’Nuff said

Some really nice pictures from Furnace Creek in Death Valley Nat’l Park, where it can get cold, too.

Wow, what weird wagon wheels

On first spotting the wheels on this old log hauler, they look like there’s dried mud packed between the hubs and rims. When you look closely, though, you see that these odd wheels are made of an iron hub and iron rim with pieces of wood jammed into the space between them.

Since this wagon was used to haul logs out of a forest somewhere, by getting rid of spokes there’s no chance of limbs and other debris getting jammed into the open space between spokes and breaking them.

That’s my theory, at least. But it sure adds to the weight of the wagon! I hope they had some really big mules to lug these things around.