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wheels, and often costly without any advantage in utility ; therefore we give prominence 

 to the simplest and most useful. The market- garden wheel-barrow (3) has each side 

 and handle formed of one board, 12 to 14 inches deep, and 4J to 5 feet long, each cut 

 away on the under side to form the handles, and the front upper corner is rounded off. 

 The width at the bottom is 17 inches and at the top 21 inches ; the length at the bottom 

 14 to 15 inches, and at the top 27 inches. The front edge projects forward 11 inches, 

 and the handles bend backward 3 inches, both being 2 inches higher than the sides, into 

 which they are mortised, and the whole is firmly secured by iron bolts and pins. The 



Fig. 58. AXES, BILLHOOK, SAWS, HAMMER. 



References : Axes : 1, Kent; 2, Scotch ; 3, hatchet with claws for drawing nails ; 4, hammer; 5, billhook; 

 6 and 7, pruning saws ; 8, key-hole saw ; and 9 and 10, American pruning saws. 



wheel is well under the body, lessening the weight on the arms, and admitting the 

 ready tipping of the load and the turning of the barrow in a small space, whilst its 

 narrowness allows it to be used between rows of gooseberries and similar limited areas. 



The market-garden fruit-barrow (1) is 7 feet to 7 feet 6 inches long, and about 23 

 inches wide. It is useful for wheeling fruit in baskets, a dozen half-sieves being easily 

 conveyed. When covered with f-inch board, and 2 -inch deep movable sides affixed, 

 as indicated by the dotted lines, it is converted into a handy barrow for wheeling 

 pots and other substances, one man doing as much work as two with a hand- 

 barrow. 



