20 mule team

john in la · Jul 4, 2018

A group of people out west made a exact replica of the borax 20 mule team wagons.
It was in the 4th of July parade in Washington DC last year. (2017)
That is what made me think of it today.

Does anyone know any more about it?
Do they have a schedule of other appearances?
Has anyone seen it in person?

jeffcat · Jul 4, 2018

Go on U'tube and type in 20 mule team. You will have close to twenty hours of viewing. So much information youre head might explode. Shows them building them, every nut and bolt. Also them playing with the wagons. Monsters!!!
20 mule team

carvel minne farmer · Jul 4, 2018

john THANK YOU for posting this, WOW can you just imagine that rig coming across the desert back in the day. each wagon weighs 10 ton! great video.

carvel minne farmer · Jul 4, 2018

john THANK YOU for posting this, WOW can you just imagine that rig coming across the desert back in the day. each wagon weighs 10 ton! great video.

bumblebee · Jul 4, 2018

A group of guys ran a 20 mule team from Death Valley to eastern South Dakota in early 60's. I would guess that to be about 2000 miles.

caterpillar guy · Jul 4, 2018

The wagons might weight the 10 tone but loaded they were more like 60,000 each then the water tank wagon. Engles coach I think it is in MT that did the rebuild of the wagons.
For some more big wagon hitches look at Neil Dimmock in Canada I think Alberta with his big hitch. He travels all over the Place both CA and US. My wife watches some of his things on that facebook thing. The whole entourage would cost a good penny just to haul it around.

John Deere D · Jul 4, 2018

John in La.... THANK YOU for posting this:

Bob.....

BarnyardEngineering · Jul 5, 2018

Wonder how many mules died trying to make turns with those things over the years. The videos where they show them trying to go around corners, and the mules toward the back trying to jump over the main tow cable.

spacechem · Jul 6, 2018

Here's a link to the guy building the wagons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq41lsw_GLY&list=PL3Qu3GIvx73EgVa8dYcN_e9ps2BDMO9j3

IaLeo · Jul 6, 2018

I was awed by the wagon and tank wagon I saw in Death Valley last winter! I don't know how old it was but it made the CA trip worthwhile. No wonder it did not compete with RR and closer mines. Leo

DoubleO7 · Jul 6, 2018

(quoted from post at 22:56:44 07/04/18) The wagons might weight the 10 tone but loaded they were more like 60,000 each then the water tank wagon. Engles coach I think it is in MT that did the rebuild of the wagons.
For some more big wagon hitches look at Neil Dimmock in Canada I think Alberta with his big hitch. He travels all over the Place both CA and US. My wife watches some of his things on that facebook thing. The whole entourage would cost a good penny just to haul it around.

From:https://www.borax.com/rose-bowl/
When loaded the rig with two ore wagons and water wagon weighed 36.5 tons. The trip involved 165 miles.

This wiki page is a good read too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-mule_team

72supr · Jul 6, 2018

(quoted from post at 18:30:59 07/04/18) A group of guys ran a 20 mule team from Death Valley to eastern South Dakota in early 60's. I would guess that to be about 2000 miles.

is name was Jean Dehaven from Wessington S Dakota.A book was written about it but the movie never got made.The next year he went to Montreal I think . They let us out of school to watch them go past .I was in the second grade at Lane S Dakota. I remember it well.

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