K Hand Power Stump Puller

There's not a big group of collectors for things like this, most end up in small museums run by Rural Historical Societies or were sold for scrap metal during World Wars One and Two. I can't remeber the last time I saw one go at auction, but I doubt it would go for over $100.00.

There was a very similar stump puller that sold at aumann auctions for $966 in 2017.

Having used heavy grubber-style pullers for forty years including last year (2021) to pull a ten thousand pound abandoned sailboat hull across one thousand feet of mud-sand lake-bottom, I have been on the lookout for one of these for some time.

Two weeks ago while pulling a van out of a mud hole in a field here, the winch cable snapped and tension ripped the frame and handle into my tibia (shin bone) leaving me with a compound fracture.that pulverized the bone and left me creating a splint with shoelaces; rolled up cardboard; and my own shirt as the bandage and restrictor to compress.the wound to stop from bleeding out.

As it is, I made it to hospital and now face a two month recuperation at home.

Which is why I write.

If you still have your Fitzpatrick "K" tree puller of the style used to pull trees from their roots from the ground at New York City's Central Park, I would very much like to buy it.

My promise:

To fully restore it for use. And to put it to good use.