REMOVIXG ANU TRANSPLANTING TREES. 



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Fig. 50. 



skillful manner ; and yet only eight trees in every one hun- 

 dred failed to grow the next season. If such an apparatus 

 as Figure 50 had been employed, and if a circle had been 

 cut around every tree the previous spring, the cost of trans- 

 planting would have been much less per tree ; and not one 

 tree would have died. 



A Tree Machine on Wheels. If a person were to have 

 twenty or thirty trees to 

 remove, the expense of 

 making a frame, to be 

 placed on the wheels of 

 a common wagon, would 

 cost but a few dollars. 

 Two pieces of scantling, 

 say three by six inches 

 square, for sills, could be 

 placed, edge up, on the 

 bolsters of a wagon; then 

 two windlasses should be 

 fitted to the upper side of 

 the sills, as shown by Fig. 

 50, around which chains 

 may wind. The windlass- 

 es should be made of 

 some hard and tough tim- 

 ber, about six 'inches in di- 

 ameter, with two one and 

 a half inch holes bored at right angles through each wind- 

 lass. When a tree is to be lifted, remove the windlasses 

 and one sill from the wagon, and place the vehicle in posi- 

 tion with the reach or coupling of the wagon close to the 

 body of the tree. Then lay the sill and windlasses in their 

 places, and lift the tree clear from the ground, and drive 

 carefully to the place for transplanting. An inch auger- 



Removing trees with a frozen ball of earth. 



