running on tracks, there was the Lombard Steam Log Hauler. This wacky steam-locomotive-like contraption used tank-style tracks instead of railroad tracks to get around, freeing it up to go wherever it ...

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – Log haulers in B.C. may not have to comply with the new federal Hours-of-Service rules slated to take effect in January, 2007. The forest industry has worked with government and ...

A steam-powered Lombard log-hauler helped revolutionize logging in Maine. Credit: Courtesy of Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands This story was originally published in January 2024. Maine ingenuity has ...

ONALASKA, Lewis County — Long before dawn, Randy Turner drives his 1988 Peterbuilt truck up a road that winds through thickets of second-growth fir to a dark expanse of ridge-top clearcuts. There, ...

BRADLEY, Maine — Eli King climbed down off of a steam-powered log hauler Saturday with a grin on his face. “It was fun, but it’s not very fast,” the 11-year-old Ellsworth resident said of the machine ...

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. – There’s nothing backwoods about today’s log hauling business. New technology has been widely embraced by the forestry sector of the trucking industry and it has changed the ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) - A Green Bay company is helping to keep Wisconsin history alive. Mechanical Technologies Inc. is working to repair a more than century-old piece of logging history. It's full steam ...

Mainly clear with frost possible by daybreak Monday. Mild this week with breezy conditions on Tuesday. Wausau police say they seized an electric motorcycle this week after a juvenile rider repeatedly ...