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.
house. No architect will ever think of building a substantial
house without a solid foundation. No practical plowsmith will
ever try to make a good plow without a solid landside.
For prairie or brush breakers, where no plate is used, it will be
all right to repair the landside by placing a piece of iron on top
of it, provided it is not much worn, and the patch reaches back
far enough to strengthen the landside. But even in such cases
it is better to lay it on the inner side.
LANDSIDE POINT FOR SLIPS HARE
We have now learned how to prepare the landside for a solid
or long bar share. We shall now learn how to make a landside
point for slipshares. There are smiths that will take the old
worn-out stub of a slipshare point, weld a piece to it, and then
weld the share on. This is very ridiculous and silly. There is
nothing left in such a point to be of any use. Make a new one;
be sure to make it high enough-at least half an inch higher than
share will be lower that is, the joint of the lay will be lower than the joint of the mouldboard, and it should be the
other way.
On this point many an old smith and every beginner makes mistakes, and not only in this case, but in everything else.
Whatever you have to make, be sure to have stock enough to work down on, and you will be all right. It is better to
have too' much than not enough.
In shaping the point remember to hold it perpendicular, and give very little slant up at the joint, but more towards the
point. If too much slant up at the joint there will be difficulty in welding it. Remember this. Don't make the point
straight like a wedge; if you do the share will be above the frog. Give it the same circle it had, and the share will rest
solid on the frog. This is another important point to remember: The lay will not have the full strength if it don't rest on
the frog, and it will not be steady, and the plow will not run good, for in a few days the share flops up and down.
and Landside Part 2
Slipshare Part 2 >>>