Logging Wagon at Collier State Logging Museum - Chiloquin, OR - Carriages and Coaches on Permanent Display on Waymarking.com

Located at the Collier State Park Logging Museum is a preserved logging wagon. There is an interpretive display in front of it that reads:

Art of the Wheelwright

Iron-rimmed Wood Wheels
The lifeline of early logging camps, heavy wagons were often used to haul food, tools, and people into the woods, as well as haul logs out to the mills. Such huge loads required iron-rimmed wheels-which required a master wheelwright.

This logging museum is well worth the visit and requires a good hour to view and appreciate all the displays. Wheelwrights blended wood with iron to make a wheel that was both lightweight and strong. A heated solid iron "tire" was fit onto a wheel made with a wood or iron hub, wood spokes, and curved wood rim-sections ("felloes"). Dousing the hot metal tire in water cooled it, shrank it, and secured the whole wheel into one sturdy piece.

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