I own 48 acres in the NC mountains. It is all tall trees today, but in 1930 it was a farm and I knew a lady who was picking corn right where my house is in 1930, she was a little mountain girl and she picked the corn with her brothers and her dad. They pulled an ox drawn sled up the mountain to put the corn it. My land is half way flat on the tops. An ox drawn sled with hickory runners.
I often wonder how those hillbillies cleared those stumps back in 1910. Did they dig 'em out and pull them out with a mule, or what? My land is mostly steep, steep but just to clear the 4 acres that are half way flat, they would have had to clear hundreds of stumps.
Often they would hook a block and tackle onto either an ox or a team of mules to pull them out.
