Someone would have to stay up all night and fire the boiler to keep it from freezing. My Dad's first job when he was about 10 years old was hauling water for his uncle's steam engine on the uncle's saw mill. He would drive the team and wagon with the water tank out into the nearby lake until the water was up to the top of the wagon rack and then fill the tank. Could you imagine trying that today? The EPA would be there in an instant.
Re going down hills with sleighs with loads of logs, my Grandfather hauled many logs for logging companies with horses and sleighs. He said they used to sand the downhill slopes and the other thing they would do is wrap a logging chain around a sleigh runner before going downhill. On really steep hills they had a steam powered winch to assist the horses with the uphill pull and a winch with a brake to control the downhill ascent of the sleigh.
If anyone is ever up north in Canada there is good exhibit of early logging in Canada in Algonquin Park and there is a guide tour of an old logging camp and hauling trail. My Great Grandfather would spend most of a winter in one of these logging camps while his wife and older children would look after the farm.
See Logging Trail link and scroll down the page for a short video.
I have also visit logging museums in Washington State where they harvested giant Douglas fir trees.
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