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Two horfes are fufficient for the draught 6f a 

 double-horfe fward-cutter, and one horfe for a 

 •fingle-horfe one; one man manages, the machine, 

 and drives the horfes* He begins his operation by 

 firfl meafuring off twenty or thirty paces from the 

 machine, lefs or more, as he inclines, and there fixes 

 a pole. He then cuts the field crofs, as near at 

 right angles with the ridges as he can. When the 

 cutting wheels are paft the laft furrow about a yard 

 or foy and the machine is upon the outmoft ridge 

 of the field on which it muft turn, he muft ftop 

 "the horfes, then take hold of the lever I. fig. i, No. 

 a, and by pulling it to him, he raifes the cutting 

 wheels out of the ground, which are kept fo by the 

 loop of the rope being put over the pin R. in the 

 lever I. No. 3, till the machine is turned and brought 

 to its proper place, which is done by meafuring off 

 the fame diftance formerly done on the oppofite fide 

 of the field. When the cutting wheels are exadly 

 over the outmoft furrow, then, on the horfes being 

 Hopped, flipc off the pin R. and the lever returned 

 to its former place, as reprefented No. 2, which 

 allows the weights L. L. &c. to force the cutting 

 wheels into the ground again. He then goes on till 

 the interval betwixt the firft and fecond ftroke of 

 the machine is all cut. In this manner the field is 

 to be finifhed, after which you may begin to plow 



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