Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1912 — DEVICE FOR PULLING TREES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEVICE FOR PULLING TREES

Apparatus Shown In Illustration Found Entirely Satisfactory In Removing Brush. For removing bushes and small trees’ the device Illustrated herewith has proved very satisfactory. It consists of a five or six-foot stick of round, tough wood such as hickory, and, say, three Inches in diameter, with a single-tree attached at one end

and a trace chain at the other. The chain Is passed around the sapling and hooked to the pole, aaya the Orange Judd Farmer. While a. horse pulls tiie rootß are cut with an ax on the opposite side, and soon the tree comes out with a rush.

Tree Pulling Apparatus.