Tomahawk Leader July 3, 1908 INVENTS STUMP PULLER F. A. Barbeau works out idea for machine which promises to be the best of them all! F. A. Barbeau of Tomahawk is the inventor of a stump puller which promises to be the best machine designed for the clearing of land. Andrew Oelhafen is furnishing financial backing required for the manufacture required of the stump puller. One machine already has been built and is in use on the Oelhafen farm. Other machines are now under construction at the Oelhafen Saw Mill. " If we can sell enough machines we will build a factory to employ 100 or more men, " said Mr. Oelhafen in speaking of the new invention. "It looks like a good thing, the best of its kind. The trials given the first machine built certainly show up well." The stump puller, it is claimed, will pull the biggest white pine stumps with only two men to operate it. It works rapidly and requires only 2 men to work the levers and one horse to move the machine from stump to stump. No long test has been given the puller and it is not yet known how much land can be gone over with it in a day. The price of the machine will only be $75.00 and if it is successful as it promises to be it will prove a great thing for the owners of cutover land. One of the completed pullers will be exhibited at the Fourth of July Parade tomorrow. Mr. Barleau, the inventor, is a laboring man who came here from Rhinelander several years ago. His home is on Wisconsin Avenue and Fifth Street. Dawn [email protected]