which could be wound a mile or more of one-inch cable, thereby pulling the logs along the now heavier and better-built skid roads in long strings dogged together.

1953

[Caption] Here is shown a road donkey making up a turn for the locie.