Lee the Horselogger is on the move in Oregon

[Pat9]

Media Advisory - Information About Slow Moving Horse-Drawn Wagon on Secondary State and County Roads (Photos) - 05/10/11
Oregon State Police (OSP) and Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) are advising travelers along secondary state and county roads in Clackamas County east toward central and eastern Oregon that they may encounter a slow moving horse-drawn covered wagon during the next several weeks.

Numerous calls were received Monday, May 9, into the OSP Northern Command Center dispatch as “Lee the Horselogger” traveled northbound on Highway 99E in Marion County. The horse-drawn covered wagon legally travels at a speed of about 3 mph - nearly 10 miles a day - and displays a slow-moving vehicle emblem on the rear wagon. A pickup equipped with a special hitch assembly reportedly accompanies “Lee the Horselogger” to aid the horses and wagons up steep hills.

“Lee the Horselogger” spent Monday night north of Canby and told OSP he will be departing today about 12 noon, planning to travel primarily on county roads east of Oregon City to the Carver area. Through the remainder of the week and weekend, state highways will be the primary route into Damascus, Boring, Sandy and Government Camp. Traveling east toward the Bend area, he plans to continue east on Highway 20 toward Idaho.

Any questions regarding “Lee the Horselogger” travels should be directed to him. Contact and additional information, including photographs, about “Lee the Horselogger” is available on his website at http://www.leehorselogger.com/

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To see the original story, go to the OSP website and scroll down: http://www.flashalert.net/news.html?id=1002 - there are two pictures with the notice.

He uses a three-abreast hitch and is traveling with a stallion, geldings and mares. The website is interesting.

[Bluey]

I can’t quite imagine how that pickup is going to help the horses uphill, unless it gets behind the wagon and pushes it along.:lol:

As a kid in the mountains, when I was big enough to drive the wagon to the highway with the milk cans, I was more worried about the horse stopping the wagon on the downhills than pushing into the traces going uphill.:yes:

[Pat9]

Pushing the wagon is the only way I can see it helping going uphill - the person who wrote the press release probably doesn’t really understand what’s going to occur, and unintentionally made it sound as though the whole outfit would be towed by the truck, horses and all.

When the occasional re-enactment wagon trains have gone over the pass there, one of their concerns is keeping the wagons under control on the downslopes so that the horses don’t get pushed off their feet. Perhaps Lee has disc brakes on his modern wagon, or plans on having the truck steady the outfit going downhill. The highway is much better than it was in generations past, but there are still some steep areas.

[goneriding24]

He’s going to need that pickup for help when he gets to the reservation, right beforse Madras, OR. Even for a motorized vehicle, the down- and uphill is tough. Also, from Gov,t camp throught the mountains is going to be something else. Yep, I’ll really loves it if I’m traveling that way and get stuck behind him with my rig, on those windy two lane roads.

[Luckydonkey]

I have really had enough of this guy. He needs a reality check. The OSP would not let him head East earlier this year because he wanted to cross the mackenzie pass during some of the icy snowy weather we had, and the police told him no way could they let him block traffic crossing the pass in those conditions. One of his horses died a few months back, and the other ones are so tired from driving on concrete and pavemement all the time. He keeps hanging out in the willamette valley moving around to different parking lots, etc. I think when he first started out and he had an agenda, it worked for him- but now he has been doing it so long that around here people are starting to see him as nothing more than a homeless guy who has horses that need to have a lot of feed donated to them. I really feel bad for his stallion.

[TheresanAppfurthat]

Lucky Donkey I SO agree with you. This man (“man” implies “adult” in his case the maturity is significantly missing) or as some call him “horseman” (and in my opinion he does NOT deserve that label because make no doubt about it his horses are paying a terrible price while he follows his “dream”) is nothing more or less than a homeless bum scamming bucks of people who feel really, really sorry for his horses.

I talked with him at length and watched how he interacted with his horses when he made a stopover in Eugene Oregon. These horse are underweight (no, not “racehorse fit”) not emaciated but aren’t carrying enough groceries to do the work he is demanding of them. They clearly are exhausted from being on the road on cement most of the way. They are footsore, constantly shifting their weight in a fruitless effort to get comfortable - because IF he rests them it is usually in a parking lot where they “rest” on concrete. He ties them to his wagons extremely unsafely and if these weren’t the calmest Belgians on the planet there would have been some major wrecks the day I was there - or maybe they were just to tired to freak when their tie ropes got tangled in horse legs or wagon paraphernalia or in the garbage and crap he had lying all around. He stated some of his travel plans and a more vague, unplanned, unintelligent, mapless hapless mumbo-jumbo I never before seen or heard - space cadet doesn’t even begin to describe his “plans.”

His horses were HUNGRY. People were buying feed in the feed store where he was stopped in the parking lot and bringing the bags of the feed to him (and giving money). Those horses KNEW what was in those bags. But Log-for-Brains stacked the bags out of the way and those horses yearned toward that feed but he did NOT give them any of that food. He is a fat, dirty, slovenly so and so who spits when he talks and that talking is basically angry diatribes or downright potty mouthing. He needs to rehome those patient long-suffering Belgians and go clean up and get a fricking day job. He even talks with complete lack of feeling about the accident(s) and illness(es) his horses have had. COMPLETELY uncaring - it is all about Log-for-Brains there is no apparent caring for horses in this activity.

This is not a man. This is not a horseman. This is a loutish thug who does not deserve to be supported - his horses do. And looking and listening that day brought me to the conclusion he should not be allowed to have horses now or ever.

And no, no one pissed on my cornflakes today or any day. Like most of you here, I CANNOT stand to see horses treated this way. Following a dream my …ss-- IMO he’s just running a con and running into the ground some wonderful horses in the process.

[Chief2]

If it is this bad, then why hasn’t someone out there turned him in to the AC or the state vet? Just wondering… :no:

[clanter]

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[Scribbler]

I realize this is a zombie thread revived by spam. But whatever happened to this guy? I googled and the last accounts say he was headed to Alaska by land. There is no chance IMHO that he will get that rig across the Canadian border, with no means of financial support.

OK I see he has a Facebook page and is moving around the flatter border States like Montana. Still talking about Alaska.