206 THE farmers' handbook. 



Fleece Tables. — Construct one wool sorting table 12 feet long 4 feet 6 inches wide and 

 3 feet high, having six 5-inch x 5-inch legs, 5-inch x 24-inch top rails, 3-inch x 2-inch 

 centre rad, 4-inch x l£-inch stays and braces, and the top rail filled in with l^-inch x 

 lj-inch spars set on corner at 2f-inch spaces, the ends housed into rails. Fix around 

 bottom of legs on floor, movable 12-inch x 1-inch boards, to fit in fillets. The whole of 

 the above to be wrot Oregon. 



Under window at counting pens, where shown on plan, fit up piece bins, with centre 

 table top to lift out, each bin to be 4 feet 6 inches long x 4 feet wide, made similar to 

 wool table, to slide in fillets fixed to inner ends of bins. Bins to be formed up with 

 6-inch x f-inch tongued, grooved, and beaded lining fixed to corner studs, top rails, and 

 cleats, finished on top edges with 3-inch x 1^-inch capping rounded off. 



fSxp&rts' Bench. — Construct in expert's room a side bench 5 feet long with 5-inch x 

 5-inch legs, 6-inch x l^-inch rails, and 18-inch x 2-inch wrot oregon top screwed down. 

 Fix on back to studs 12-inch x 1-inch wall board. 



Shafting Beam. — Where indicated over shearing board and to heads of 12-inch round 

 posts fix 10-inch x 4-inch wrot oregon beam, 6 feet 9J inches clear of floor fixed with 

 g-inch bolts. In expert's room, set short round post 12 inches diameter to take grinder, 

 as shown on Section AA. 



Wool Press. — Set for wool press where shown four extra heavy round blocks on 8-inch 

 x 3-inch sole plates 12 inches under the ground, and fix 5-inch x 4-inch bearers as may 

 be required to take the press. 



Boors.— All doors to be wrot on both sides, the framed doors of oregon styles and top 

 rails, other rails colonial pine and sheeting of oregon. Plain ledge doors of oregon 

 sheeting on colonial pine ledges and braces, the outer boards to be screwed to ends of 

 ledges. 



Doors at loading platform to be framed and ledged 2 inches thick, 10 feet wide, in two 

 halves, the meeting styles to be rebated and beaded, doors hung at top with McCabes 

 steel track and guides to floor and secure with 10-inch galvanised hasp and staple, 

 chain and drop pin on inside. 



Doors to small landing, at end of fleece bins, and to expert's room to be plain ledge 

 6 feet 8 inches x 2 feet 8 inches x 1 inch hinged with 14-inch tee hinges, and secured 

 with 6-inch carpenter's lock. Doors to engine room to be the full width, 6 feet 6 inches 

 high in two leaves hinged to corner studs with 18-inch Scotch tee hinges secured with 

 10-inch tower bolt at top, 10-inch galvanised hasp, staple and 2-inch padlock. 



Doors to be inclined to pens, to be also in two leaves, the full width, hinged as before, 

 to open out against the sides of races, secured inside with 10-inch bolts, and each leaf 

 provided with strong cabin hook to fasten against sides of races. Doors to catching 

 pens to be in one leaf, 2 feet wide, hinged with double acting spring hinges of approved 

 make. Chute doors to be made 2 feet 7 inches high x 22 inches wide, of ^-iuch tongued 

 and grooved Baltic lining on 4-inch x 1-inch ledges, fitted to slide upwards over face of 

 sashes, and each fitted with 4-inch tower bolt to secure them open or shut. 



All doors to be fitted with suitable wrot steps of the required width and thickness, and 

 all ledge doors to be properly braced to suit the openings, braces 4 inches wi le, those in 

 two leaves to have 4-inch x f-inch champhered cover strip screwed on the closing half. 



Gates.- -All gates (except where shown balanced gates) to sweating, catching, and 

 counting pens, also two gates under wool-room to be of the sizes shown, made with 

 3-inch x l£-inch oregon double styles halved over 3-inch x 1^-inch oregon rails, braced 

 and bolted at crossings with g-inch cuphead bolts, nuts and washers, hung with 18 inch 

 tee jap hinges and fastened with slide, batten centre style and two braces hung with 

 18-inch x 2-inch x £-inch wrought-iron hinges, bolted to gates, and with suitable hooks. 

 Gates on counting pens to have 18-inch x l^-inch x ]-inch wrought-iron hinges as above. 



Balanced gates to be constructed similar to others, hung in box frame, formed as 

 already specified, having heavy axle pulleys, sash cord, and suitable cast-iron or lead 

 weights, as required. 



Windows. — Window over table in wool room to be double hung sashes twelve-light 

 If-inch thick redwood, in box frame of 1-inch pulley styles and linings, cedar beads 

 7 inch x 3 inch sunk and weathered tallow-wood sill finished under outer edge with 

 i round. Sashes to be hung with No. 6 Sampson's spot cord, cast-iron weights, and 

 fitted with approved fastener and lifts. 



