These were clumsy ox-carts, with wheels made of blocks, sawed or chopped off from the end of a large round log; a big hole was then bored, chiseled, or burned through its center, enabling it to turn on a rude wooden axle.
Soap or tallow was sometimes used as a lubricant.

This was the only wheeled conveyance in California as late as 1840.

Other Indians did the woodwork in buildings, made fences, etc.

Some were carvers, and there are not a few specimens of their work that will bear comparison with the work of far more pretentious artisans.
Many of them became' blacksmiths and learned to work well in iron.

In the Coronel Collection in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce are many specimens of the ironwork of the San Fernando neophytes.