A large heavy roller used for crushing bushes and small trees prior to clearing.
clearance techniques changed from ringbarking and burning to the use of scrub rollers pulled by steam engines
Example sentencesExamples
- I was one of the first to engage a scrub roller to tear an ugly hole of 300 acres on an area allotted to me.
- My grandfather and father cleared the scrub with axes and then pulled a scrub roller behind a team of eight to ten horses.
- The cost and time of vegetation clearance were reduced considerably by the invention of the scrub roller.
- Islanders were by this time beginning to use scrub rollers more freely.
- At first, the scrub rollers were big gum-tree logs.