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Removal of trees so as to create farmland, and especially the stumps left behind, was an arduous process for European settlers. Although there were complex (and expensive) "patent machines" available, small farmers trying to remove fairly small-diameter trees was much more common. The Genesee Farmer shared this design from an Ontario County resident for one "that can be made by any farmer with the aid of a blacksmith." It relied upon incremental prying, but that farmer claimed that "I have séen two hands, on a lot that had been cleared fourteen years, pull in a day from sixty to a hundred stumps, mostly from ten to eighteen inches in diameter."
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The Genesee Farmer
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