He sold his patent to Holt manufacturing/Holt Caterpillar Company who merged with Best and in 1925 formed the Caterpillar Tractor Co. On a side note the land was first farmed and cleared by the Dinsmoor family, one of the sons was Charles Dinsmoor. I figure the inclined plane of the tines will pull the rake down in, add pressure for traction to the front of the machine, and help roll the roots up out of the ground instead of just breaking them into pieces in the ground. I angled the tines to try to get them to engage into the ground on there own. Mostly just what I have scrounged from the dumpster at work. Then I will disc it and plant clover or some cover crop on it for a year and try to plow it. Then this rake will hopefully break up the roots so they can rot or pull them out of the ground into windrows where I can pile them and burn them. I will be leveling it and filling in the stump holes. I plan on farming this land when I am done and don’t want to lose any top soil. Then I burn the top and cut the tree for firewood. That pulls the tree down and gets the stump out all at once. I have been pulling on the big trees with the winch cable while I dig around them with the ripping claw I built for the backhoe. Then I pulled all the dead fall and trash into a pile and burned it. First I brush hogged what I could between the trees. A lot of it over 3’ (1 meter) in diameter.
They have grown back up with white pine oak and maple. I bought a few acres from my neighbor that was last cleared about 100 years ago. I am by no means an expert I am making every thing up as I go.
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