THE FARM SHOP 



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Screw-drivers should be mostly strong and heavy for 

 farm work. Three sizes of handled screw-drivers of 

 different lengths and sizes, also two or three brace bit 

 screw-drivers are needed. One or two bits may be 

 broken or twisted so the assortment is sometimes 

 exhausted before the screw is started. 



Figure 18. Heavy Hand Ax for Use on the Shop Chopping Block. 

 A beet topping knife is shown also. 



Figure 19. Heavy Screwdriver. The strongest and cheapest 

 screwdriver is made from a single bar of steel. The wooden handle 

 is made in two parts and riveted as shown. 



Pinch bars and claw bars are very useful in a farm 

 tool kit. Farm mechanical work consists principally 

 in repairing implements, machinery, fences and build- 

 ings. Always a worn or broken part must be removed 

 before the repair can be made. A pinch bar twenty- 

 four inches long, Figure 21, with a cold chisel end, and 

 another bar eighteen inches long with a crooked claw 

 end, Figure 22, for pulling nails and spikes comes in 



