Handbook Of Clearing And Grubbing Methods And Cost Primary Source Edition

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Excerpt from Handbook of Clearing and Grubbing Methods and Cost More than half the tillable area of the United States was originally forest. East of the Mississippi there was comparatively little arable land not covered with trees 200 years ago. Of the acres of farm land now under cultivation, it is a conservative estimate that 50 per cent had to be cleared and stumped before it could be cropped. Assuming, then, that acres of farm land in America have been cleared and grubbed at an average cost of only $10 an acre, there has been expended for this work. The staggering size of this sum would naturally lead a person to expect to find many books on the subject of clearing and grubbing, but the present book is the first and only one of its kind. By state and federal departments of government there have been published a number of valuable bulletins on the subject, but in none of these is there to be found even a general review of all the different methods of clearing trees and removing stumps. Beside collecting into this book all the valuable information contained in bulletins, I have also compiled all that I could find in periodical literature. In addition I have abstracted from catalogs of manufacturers a considerable amount of excellent material. I have published several original articles in Engineer ing and Contracting, the contents of which will be found; herein. As an engineering contractor I have had charge of clearing and grubbing operations under some of the most difficult conditions. I have built stump pullers capable of exerting a strain of lbs. I have blasted out fir stumps 12 ft. In diameter above the ground level, and have done clearing and stumping under such severe conditions that the cost was $400 an acre after the standing timber had been cut and logged ofl'. These facts are mentioned to give the reader at least some measure of my competence to write on the subject and to compile with judgment what others have written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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