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12-08-2005, 01:38 AM

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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:
cineman wrote:

Tie a rope around base, soak the soil around the roots very well,
tie
other end of rope to car and drive off slowly.
Unless the hawthorn is very tall of course.
[...]

As a matter of interest, have you tried the method? I did once, with
a very small goat willow, about an inch and a half in diameter. All I
got was wheelspin.

I have too, with a Fordson Power Major, and all *I* got was wheelspin.

You'll have to refer to the google archive to find my post. I did this
with a rope that had some elasticity, a car with 200 BHP and a 1/2 tonne
of Lleyandii tree stump a few years back. Wheelspin would have been
nicer than trying to outrun a tree that had better acdeleration than me.