Donalds "giant" strainer (Tree Puller)
Among the equipment in the Schramm's Cottage Barn is a Donald "Giant Strainer". Mr. John Morley has sent us an advertising leaflet about the machine.
"We make an extra heavy machine for jobs where a very heavy pull is required, such as pulling out stumps, pulling over trees, bridge building, log hauling, up-ending hefty poles, an such-like work. The chief advantages in the use of Donalds Giant Strainer over other methods, is that it is not only very strong and powerful, but that it is light and handy to shift and operate. It's action is automatic and positive, and a pull once taken is securely held, licked, in fact. A child can work it, which leaves you free to attend to the object being hauled. Results are surprisingly effective, and many appreciative opinions have been passed on to us. It is a long way ahead of the ordinary cumbersome and expensive tree-puller."
1988 12 DTHS Newsletter
The Donald Wire Strainer.
A machine commanding universal attention nowadays, is this king of wire strainers - the Donald Pocket Strainer - simpler, quicker, and better than any other. This handy little machine, weighing in all only 3lb, takes from a quarter to half a minute to join broken wires or re-strain slack wires, and it is a pleasure to watch the case with which it does its work, and also its neatness. It does away with the need for unkeying at the post, the grips are simply affixed to the wires in the fence, and the lever worked backwards and forwards, the grips working automatically themselves, and holding the wire as long as desired. It draws in all the slack in your wire, no matter how much there may be, without stopping. The knot is neat, and will never pull out under any pressure. Tin's strainer is equally good at the post, or for' mending a broken wire, work ing it exactly the same way. The machine is for sale complete at the cheap price of 16/, and the only difficulty is to supply the large orders coming to hand from every quarter. The Australian Dropper Company have taken up the sole agency ' for N.S.W., and their advertisement appearing in other pages of this issue contains all further information.1907 'The Donald Wire Strainer.', Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (NSW : 1896 - 1938), 11 January, p. 17. , viewed 05 Aug 2018, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article99833533
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