The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-11-19
STUMP PULLING.
How the work is accomplished.

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get rid of the stumrs.' Especially per
tinent is the question in this locality.
where pine forests once reared their tow
ering branches high in air, the founda.
tons of which, having been burned over
| and hardened by fire, remain to this day
deeply implanted in the soil and as i'm
pregnable to decay or fire as anything
one can well conceive of, for the moisture
Of the earth keeps them thoroughly and
continually wet-in which condition pine
timber will last great many years. But
go to work and dig the stump out, get
the dirt all off from it and leave it high
and dry from the ground and it will soon
dry VI, sufficiently to burn. The farmer
who has tried this, however, knows to
his cost that it, is no easy task. Take a
pine stump that goes deep in the ground
and man must dig and chop a whole
day to get it loose and then after his
team has hauled it out, which is no
slight job, he must fill up the cellar like
excavation which he made in getting the
stump loose Now all this work is labor
Gus and tedious, and it is quite plain there
must be an easier way of accomplishing
it-for accomplished the work must be,
the ground occupied by the said stump
being Of too much worth to leave there
from year to year in idleness, besides the
stump is an outrageous bother when one
is ploughing Granted that the work
must be done, can machinery be employed
to do it more effectively and more cheap
ly than hand labor? Yes, it can
Through the courtesy of Mr.. E. J.
Smalley we had the pleasure, few days
ago, Of seeing stump machine operate
which we consider a success. The machine
has been manufactured and sold here by
Mr. s. for some time, and we believe
gives good satisfaction 1t consists of a
frame work built of heavy hard wood
timber, the top, or horizontal timbers
being about twelve feet above the ground
In those timbers Is located Il large screw
about ten feet long and six inches in di-
ameter the thread of which is one inch,
and on this screw heavy nut is placed
and through one side of the nut the end
OF a long lever or sweep passes. Well.
now. the frame is moved to. that big
pan OF horses could not draw out The
dirt is dug away a little and chain, the
links Of which are made of iuch and a
half iro :: Is passed under large root
The screw is now run down and attached
to the chain, ani then the team l.
hitched to enc end Of The SWEEP and start
on their ci.cssiJous journey, The chain
tightens up and then i,nr a minute the
stump seems muciunlesS, bur not So
almost im2crceptibiy at frst it Ioo>en<
It's hold On Mother Earth where for ages
it has firmly stood. and then slowly ap.
pears hinge root near your feet One
side of the stump is now "o,ened. and :,
chain Is passed arennl it body and last
cned to the one WHICH soas under The
root The stump now goes up bodily.
Every root, no matter how far it extends,
is pulled up and soon the jagged thing
hangs suspended in the air, and the dirt
is all left right where it belongs Old
logs are piled under the stump TO block
it up from the ground and there it Is left
to dry for burning You vii. observe
the advantages Of this course: The
work is quickly and easily done there is
no breaking, no chance for accident !;
when the stump is out there is no dirt to
shovel back and your old logs, "a well as
the stump, are piled up Cor barring anu
finally It costs much less than to dig them
out by hand. The stump we saw taken
out occupied about half an hour, inciud-
ing the moving OF the machine
We viii not undertake to show why
every stump in the county should be
pulled up, as it is wei known that the
ground thus occupied if sown to wheat
would in three years pay for the pulling
to say nothing of the trouble it would
save in plouging around ''the critter
To those who can spare the time, We
would say, go and see the stump pulie,
in operation.