2011 - Volume #35, Issue #6, Page #41
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"Sapling Strangler" Uses Short Length Of Chain Welded To A Pipe
Two years ago FARM SHOW featured an old idea called a “sapling strangler” with a short length of chain welded to a pipe. A reader, the late Mac Kroenlein, Nokomis, Ill., adapted the idea but made a nifty variation.
Mac cut a hole in the side of a piece of heavy pipe so that when you insert a chain through the length of the pipe, it comes out the other side and hooks into the hole, after running it behind the sapling or brush.
When you pull on the chain, the pipe digs into the tree, grabbing it in a vise-like action that will not let go no matter how small or slippery whatever you’re pulling. (C.F. Marley, Nokomis, Ill.)
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