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FARM APPLIANCES. 



APPARATUS FOR LIFTING A WAGON-BODY, 



To lift a heavy wagon-body from its truck is tedious 

 work, if to be done by main force only. The use of pul- 

 leys facilitates the operation materially, but not as much 

 as the apparatus shown in figure 37. It is simple, 

 very convenient, and may be easily made by any farmer 

 handy with tools. J, in the engraving, is a wooden rol- 

 ler, about three inches in diameter, and resting on the 



Fig. 87. APPARATUS FOB HOISTING A WAGON-BODY. 



joists 0, which are over the wagon in its shed, d is a 

 rope which winds around the roller, and is fastened at 

 its lower end to the cross-piece e. Through each end 

 of the cross-piece passes a half -inch round iron bar, f t 

 with bar on top of e. The lower ends terminate with 

 square bends of three inches, which hook under the box, 

 and when turned half round will slip off, and may 

 be hoisted up and put out of the way. The handles, c, 

 are four feet long and are mortised into the roller. A 

 man or boy standing on the ground can turn the handles 



