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Title

A Cheap Stump Machine

Description

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."

Creator

Unknown

Publisher

The Genesee Farmer

Date

1851-06

Contributor

Cooper, Ken

Source

The Genesee Farmer 12.6 (June 1851): 141

Courtesy of Internet Archive

Format

jpeg, 136 KB

Type

Still image