FELLING AND CONVERSION. 



Fig. 122. 



is only in cases of small stumps and superficial rooting tbnt 

 digging can be dispensed with. Also where machines are used, 

 they either tear the whole stump from the roots, or remove it 

 piecemeal. 



Wherever machines such as the forest devil are used for 

 uprooting stumps, all the side-roots should be cut-off close to 



the stump, except one large 

 side - root which is left 

 longer than the others, and 

 serves as a lever for the 

 attachment of the imple- 

 ment, as shown in fig. 122. 



Preference should always 



be given to the simplest of 

 the implements which have been already described, and although 

 they only partially replace manual labour, yet they afford a 

 simple application of considerable power. Experience has shown 



Fi(i 12:3. 



(.Vflor i;.,i,i,e.) 



that the forest-devil is the best of the heavier implements. 

 The Hawkeye machine is more powerful, and would be used in 

 preference were its cost not so high. 



Objection has been made to the use of the forest-devil, that it 

 requires too many hands to work it, that it is difficult to fix the 



