Hydroulie Stump Extractor

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 137, 17 May 1892, Page 3

Hydroulie Stump Extractor

,c.,,^,,., i „:. : .-.-.-.: : t. 1 -r . ' ■: Yesterday ,w$ had, the pleasure of seeing the Hydraulic Stamp : Extractor at work - B^i>r Monokton'S' residence, where it is , temporarily, in use: before 1 being removed . tO]Mesprs Jetch and Monckton's farm, wHen a pnblic exhibition will be advertised ftfc'an early' date/ Although there are some two hundred in use in Victoria and New South ■#a!es,, tbe doctor is the first to introduce it. into. New, Zealand, and it will "siirprise us, very, much if there are not a dozen in use in this neighborhood within the next' twelve months. The lifting power ia i equial to f breaking any ordinary abip's cable, aii'd'it is pat in motion by a small daubleaction pump, which sends a r l>ncKeVof wafer iip J a pipe through a toijchh'ole'mW<ail§cwtVirOT casing^forming the hydraulic iack ; out of that' riaea-an iron cylinder carrying a wire hawser, of irav menße strength,' which again is shackled to a .heavy topshened chajn cable. •'ThVsbVer-ie^s' upon "which it stands are iron bark, shod with roughened iron shoes, . anJ.Cfbyl.ail ingenious levej? and ei-ank action, can be easily placed on or off their . /wbeelftip aboqti halfja minute., There are rjilso shafts to one leg for a . iorse: to move it about %.' vTbpre was sorne difficulty at first with ■thV,Cußtoms, it being unclassified machinery ; but we are glad to learn ihat v the ' Gommissiorier on proper repreoenfations'has given wayi and ! allowed that these machines can be admitted free-.