Lombard Log Hauler

[Dustin4185]

A fellow game warden in Maine posted a video of this machine on a Facebook group. This isn’t his video, but it is the same machine. It is crazy how far the logging industry has come.

 

[MustangMike]

That is cool. Do you know when it was built?

 

[Dustin4185]

That is cool. Do you know when it was built?

No idea. I found this on YouTube.

 

[Basher]

There is a whole series of vids on this rebuild of one in Maine,

 

[Basher]

They ran one of these up here in the Cobiquid mountains to take logs out to the Bay of Fundy at Portipique River docks.

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

Over the summer I read a book on he early days of mechanized logging in the Adirondacks. The Lombard tractor was mentioned in that book, but the Linn Tractor came along and stole it's thunder. In that book I discovered that an old logger fellow that lives about ten miles from me has a fully functional Linn and another one he is still trying to scrounge up or make some parts for to get running again. So cool to learn about these old workhorses that were the very first step away from actual workhorses! Those loggers of old truly were amazingly hard working suns a guns!

Here is a pic of a Linn on display at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake NY. It was hard to get a good shot of the whole thing, but it has tracks in the rear and skis up front for steering.

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

Here is a vid of a beautifully restored Linn equipped wheels up front instead of skis. They we're offered in both configurations

Linns also saw duty as plow trucks in the very snowy Tug Hill region of northern NY. Pretty sure the term "snow fighters" was coined back in those days. They had to bust open roads using V-plows fighting with snow that was as deep as the top of the cab!

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

The snowplowing in this old vid was in upstate NY, most likely Tug Hill.

 

[Normzilla]

A fellow game warden in Maine posted a video of this machine on a Facebook group. This isn’t his video, but it is the same machine. It is crazy how far the logging industry has come.

Way cool

 

[Basher]

The only working steam tractor I ever worked around was a Case like these, it had a big spotlight on it just in front of the smokestack, I will never forget the sound of it climbing the hill to our farm and the squeal of the steel wheels on the gravel road.

 

[Normzilla]

The only working steam tractor I ever worked around was a Case like these, it had a big spotlight on it just in front of the smokestack, I will never forget the sound of it climbing the hill to our farm and the squeal of the steel wheels on the gravel road.

I would love to see in person. Love to own one.