So MODERN BLACKSMITHING 



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 stand- 

 ard 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 corre- 

 spond with the cogs in the standard. On the outside 

 of the standard is an eccentric lever. Through this 

 lever is a tapered hole 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 dif- 

 ferent 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 3"ou 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 



