. Commercial poultry raising; a thoroughly practical and complete reference work for the amateur, fancier or general farmer, especially adapted to the commercial poultryman. Poultry. PIPE FITTINGS AND TOOLS 147 vices of a skilled plumber. On the contrary, any one who is handy with tools will find pipe-fitting a comparatively simple task. The most laborious part of the work is digging the trenches, for these should be excavated deep enough for the pipes to lie below frost line—thirty inches or thereabouts. A pipe vise, pipe cutter, set of dies for cutting threads, and a couple of Stillson wrenc
. Commercial poultry raising; a thoroughly practical and complete reference work for the amateur, fancier or general farmer, especially adapted to the commercial poultryman. Poultry. PIPE FITTINGS AND TOOLS 147 vices of a skilled plumber. On the contrary, any one who is handy with tools will find pipe-fitting a comparatively simple task. The most laborious part of the work is digging the trenches, for these should be excavated deep enough for the pipes to lie below frost line—thirty inches or thereabouts. A pipe vise, pipe cutter, set of dies for cutting threads, and a couple of Stillson wrenches are the essential tools. Pipe.—It is better to use galvanized pipe throughout the sys- tem, although black iron pipe will answer the purpose. In laying 1—r ||*va.*» t'yjy' i—K g';S' 3tuOs £'Om on cenrers ; \U>xjqa/iy t>oarf''\ Concrete floor § 1=. (Kansas Experiment Station) Fig. 103.—Floor plan of a well-arranged poultry house. out the piping underground, it is well to make provision for ex- tending the system at some future time. That is—put in tee connections here and there, at points where you may want to run off pipe lines to new buildings. These tees can be shut off by plugs made for the purpose, and they will also act as clean-outs should any trouble occur. If these tee connections are not in- stalled, and later one wishes to tap into the main feed pipe, it will be very difficult to do so without taking up a great deal of the system. The reason for this is obvious: The pipe and fittings are all threaded right-handed, and unless unions are installed,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roberts, Howard Armstrong, 1885-. Philadelphia, D. McKay
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