LOGGING UP.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 213, 2 June 1908, Page 3

LOGGING UP.

A POWERFUL MACHINE. ; OBJECT LESSON ON CARRINGtTON . - RUN. , - . _ An invitation was given by Mr. W. Hi . Booth, of Carrington Run, last week (says our travelling correspondent)' for farmers and others to witness some of his land being cleared of stumps by a log hauler. Boing in the vicinity, I went, expecting to finda large gathering of,farmers. . But no; thero seemed to be as many ladies as g'entle.meii, I don't think there wero thirty,' and several .were not farmors. However, .it was! well. _ worth seeing.. The stumps, chiefly matai alid totara, wero pulled out with the greatest ease. In some cases a double purchase had to be used. None were too big'; out they canie.\ A good many acres can be stumped without shifting the hauler, "as the wire cable is many chains in length. Ibelieve some three or four acres aro being cleared in a day/ From the work, it is doing on,. Carrington, it seems to. me that in, .many districts; • where the. service of . a log hauler can bo had, a very large' amount of logging up. can'be done in an expeditious manner; Logs and stumps could be gathered up and piled in immenso heaps and burned, as it is wonderful with what ease the hauler drags big logs ". over the ground, 'Whether hilly or flat. In a district like .Carterton, which ,has_ been heavily bushed in the past, and,in .which so many paddocks are still, full, of stumps, it seemed to me strange that, so few farmers went' to see this speedy meansi whereby they could clear their land.