. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. available for ordinary farm-work, such as thrashing, driving, barn-work, & cost of the two engines, with their apparatus, is£1066. The number of hands employed is tlie sameas at the large anchor and engine ; but as a skilledlabourer is necessary where only an unskilledlabourer is needed in the latter case, tlie coatper day is 2s. more ; working the large engine andanchor, including the cartage of water and oil, iaestimated at per day ; the two engines at has been most successful in carrying off
. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. available for ordinary farm-work, such as thrashing, driving, barn-work, & cost of the two engines, with their apparatus, is£1066. The number of hands employed is tlie sameas at the large anchor and engine ; but as a skilledlabourer is necessary where only an unskilledlabourer is needed in the latter case, tlie coatper day is 2s. more ; working the large engine andanchor, including the cartage of water and oil, iaestimated at per day ; the two engines at has been most successful in carrying off theprizes at all the competitions of steam-ploughs,having received in this way, since 1856, nearly£3200, besides gold medals. Howards system consists in a stationary enginedriving a windlass, having two winding drums, withdirect and reverse action, placed in front of it, roundwhich is coiled about IGOO yards of wire-rope. Bya simple lever movement, the man can droj) thewinding drums out of gear in an instant, a conti-iv-ance which enables him to attend to the i)roper. Fig. 13.—Howards General Plan. coiling of the rope, and also to arrest, in case of i rope running out too fast, and trailing on accident, the plough in a moment, without stopping •■ ^> the engine. The engine is usually placed at the corner of the plot to be ploughed, the rope is carried round the field on rope-porters, and fixed at the corners by light anchors. A snatch-block placed in front of the windlass prevents the slack- theground. The plan of working given clearly illus-trates the arrangement (fig. 13). The plough, as willbe seen from fig. 14, is composed of two strong ironframes balanced upon four wheels, and crossing eachother at their inner ends, thereby decreasing thelength of the plough, and, as a matter of course, the
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