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Disclosed is a wagon or cart specially designed for removing logs－particularly those of great weight and diameter－from the site at which the logs were cut, to a truck or other vehicle used for transporting the logs to a remote destination. The log wagon includes a box-like, rectangular receptacle, o

Disclosed is a wagon or cart specially designed for removing logs－particularly those of great weight and diameter－from the site at which the logs were cut, to a truck or other vehicle used for transporting the logs to a remote destination. The log wagon includes a box-like, rectangular receptacle, open at one end, to facilitate rolling of logs into and out of the wagon. At the open end, ground wheels are rotatably mounted upon bell cranks or equivalent angular links or levers, pivoted at one end to the receptacle or log cradle. The other ends are adapted to be separably connected to a handle. When the handle is rocked in one direction, it lowers the log cradle, locating a curved bottom pan thereof against the ground so that logs can be conveniently rolled into or out of the cradle. When rocked in the other direction, the handle causes the lever to travel over dead center, elevating the open end of the cradle. The handle can then be transferred to the other end of the wagon, for transporting the logs to a nearby truck or stacking area.

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A log wagon comprising: (a) a box-like log cradle having an open end through which a log may be placed in and removed from the cradle; (b) ground wheels mounted at the ends of the cradle; and (c) means for lowering the open end of the cradle in respect to the wheels at said open end to permit a log

A log wagon comprising: (a) a box-like log cradle having an open end through which a log may be placed in and removed from the cradle; (b) ground wheels mounted at the ends of the cradle; and (c) means for lowering the open end of the cradle in respect to the wheels at said open end to permit a log to be rolled into and out of the cradle through the open end thereof, said means comprising bell cranks pivotally connected at one end to the open end of the cradle, the wheels at said open end being mounted on the bell cranks intermediate the ends of the bell cranks, and lever means attachable to the other ends of the bell cranks and movable between opposite extreme positions in one of which it rocks the bell cranks an angular distance about the axis of the crank-mounted wheels sufficient to move the pivotal connections at said one end of the cranks up and over said axis across dead center to elevate the open end of the cradle, and in the other of which it rocks the cranks back across dead center to lower the cradle at its open end, the lever means comprising an elongated handle removably attachable to and extending outwardly from the bell cranks, and means in the form of pins removably insertable in the cradle following the rocking of said one end of the cranks over dead center, in the path of return movement thereof back across dead center, for locking each bell crank against reverse movement from the position to which it is rocked when the cradle is being elevated.