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GENERAL ADVICE 



and to some adjoining post or tree for the pur- 

 pose of pulling the tree over. A good quantity 

 of bagging must be put around the tree under 

 the rope to prevent injury, and care should be 

 taken that the pulling of the rope does not split 

 off or break a limb. A 

 team is hitched to the end 

 of the draft rope, and slowly 

 driven in the proper direction 

 to pull the tree over. If 

 the tree does not readily tip 

 over, dig under and cut off 

 any fast root. While it is 

 tipped over, work out more 

 of the soil with the sticks. 

 Now pass a large 

 rope, double, 

 around a few 

 large roots close 

 to the tree, leav- 

 ing the ends of 

 the rope turned 



up by the trunk to be used in lifting the tree 

 at the proper time. Tip the tree in the op- 

 posite direction and put another large rope 

 around the large roots close to the trunk; remove 

 more soil and see that no roots are fast to the 

 ground. Four guy -ropes attached to the upper 

 parts of the tree, as shown in the cut (Fig. 54), 

 should be put on properly and used to prevent 



Moving a large tree. 



