. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . the brace is a board which is first let intothe scantling, and then the other boards simply nailed on. The objectionto this gate is that the brace is used as a tie; which, however, may benearly obviated where light materials are employed, by using plenty ofpood wrought nails in connecting it with the gate. Such a gate as thisneed not cost more than a dollar, and is less expensive than a set of best gate for common farm uses is one constructed by Dr. D. A. Robinson of Union Springs,N. Y., made u
. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . the brace is a board which is first let intothe scantling, and then the other boards simply nailed on. The objectionto this gate is that the brace is used as a tie; which, however, may benearly obviated where light materials are employed, by using plenty ofpood wrought nails in connecting it with the gate. Such a gate as thisneed not cost more than a dollar, and is less expensive than a set of best gate for common farm uses is one constructed by Dr. D. A. Robinson of Union Springs,N. Y., made up of a combina-tion of various parts which heliad met with in use, (fig. 98.)It may be made of any light,tough and durable wood, but i^^»J^#fiw^^.^J•:^•-^v-^^-^-----^----- answers a good purpose when Fig. 98-HoBiNSONs Farm Gate, (not patented.) of pine, with the U|)rightorcross-bars of white oak. The upper horizontal bar is 11 feet long, 3inches wide horizontally, and 5 inches deep at the hinge, and 2^ at thelatch. Its mortises are only two-thirds through, to shut out rain, and. ^c:^—- ©c:^--- f OF RURAL AFFAIRS. 281 5-8lhs bj 3 inches—except of the heel-piece it is an inch and heel-piece is 3 by 5 inches, and the four lower bars are boards 1 b)^5 inches. The cross-bars, tlie brace, and the two pieces forming the head-piece are 1 by 3 inches. They are secured at each crossing by wroughtor annealed nails. The head-piece consists merely of two boards, nailedon each side of the horizontal boards. All the stuff forming the frameof the gate proper being 3 inches wide, may be sawed with little wastefrom the log; and the top bar by sawing alternately, for the taper. Thegate is 4 feet high. An important advantage is the protection of ever} mortise, and of thehinge and latch, from the weather. The hinge is made by driving aniron rod, at least three-fourths of an inch in diameter, into the top of thepost, (fig. 99,) which turns in a hole seven-eighths of an inc
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