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Excerpt from Popular Mechanics Shop Notes for 1921: Easy Ways to Do Hard Things; Of Daily Use to Every Mechanic; Table of Contents, Pages 3511-3523 When a chimney or smokestack becomes so fouled with soot that its efficiency is impaired, it can be easily swept out with a small fir or spruce tree. If the chimney has a clean-out door at the bottom, a rope can be lowered from the top -until the end can be drawn through the Opening; the tree is tied to the middle of the rope and pulled up and down until the flue has been cleaned. In case there is no Open ing at the bottom, a stone, or other weight heavy enough to drag the tree to the bot tom, can be tied to the tree. A good, strong rope should always be used, and the tree securely fastened so as to pre vent its becoming caught in the chimney. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.