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.
in measuring the wheel. The wheel is too light in itself to resist
the pressure of the gauge. The smith tries to go it light and if
there is not the same pressure in measuring the tire there was
in measuring the wheel, it will not give the same results; and
when the tire is put on it is either too tight or too loose. I
worked for many years on a tool to hold the tire steady in
order to overcome this trouble. The only device that I have
ever seen for this purpose before is the anvil close up to the
forge, one side of the tire on the forge, the other on the anvil.
This arrangement would crowd the smith, roast his back and
expose him to ridicule, but it will not help to ruin the tire.
The tool I invented is a tire holder made of cast iron. It consists
of a standard or frame with a shank in to fit in the square hole
in the anvil; in the standard is a slot hole from the bottom up.
On the back of the standard are cogs on both sides of the slot
hole. Through this goes a clutch hub with cogs in to correspond
with the cogs in the standard. On the outside of the standard
to fit over the clutch hub. This lever is tapered so that it
will fit different thicknesses, while the cogs and eccentric
lever will adjust it to different widths. This device is so
cheap that any smith can afford to have it.
Next time you buy a quart of whisky sit down and figure
out which will do you more good, my tire holder or the
whisky. Figure 7 is an illustration of my holder. This tool is
better than an advertisement in your local paper, of
which the following story will convince you. A blacksmith
in a prohibition county in a northern Iowa town got into
the habit of going over to a Minnesota town for a keg of
beer every month. On one of his periodical visits to this
place he saw a crowd of men standing around a road
grader in the road. As he approached he found that the
grader had a serious break-down and the men were just
discussing the possibilities of getting the grader repaired
in the village shops. One said no smith could do it,
another thought they could if they only had tools. "I
know a man," said one in the party, "that can if any man
can, and he has tools I am sure. I was over to his shop
never saw a tool like that before." "Well," said one, "that has nothing to do with this case. "Yes it has," said the road
boss, "my father always used to say, 'A mechanic is known by the tools he uses,' and when a smith has good tools in
one line, he has them in another, and I shall give this man a chance."
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