Re: [Cz-L] Changes to the picasa web album " Cz. Jewish cemetery. Work done by hired workers, summer of 2009 from Miriam Taylor on 2009-06-27 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:51:49 -0400
To: jerome schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>, HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>, cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>, 'Czernowitz Genealogy and History' <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Reply-to: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Jerome,

The method you suggest can be used on a few stumps, but we are talking about
12 hectares, or 120 000 sq. meter. Assume that on the average there is one
sapling per every 50 sq. meter, this is a low estimate, still it follows
that the total number of saplings in the cemetery is 2400.

Mimi

On 6/27/09 1:30 PM, "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca> wrote:

> One simple way to do this job would be to bore a hole, or holes in
> each of those cut saplings (a large wood auger would do); pour
> gasoline in the hole and let it soak into the wood, and then light it.
> It basically smolders for days but doesn't flame. Eventually it should
> allow you to easily dig what's left apart with a crowbar to ground
> level. I've used t his method on very large stumps and it work quite
> well. Should be easy with something the size of the saplings shown in
> the picture. Of course it's not a very 'green' method, but it does
> seem to work.
> Best,
> jerome
>
>
>-snip-
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