REMOVING ANU TRANSPLANTING TREES. 



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Fig. 49. 



By boring an inch hole through the body of the tree, to 

 receive a large clevis-bolt, we have lifted trees alone, with 

 a system of gin-poles and tackle-blocks, which would weigh 

 the ball of earth and the tree more than one ton. The 

 hole in the tree should be filled with grafting-wax, to pre- 

 vent decay, after the tree has been planted in its desired 

 locality. By having a windlass for winding up the slack 

 rope of a set of tackles, one man can lift . any tree that it- 

 would be safe to take up. Some care should be exercised 

 that the ball is not planted deeper than the tree grew. As 

 soon as a tree is dropped in its place every hole should be 

 filled with earth; 

 and it would be 

 well to spread a 

 few inches in 

 depth of straw 

 over the roots, 

 to protect them 

 from injury dur- 

 ing very cold 

 weather. 



The accompa- 

 nying engraving 

 (Fig. 49) repre- 

 sents the appara- 

 tus which we employed in removing large trees. It con- 

 sists of a set of shears about sixteen feet long, with a wind- 

 lass attached to the single shear, around which the slack 

 rope of the tackles is wound when the machine is worked. 

 A good stiff pole or stick of timber, twelve or fourteen 

 feet long, is fastened to the tree with a large clevis and 

 chain, by boring a hole through the tree for the bolt of the 

 clevis, as near to the ground as can be. It will be difficult 

 to hitch a chain around the body of a tree without wound- 



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Apparatus for removing large trees. 



