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Hansen Wheel & Wagon
Restores High Wheels
Doug Hansen, owner and president of Hansen Wheel & Wagon Shop, Letcher, has been in business since 1978. Only recently, however, was he asked to restore a set of High Wheels. In 1875, that name was given to a set of two ten-foot diameter wagon wheels. Such wheels were first manufactured by wheelwright Silas Overpack in Manistee, Michigan, for the purpose of being part of a vehicle for skidding (transporting) logs from the woods to a railroad landing. In addition to the wheels, an axle, cart pole, chains, winch, and metal fasteners complete the log transporting vehicle.
Rogan Coombs, of Coombs Tree Farms, Inc., Fortuna, California, and owner of the wheels, found them in a forest near Fortuna.
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