BDN reports on Lombard log hauler restored by UMaine students, faculty
The Bangor Daily News published an article on the steam-powered log hauler that the Maine Forest and Logging Museum at Leonard’s Mills in Bradley acquired in 1984. Herbert Crosby, a retired University of Maine engineering professor, said getting the Lombard log hauler running again took decades of work and thousands of volunteer hours. Crosby, his colleagues and about 150 volunteers, including 80 UMaine students, worked on the machine until it was up and running in April 2014, according to the article. Most of the parts used to get it running were either made at UMaine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center or by hand using sand casts and molten metal, the article states. The machine originally came from near Ross Lake, north of Allagash Lake, according to the museum. “When we got it, it was not pretty,” Crosby said. “It had no wheels in the front, no cab and the boiler had to be replaced. It was a basket case and proved to be way worse than it looked.”