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solid enough to permit hammering, driving nails, etc. 

 Usually the top of the bench is straight, true and level 

 and it should be kept free from litter and extra tools. 

 Good carpenters prefer a tool rack separate from the 

 bench. It may stand on the floor or be attached to the 



Figure 11. Monkey-Wrenches are the handiest of all farm 

 wrenches, but they were never intended to hammer with. Two sizes 

 are needed an eight-inch for small nuts and a much larger wrench, 

 to open two inches or more, to use when taking the disks off the 

 shafts of a disk harrow. A large pipe-wrench to hold the round 

 shaft makes a good companion tool for this work. 



wall. Carpenter tools on a farm are not numerous, 

 but they should have a regular place, and laborers on 

 the farms should be encouraged to keep the tools where 

 they belong. 



WOODWORKING TOOLS 



Every farmer has an axe or two, some sort of a 

 handsaw and a nail hammer. It is astonishing what 

 jobs of repair work a handy farmer will do with such 

 a dearth of tools. But it is not necessary to worry 

 along without a good repair kit. Tools are cheap 

 enough. 



Such woodworking tools as coarse and fine toothed 

 hand saws, a good square, a splendid assortment of 

 hammers and the different kinds of wrenches, screw 

 clamps, boring tools in fact a complete assortment of 

 handy woodworking tools is an absolute necessity on a 

 well-managed farm. 



