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MANUAL OF GARDENING 



three-by-eight inches and twenty feet long. The braces are 

 three-by-five inches and ten feet long, and upright three-by-nine 

 inches and three feet high; these are bolted to the hind axle 

 and main frame. The front axle has a set of blocks bolted 

 together and of sufficient height to support the front end of the 

 frame. Into the top timbers, three-by-six inches, hollows are 

 cut at the proper distances to receive the ends of two locust 

 rollers. A windlass or winch is put at each end of the frame, 



by which trees can 

 '>'''^^-t'fei^<?Ki] easily and steadily 



f^'Uf-.t . *. be lifted and lowered, 



the large double 

 ropes passing over 

 the rollers to the 

 windlasses. A locust 

 boom is put across 

 the machine under 

 the frame and above 

 the braces; iron pins 

 hold it in place. The 

 side guy-ropes are 

 made fast to the ends 



150. The tree ready to move. ^f ^j^jg l^^^^^j^^^ rpj^^ 



other guy-ropes are made fast to the front and rear parts of the 

 machine. Four rope loops are made fast inside of the frame, and 

 are so placed that by passing a rope around the trunk of the tree 

 and through the loops two or three times, a rope ring is made 

 around the tree that will keep the trunk in the middle of the frame 

 and not allow it to hit either the edges or the rollers — a very 

 necessary safeguard. As the tree is slowly hfted by the wind- 

 lasses, the guy-ropes are loosened, as needed. The tree will pass 

 obstructions, such as trees by th^e roadside, but in doing so it is 

 better to lean the tree backward. When the tree has arrived at 

 its new place, the two timbers are placed along the opposite edges 



