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FARM APPLIANCES. 



SERVICEABLE WAGOIST-JACKS. 



Take a scantling two and a half feet long, one inch 

 thick, two and a half inches wide; rip it with a saw from 

 top, to within fiye or six inches of the bottom, like a 



Fig. 39. WAGON-JACK. 



tuning fork, figure 39. One prong is the lever, saw the 

 other prong off at top, one inch higher than the bottom 

 of the hind axle ; then saw it off at the shoulder five or 

 six inches from bottom ; fasten it on again with a hinge 

 exactly where it was sawed off, and it is ready for use. 



Fig. 40. HOME-MADE WAGON-JACK. 



Set it under the axle, lowering the lever enough to allow 

 it to go there ; then raise the lever past the balance, 

 and it will go together of its own weight, and stay there. 

 At the left of the engraving it is seen as lowered, at 



