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Snowing Position of Donkey Engine 
and Rigging for Clearing a Ten Acre Tract 
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‘While this outfit is too expensive for 
small owners, it could be purchased by a 
community, or one or more such outfits 
could be operated by a county or a large 
company for clearing land. It would be 
more satisfactory than the makeshift out- 
fits usually found doing this work. 
Cost of Clearing Land With Donkey 
Engine 
The costs here given are taken from 
actual records of 18 different tracts rang- 
ing in size from 314 to 19 acres and total- 
ing 150 acres. Various conditions of soil 
from silt loam to gravel were encountered. 
The average number of stumps per acre 
varied from 14 to 56 which ranged in 
average size on the various tracts from 
19 to 52 inches at the ground. The cost 
of explosives ranged from $4.77 to $86.04 
per acre the average being $21.12. The 
total cost including labor averaged per 
acre on the various tracts from $47.40 
to $222.87, the average of all being $66.44. 
This represents the entire cost including 
burning and clearing small stuff after the 
stumps and large logs were out of the 
way. 
The whole cost of clearing if charged to 
the stumps on all the tracts would bring 
the cost of the stumps to $2.54 each. The 
