Steam Donkey - Other Uses

Other Uses

Steam donkeys were also found to be useful for powering other machines such as pile drivers, slide-back loaders (also known as "slide-jammers", cranes which were used to load logs onto railroad cars and which moved along the flat-bed rail cars that were to be loaded), and cherry-pickers (a sled-mounted crane used for loading, onto railroad cars, logs that a grading crew had cut down).

An auxiliary engine on a sailing craft (which does propel the vessel) is still sometimes informally known as "the donk".