Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency (1914)
Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928 · Chicago, The M. C. Clark Publishing Co. · leaf 614
the time nee- STUMP PULLERS 609 essary to hitch to stumps buried just under the surface, fre-quently with rotted heart, together with the cost of the puller, hireof horses and men, made it way beyond the power of competingwith dynamite. Where there are a number of large stumps or trees to act… … Fig. 291. machine must be anchored by means of large butts driven inthe ground. Stumps are pulled with a direct pull, the cable running fromthe stump to the machine, or with a double pull, the cable run-ning through a block fastened to the stump and being attachedto another dead man. A long cable…
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