Logging Sleigh Train at the Rhinelander Museum      At first glance a steam powered logging sleigh looks like a train going through the woods, until you notice that there are no wheels involved, and no tracks, just grooves in the ice.       Preparing for these large log haulers did involve more than a simple logging trail, it had to be rather straight and level, and in our travels at Woodland Management Service we often come across these old trails hidden in the forest, still in good shape except where they cross rivers, or where the trees have grown over the former well packed grades. 09/04/2016

Rhinelander Museum; The Blacksmith Shop, an Essential of any Early Logging Camp   Today we have the next segment in our Rhinelander Museum series.  The blacksmith shop was an essential component of any logging camp, with tools to be made and tools to be repaired.  Without these essential tools the trees could not be cut, the sleds could not be made and repaired and the horses could not be shod.           Bob Crane  Woodland Management Service  715-204-9663  1925 Elk St  Stevens Point, WI 54481  http://woodlandmanagementservice.yolasite.com/ 09/04/2016

Big Wheels and Big Trees at the Rhinelander Logging Museum         Most of the early logging was done during the winter for many reasons.  Transportation was the main reason, getting these logs to the river highways was significantly easier to do over frozen ground, and getting the logs down the rivers was much easier during the spring flooding season.         Logging in the winter also allowed the loggers to spend the summers scratching out farms from the dense forest which would hopefully allow their familys to eat while they spend the winter in logging camp.       Although the forests were mostly cut during the late 1800's, they have grown back in all but the areas where farmers were successful in beating back the encroaching trees that quickly re-populate any area that is not being ... 07/16/2014