. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . ght of which is brought as near thedriving-wheel as practicable. The weight of the tongue, and of the driver, seat isslightly forward of the driving-wheel center, on the hounds of the tongue, aids in balancingthe machine. A very part of the harvesting in the large grain-fields of the Pacific coast isnow performed with the wide-cut lunder. .sometimes drawn bv a long string of animals, butpreferab
. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . ght of which is brought as near thedriving-wheel as practicable. The weight of the tongue, and of the driver, seat isslightly forward of the driving-wheel center, on the hounds of the tongue, aids in balancingthe machine. A very part of the harvesting in the large grain-fields of the Pacific coast isnow performed with the wide-cut lunder. .sometimes drawn bv a long string of animals, butpreferably by a trar^ljon engine. The header cuts tlu^ straw near tlie top, leaving the stubblestanding high, and taking off little more than the grain-ear.^. This renders the duty of theconveyer meehanism so light as to admit of taking a swath 15 or 20 It. wide, aiul even ) the jilatform-conveyer the grain-ears are elevated between canvas belts to a point overthe driving-wlieel, and there shot into a long supplemental conveyer swung well out fromthe sid(! of the machine to deliver them into large tender-wagons traveling alongside toreceive loads and haul to the Fig. 50.—Woods harvester. HARVESTING-MACHINES, GRAIN. 433
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