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the means of crowbars they can be wound up and the tree 

 lifted. I abandoned the^ plan, however, and put a windlass or 

 winch at each end of the frame, and now I can easily and 

 steadily lift and lower the tree, the large doube 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 



Fig. 23. 



hold it in place. The side guy-ropes are made fast to the 

 ends 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 pass- 

 ing a rope around the trunk of the tree and through these 

 loops tw T o 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 neces- 



