Archive image from page 252 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 HORSE-FORKS. 183 the mow. Either of these methods is very simple and very effectual. Horse-forks.—Another valuable, and time as well as lahour saving equipment of modern days. UiMil'l/— Fig. 80.—Horse-FORK. is the horse-fork, or elevator. Of these implements there is an endless variety, but one principle is common to all of them, viz., the employment of horse-power by means of rojses and pulleys. In Fig. 80 is shovn one of the most
Archive image from page 252 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 HORSE-FORKS. 183 the mow. Either of these methods is very simple and very effectual. Horse-forks.—Another valuable, and time as well as lahour saving equipment of modern days. UiMil'l/— Fig. 80.—Horse-FORK. is the horse-fork, or elevator. Of these implements there is an endless variety, but one principle is common to all of them, viz., the employment of horse-power by means of rojses and pulleys. In Fig. 80 is shovn one of the most effective of these tools, and also the method by which it is emploj'ed inside a building. Two parallel and stout spars of wood, some 6 or 8 inches apart, and leaving a clear space between them all along, are sus- pended from and well braeed to the ridge-tree of the barn. The fork is suspended from a carriage which nins on four wheels, a ; one end of the rojse is fast, and the other runs over pulleys, B, passing do\vn to the ground, where it runs under a third pulley and is attached to the horse. Tlie fork with its load is easily sent
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