For those who asked on the Harlequin site about the Donkey Puncher trail sign (my blog is posted there as well as on Facebook, and less-frequently on MySpace),
nope, it has nothing to do with punching poor donkeys …. This area of
Whistler where I run (Lost Lake) used to be an old logging cutblock
back in the day, and apparently Donkey Puncher is an old logging term.
When logging was first mechanized, a small steam boiler - called a
’steam donkey’ — was introduced to power the winching-up of heavy
logs mounted on a ‘donkey sled’. The operator of the steam donkey was
called the donkey puncher … and that’s one donkey puncher pictured
above, with his steam boiler.
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Thanks
for the explanation of a donkey puncher. Now I can stop feeling sorry for the donkey<gg>
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Thanks, I had no
Thanks, I had no clue.
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must have been after 1893
because I just read a story, A Wife fo Big John by Lauri Robinson that was about lumberjacks and logging in Northern Minnesota but there was no mention of a donkey puncher. It must of been before the invention of logging equipment
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