Steam donkeys such as the Tacoma Wide Face Yarder were a vital part of logging equipment in Oregon’s 19th century forests. Their name came from secondary “donkey engines” used on sailing ships to load cargo, raise large sails, or power pumps, and many cable-logging terms also came from merchant ships because of similar rigging. Steam donkeys had a boiler, a water tank or fuel tank mounted on the rear of the sled, a donkey house to shelter the crew, and a powered winch wound with hemp rope in the early days and steel cable later. A cable was carried to a downed log and attached, and the engineer powered the steam engine so the machine could drag the log toward itself. The log was then moved by animal, tractor, or truck to a landing dock for transfer to a mill by river, road, or railway spur. The machine’s skids or sleds were usually made of giant logs to help move it from one setting to the next, and by attaching one cable to a tree or stump it could pull itself to the next timbering location. This machine was called a wide face because its drum was proportionally wider than those of later machines, and wide face donkeys were used for jobs such as dragging logs along the ground, loading operations, and high lead logging, in which logs were yarded with one or both ends in the air. It was manufactured by the Puget Sound Iron and Steel Works, probably in the early 1900s, and after being abandoned in the woods when the Reiger family finished logging their land about 1952, it was rescued and restored from 1979 to 1981.