. Blakelee's industrial cyclopedia, a simple practical guide ... A ready reference and reservoir of useful information. More than two hundred illustrations. or thewhole platform. The runner poles should be peeled or made smooth with drawshave on under side and the top flattened with an ax. If the front ends of the 378 MACHINERY FOR LEVELING LAND. runners have a little natural crook, all the better; but the crook should not ex-tend far up. The point of draught should be from the seat of the load, andthere is no use in having the runners extend much above that point. MACHINERY FOR LEV
. Blakelee's industrial cyclopedia, a simple practical guide ... A ready reference and reservoir of useful information. More than two hundred illustrations. or thewhole platform. The runner poles should be peeled or made smooth with drawshave on under side and the top flattened with an ax. If the front ends of the 378 MACHINERY FOR LEVELING LAND. runners have a little natural crook, all the better; but the crook should not ex-tend far up. The point of draught should be from the seat of the load, andthere is no use in having the runners extend much above that point. MACHINERY FOR LEVELING LAND. Tlie Best Road —But little expense is required to make aroad leveler that will do more w^ork in a given time upon the public highwaythan fifty men with shovels, excepting where it is necessary to make should be kept in every neighborhood. A good one may be made asfollows : Take two planks twelve or fourteen inches wide and two inches thick ; sawone end of each, beveling about two inches ; /. <?., so that one edge will beshorter than the opposite. This is to make the top flare out when the planks areput A GOOD LEVELER FOR PUBLIC HIGHWAYS. One of these planks should be eight feet long, and the other two inchesshorter. Put them together in V shape, the shortest edge down, and frame ina cross beam of four by four scantling, a little above the center, up and down,and about two feet from the ends, so as to spread them eight feet apart. The cross beam should be framed in with shoulders, and the tenons allowedto run through six or eight inches, so that key ])ins may be put in on the out-sides. When all is fitted, l)olt a saw mill plate on to the inside of each wing, so thatthe back edge of the saw will come even with the lower edge of the plank. Thepoint or narrow end of the scraper should be secured by iron clasps, as a gooddeal of strain comes ui)on this part. The scraper is drawn open end forward,by staples or clevises attached near
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