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Show TOWN ? HELP5S- TREES GIVEN EXPERT CARE Body of Public-Spirited Los Angeles Men Recognizes the Importance Impor-tance of the Work. Itecognlz'ng thnt the nvernge citizen, citi-zen, or average laboring num. knows little or nothing about moving trees, a group of Los Angeles men have organized or-ganized a company which has for Its puipoM the transplanting of trees, nnd the removal of trees and stumps about the city. The tiee and stump company Is u decidedly mobile organization. Its men tiavel In automobiles, carrying their tools nnd tree-moving machinery machin-ery In ti idlers behind the cars. Thus equipped they are prepared to go quickly to any locution nhout the city wherever their services are required The mechanical appliances of tree transplanting, nnd tree und stump re-movnl, re-movnl, are few nnd simple. There Is nn abundance of block-nnd-tnckle equipment for the handling of large, heavy trees, and a compact windlass of special design Is used for pulling trees out by the roots. When a tree Is merely to he removed, re-moved, n strewn, of wnter played from i hose Is used to dislodge the earth from the roots. If the tree hns to he moved any great distance, heavy wire netting Is wrapped about the roots to hold the earth Intact. This Is then re-enforced with rope, nnd the tree Is Jncked onto roller dollies for transportation. At Its new location the wire netting Is removed, nnd blocks nnd tnckle nre used to hoist It Into position. John Edwin Hogg In Popular Mechanics Mngazlne. |