122 FARM DEVELOPMENT 



Since loggers have successfully adapted steam engines 

 to drawing logs through the woods, invention has been 

 directed to the use of steam power for pulling stumps. 

 The general plan is to use an engine with sufficient 

 power to pull stumps or trees, with a long cable. A 

 horse or team is used to carry quickly the outer end of 

 the cable from the dislodged stump to the one next to 

 be removed. 



Recently devised steam stump-pulling machinery 

 promises to reduce the cost of removing stumps. These 



machines are too 

 large to be afforded by 

 the individual farmer. 

 They may be owned by 

 a group of co-operat- 

 ing farmers, or by per- 



Figure 47. In the lower figure is shown a SOUS who ODCratC them 

 sectional view of the windlass or capstan stump 



puller anchored to the stump A, and pulling the f nr Viirp Tn <?nmf 

 stump B. direct. The upper figure shows the use nc ' * 



of a single block in doubling the power in pull- lotirl rl^ol^To 1100 

 ing the stump B, and utilizing two anchors, trtlU 



devices to clear a por- 



tion of each farm offered for sale. In the settlement of 

 a new region the land dealer who thus sells partially 

 cleared farms can give employment to new settlers, 

 who in return for part of their wages hire the machine 

 to clear more of their lands. By using only sufficient 

 dynamite to jar the larger stumps loose from the earth, 

 so they may be brought to the burning pile with less 

 adhering soil, the stumps are easily pulled and drawn 

 by the cables to a pile near the engine. Sometimes an 

 acre of stumps are thus placed in one pile at a single 

 setting of the engine. The drum which winds up the 

 cables is also used to draw the engine to its new station. 

 To accomplish this, the cable is attached to stumps in 

 the area to be next cleared and as the drum winds it up, 

 the engine, now made free of its guy cables, travels on 

 skids to its new location. 



