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Farm Mechanics

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Acetylene gas 129

Air pressure pump 107

Anvil 33

Apple-picking bag 216

ladder 215

Asparagus knife 205

Auger, ship 26

Auger-bit 24, 25

Automatic hog feeder 219

Axles, wagon 52

Babbitting boxings 73

Barn trucks 226

Belt punch 211

work 146

Bench and vise 34

Bench for iron work 35

for woodworking 16

Bipod 206

Bits, extension boring 26

Bit, twist-drill, for wood-boring 25

Blacksmith hammers 61

shop 31

Block and tackle 77

Bobsleighs 188

Boiler, steam 90

Bolster spring 186

stake 187

Bolt cutter 45

Bolts, carriage and machine 56

emergency 53

home-made 52

plow and sickle bar 56

Boxings, babbitting 73

Brace, wagon-box 58

Bramble hook 20

Brass valves 236

Breeding crate for hogs 203

Brick trowel 209

Bridge auger 26

Bucket yoke 75

Buck rake 165

Building bracket 202

Bull nose-chain 233

treadmill 81

Cable hay stacker 176

California hay ricker 176

Calipers 43

Caliper rule 14

Canning outfit 229

Carpenter’s bench 17

trestle 17

Cart, two-wheel 191

Centrifugal pumps 105

Chain, logging 50

Chisels and gouges 28

Circular saw, filing 69

jointing 68

setting 68

Clearing land by tractor 146

Clevises, plow 58

Clod crusher 155

Clothes line reel box, concrete 228

Clothes line tightener 230

Cold-chisel 37

Colt-breaking sulkey 192

Compasses 18

Concrete center alley for hog house 209

farm scale base and pit 196

hog wallow 209

wall mold 210

Conveniences, miscellaneous farm 194

Conveyances, farm 179

Corn crib, double 201

two-story 194

Corn cultivator 142

planter 158

shock horse 208

Cotter pin tool 44

Coulter clamp 54

Countersink 41

Cow stanchion 234

Crop machinery, special 161

Crops, kind of, to irrigate 118

Crowbars 46

Cultivator, combination 143

corn 142

Cutting nippers 46

Derrick fork 168

Dies and taps 55

Diggers, potato 205

Disk harrow 152

plow 137

Dog churn 79

power 80

Draw-filing 62

Drawing-knife 22

Drill, grain 160

power post 38

Drill-press 39

electric 40

Driven machines 100

Dumbwaiter 229

Economy of plowing by tractor 146

Electricity on the farm 121, 127

Electric lighting 123

Electric power plant 122

towel 231

Elevating machinery 133

Elevator, grain 134

Emery grinders 31

Engine and truck, portable 94

Engine, gasoline 91

kerosene 92

steam 90

Eveners for three- and four-horse teams 139

Extension boring bits 26

Farm conveniences 194

conveyances 179

office 194

shop and implement house 9

shop work 50

tractor 97

waterworks 89, 100

Feed crusher 131

Feeding racks 217

Fence-making tools 205, 206

Fence pliers 207

File handle 36

Files and rasps 36

Filing hand saw 56

roll 63

Flail 75

Fore-plane 27

Forge 32

Forges, portable 32

Forging iron and steel 59

Fruit picking 212

ladders 215

tray 213

Fruit-thinning nippers 214

Gambrel whiffletree 173

Garage 10

Garden weeder 54

Gas, acetylene 129

Gasoline engine 91

house lightning 128

Gate, sliding field 205

Gatepost with copper mailbox 227

Gauge, double-marking 22

Generating mechanical power 74

Goat stall 230

Grain drill 160

elevator 134

elevator, portable 135

Grass hook 163

Grindstone 28

Hacksaw 45

Hammers, blacksmith 61

machinist’s 42

Hand axe 23

Hand saw 19, 65

filing 66

jointing 65

setting 65

using 67

Handspike 24

Hardy 43

Harness punch 211

Harrow cart 154

disk 152

sled 141

spike-tooth 141

Harvesting by tractor 146

Hay carrier carriage 172

Hay crop, handling 163

Hay derricks, Idaho 171

Western 169

Hayford, double harpoon 169

grapple 170

hitch 173

hood 197

Hayrake, revolving 163

Hay ricker, California 176

Hay rope pulleys 174

Hay skids 167

Hay sling 167

Hay stacker, cable 176

Haystack knife 168

Hay-tedder 165

Hay-track roof extension 197

Hoe, how to sharpen 70

wheel 162

Hoes and weeders 204

Hog catching hook 232

Hog feeder, automatic 219

trough 221

trough, reinforced 222

wallow, concrete 209

Hoist, oldest farm 133

Hoists 78

Home repair work, profitable 50

Horse clippers 231

Horse feeding rack 218

Horsepower 86

House plumbing 234

Husking-pin 208

Hydraulic ram 95

Idaho hay derricks 171

Implement shed 10

shed and work shop 12

Iron, forging 59

Irons for neckyoke and whiffletree 51

Iron roller 157

Iron working tools 42

Irrigation 112

by pumping 112

overhead spray 116

Jointer, carpenter’s 27

Jointer plows 144

Jointing hand saw 65

Kerosene engine 92

Keyhole saw 20

Knife, asparagus 205

corn cutting 205

haystack 168

Knots 212

Lag screw 57

Land float 156

Level, carpenter’s 24

iron stock 25

Lighting, gasoline 128

Linchpin farm wagons 185

Link, cold-shut 43

plow 58

Loading chute for hogs 235

Logging chain 50

Machines, driven 100

Machinist’s hammers 42

vise 47

Manure carriers 233

Marline spike 212

Measuring mechanical work 14

Mechanical power, generating 74

Mechanics of plowing 138

Melting ladle 73

Monkey-wrench 19

Mule pump 84

Nail hammers 21

Nail set 37

Office, farm 194

Oilstone 15

Overhead spray irrigation 116

Oxen 181

Paint brushes 212

Pea guard 168

Picking fruit 212

Pig-pen, sanitary 210

Pincers 44

Pipe cutter 48

Pipe-fitting tools 46

Pipe vise 47

wrench 48

Plastering trowel 209

Pliers 18

Plow, heavy-breaking 224

riding 140

walking 138

Plowing by tractor 145

importance of 137

mechanics of 138

Plows, jointer 144

Scotch 143

Plumb-bob and plumb-line 206

Plumbing, house 234

Pod-bit 25

Portable farm engine 94

Post-hole diggers 204

Poultry feeding trough 222

Power conveyor 121

Power, generating mechanical 75

Power post drill 38

Power transmission 120

Pulverizers 155

Pump, air pressure 107

centrifugal 105

mule 84

jack 109

jacks and speed jacks 111

rotary 103

suction 101

Punches 37

Quantity of water to use in irrigation 118

Racks, feeding 217

sheep feeding 219

Rafter grapple 173

Rasp 35

Rasps and files 36

Ratchet-brace 40

Refrigeration 123

Reservoir for supplying water to farm buildings 120

Revolving hayrake 163

Riding plow 140

Ripsaw 21

Rivets 53

Rivet set 54

Road drag, split-log 220

steel 225

Road work 146

Roller 156

Roll filing 63

Roof pitches 200

truss 199

Root pulper 130

Rotary pumps 103

Round barn, economy of 196

Rule of six, eight and ten 199

Sand bands 187

caps 188

Sanitary pig-pen 210

Saw, hack 45

Scotch plows 143

Screwdriver 23

ratchet 24

Seed house trucks 226

Septic tank 235

Set-screws 64

Shave horse 18

Shears 217

Sheep feeding rack 219

Sheepshank 212

Ship auger 26

Shoeing horses 71

knife 34

tool box 34

Shop, garage and implement shed 10

Shop tools 14

Slaughter house 198

Sliding field gate 205

Snips, sheet metal 25

Soil auger 204

tools 202

Soil, working the 137

Speed indicator 201

jacks 111

Split-log road drag 220

Spud 205

Stable helps 232

Stall for milch goats 232

Steam boiler and engine 90

Steel, forging 59

road drag 225

square 22

tools, making 60

Stepladder 216

Stock for dies 55

Stone-boat 179

Stump puller 131

Suction pumps 101

Sulkey, colt-breaking 192

S wrenches 44

Tapeline 15

Taper reamer 41

tap 56

Taps and dies 55

Tempering steel tools 60

Tongs 43

Tool box for field use 72

handy 72

Tool rack, blacksmith 34

Tools for fence-making 205

for woodworking 19

for working iron 42

pipe-fitting 46

soil 202

Tractor economy 146

farm 97

transmission gear 98

used in plowing 145

uses for, on farm 146

Tram points 40

Travoy 183

Treadmill, bull 81

Tree pruners 216

Trowel, brick 209

plastering 209

Trucks, barn 226

Try-square 22

Twist-drills 25, 41

U bolt in cement 57

Uses of electricity on farm 126

Valves, brass 236

Vise 38

Wagon-box irons 57

Wagon brakes 186

seat spring 187

Walking plow 138

Water-power 88

Water storage 100

Waterworks, farm 100

Well sweep 76

Wheelbarrow 180

Wheel hoe 162

Winches 79

Windmills 83

Wire splice 52

splicer 44

stretcher 77

Wooden clamp 18

roller 157

Wood-saw frames 129

Woodworking bench 16

tools 19

Working the soil 137

Wrecking bar 24

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