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Show BURNER TO DESTROY STUMPS Made From Steel of Old Abandoned Food Cooker and Joint of Pipe Cost $1.25. The rather peculiar device shown tn the Illustration herewith was made by a Vernon county, Missouri, farmer for destroying stumps, and we are in- r -'-'.'; 'Ti i i -i t ' i ( ' -i . . t VP ' A Practical Stump Burner. formed that it proved much mora than expected, so far as getting rid of the old stumps were concerned, says Homestead. The cost to maka this stump burner was $1.25 and it was made as follows: The steel jacket from an old abandoned food cooker was used for the lower part, and the square part for the top waa bought from a local tinner, it and tha Joint of pipe costing $1.25. They ara both a little heavier than ordinary sheet Iron. In operation, the device Is placed over the stump and a fira built around same with anything that may be handy for fuel. In some casea chips were used; In others, old rails, and In still others, pieces were split from the stumps themselves. Not only did the burner consume the entire stump In a short time, but in many cases the roots were burned out far down In the ground. A similar burner might be constructed from many things that are every year thrown in the scrap heap, and if the necessary material could not be found in tha scrap heap, any tinner would build one for a small sum and your stumps would be burning while you were doing do-ing something else. The boys would simply love to operate one of these burners at least until the novelty wore off, and possibly the promise of a small sum of money when the last stump was burned out would prolong the novelty for a sufficient time to do the business. |