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Title: The planter's guide; : or, A practical essay on the best method of giving immediate effect to wood, by the removal of large trees and underwood; being an attempt to place the art, and that of general arboriculture, on fixed and phytological principles; interspersed with observations on general planting, and the improvement of real landscape. Originally intended for the climate of Scotland.
Year: 1832 (1830s)
Authors: Steuart, Henry, Sir, 1759-1836
Subjects: Forests and forestry Tree planting
Publisher: New York, : G. Thorburn and sons
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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it is prudent to halt the horses, in order to examine, if everything be well ordered and secure ; especially if the equili-brium between root and top have been accurately obtained.If the root be found too light, it is proper to make it heavier,by loosening the cords of the bracers or rack-pins, and allow-ing it to drop down. If it be found too heavy (which is thelesser evil of the two,) the easiest method of counteractingit is, by sending up a couple of balancemen to the top ; who,by shifting their position as circumstances may require, serveas movable makeweights, and maintain the equipoise. Ifthese things be truly adjusted, the tree will proceed in thetransportation, with perfect safety to all its parts, the polebeautifully playing on the axle and crossbar, hke the beamof a well-constructed weighing machine, which many timesvibrates, before settling in the equilibrium. In order that the reader may form a competent idea ofthe machine itself, as used here, and of the transportation of
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Wii \ •■■ til 3 the tree, on \\\c balancing principle, a view of the machinein motion will be found in the engraving, as taken on the spotby an ingenious artist. The tree delineated is a beech ofabout eight-and-twenty feet high, with a stout stem, a beau-tiful top, and with roots more than twelve feet long ; so thatthe whole is calculated to form a load of considerable weight.The mode of maintaining the balance, of bundling up theroots, of compressing and preserving the branches; as alsothe various functions of the steersman, the balancemen, andtheir assistants, may all probably be better apprehended inthis view of their united efforts, than by any verbal descrip-tion. The reader, however, may compare the two, as theywill be found greatly to aid each other. It is easy to apprehend, that, with a machine so constructed,the person stationed at the end of the pole, possesses thesame complete power over the direction of it, as the steersmanover that of a boat; but with this disadvant

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