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Show METHOD OF PULLING TREES Good Team of Horses and Three-Quar-ter Inch Rope and Tackle Will Do Job Easily. v, When we transplant trees taken from our nursery we use the method . shown in the sketch for taking n "? large shade trees. A three-fourths inch rope, eight or ten feet long, is , -doubled, the ends tied together and looped around with an extra hilch, writes F. E. Dougan of Pawnee, Okla., in the Popular Mechanics. The tree . trunk should be well protected from - ' Pulling Trees. the chafing of the rope with burlap wrapped around it. The next requl-site requl-site is a roller. We use a hollow log about eighteen inches in diametei over which an ordinary block and tackle is placed as shown. A good team of horses will easily pull a tree three or four inches in diameter, di-ameter, with all its roots. |