When timber was king in the early 1900s, the tremendous size and weight of the fallen trees required special transportation. One of the unique vehicles was a horse-drawn cart with wheels 9 to 11 feet high that were especially effective in the flat, dry inland forests of Northern California around Weed. John Webb, owner of Redding Iron Works, modified a wagon that was unveiled at the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair. His slip-tongue High Wheel cart had wheels weighing between 1,200 and [...]
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