Rational Horse Shoeing and Wagon Making
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with rules, tables, recipes, etc., useful to
manufactures, blacksmiths, machinists,
well-drillers, engineers, liverymen,
horse-shoers, farmers, wagon-makers,
mechanics, amateurs and all others who have
occasion to perform the work for which this
book is primarily intended.
When a lawyer or a minister makes his maiden speech he will
always be in a great hurry on account of his excitement. The
sentences are cut shorter, broken, and the words are
sometimes only half pronounced. After a few years' practice he
will be more self-possessed and the speech will be changed
from unintelligible phrases to logical oratory. When the
carpenter's apprentice first begins to use the saw, he will act
the same way-be in a great hurry-he will turn the saw at the
speed of a scroll saw, but only a few inches of stroke; after
some instructions and a few year's practice the saw will be run
up and down steady and with strokes the whole length of the
blade. When" the blacksmith's apprentice begins to use the
hammer he acts very much the same way. He will press his
elbows against his ribs; lift the hammer only a few inches from
the anvil and peck away at the speed of a trip hammer. This
will, in most cases, be different in a few years. He will drop the
and regular time, every blow as good as a dozen of his first ones. Some smiths have the foolish habit of beating on
the anvil empty with the hammer, they will strike a few blows on the iron, then a couple of blind beats on the anvil,
and so on. This habit has been imported from Europe, free of duty, and that must be the reason why so many
blacksmiths enjoy this luxury.