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.
the beam this time. When holes are drilled, then put a bolt
through the hole of the foot of beam and landside; now place
the plow on the landside and measure I4 inches from the floor
up to the beam. In this position mark the front hole of the foot
of the beam. If the beam has been sprung up you will now
have remedied that. So much about a new landside. On the
other side, if the old landside is not too much worn to be used,
then repair as follows: Take a piece of rs-inch thick flat iron the
width of the landside about ten inches long. Cut one end off
diagonally, this end to be flattened down. Why should this end
be cut diagonally? This piece of iron is to be placed on the inner
side of the landside and as far back as to cover the hole that
holds the plate. Now, if this iron is cut square off, and left a
little too thick on that end, it will cut into the landside and
weaken it; but if cut diagonally and drawn out thin it will not
weaken, nor can it break when cut in this manner. To be sure
of a good strong weld, upset over the weld. I hold that this is
There are only a few blacksmiths recognizing this fact. Most of the smiths will simply take a piece of iron about half an
inch square and weld it on top of the point. This is the quickest way, but it is also the poorest way, but they cannot
very well do it in any other way, for if you have no shin upsetter to dress and shape the shoulder for the plate, then it
is quite a job to repair any other way. There are three reasons why a landside cannot be repaired with a patch on top.
of the point: I, The shin or shoulder in an old landside is worn down sometimes to almost nothing, and the only way
to get stock enough to make a good shoulder is to put a good-sized piece of iron on the inside, back and behind this
shoulder. If a new plate is to be put on and this is not done, you will have to draw down the plate to the thickness of
the old shoulder, and in such a case the plate will add no strength to the share.
The Innd side is, in many cases, worn down on the bottom to a thin, sharp edge, and by placing the piece on top the
landside will be as it was on the bottom side, where it ought to be as thick as you can make it. 3, The weakest place
in the landside is just at the shoulder of the shin, and by placing the piece on top it will not reach over this weak
place, and with a new long point on, the strain will be heavier than before, and the landside will either bend or break.
I have in my experience had thousands of plows that have been broken or bent on account of a poorly-repaired
landside. Blacksmiths, with only a few exceptions, are all making this mistake.
and Landside
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