134 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 fect 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 
easily and _ steadily 
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 
e the braces; iron pins 
(a hold it in place. The 
i. side guy-ropes are 
made fast to the ends 
150. ‘The tree ready to move. of this boom. The 
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 lifted by the wind- 
lasses, the guy-ropes are loosened, asneeded. The tree will pass 
obstructions, such as trees by the 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 
