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Felling Trees Electrically.--"Burn 'em down with hot wires," is the advice of H. W. Bousman, General Electric engineer, when it comes to felling trees or pruning jobs about your property. Mr. Bousman recently felled a large tree by the "hot-wire" method in his back yard at lO4 Collins Street, Scotia. And the project was so successful that he plans to eliminate another undesirable tree on his property, by the same method. "It was a simple task," he says. "I had a large black locust tree which needed to be eliminated in order to improve my landscaping, but it was too near the house to be chopped down--not to mention the danger involved for such an inexperienced lumberjack. "Neighbors had told me that professionals had rather high charges to fell trees of the same size on their property, so I rigged up a contraption to burn them down with hot wires. And it worked wonderfully." Mr. Bousman felled the tree in sections, first burning off the upper branches, then parts of the Io-inch trunk. Nichrome wire, which can be made "red hot" and still maintain its mechanical strength while being pulled through the timber, was attached in a semi-circle to the branches. A transformer was then connec

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Author

R.H.O.

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0016-0032)

Published

1946

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)