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PORTABILITY, ECONOMY, TRANSPORTATION, &c. 
Among the many considerations in the invention, construction and perfection of the 
foregoing machinery has been their portability for safe transportation by various ways, as 
Railroads, Steamboats, sailing vessels, and by all kinds of land carriage. 
§ 33. All machines from the Albany Agricultural Works are made with especial 
care in this particular, so that they may be readily taken apart for packing in the most 
condensed and safe manner, to bear handling and exposure without injury, by any of the 
ordinary modes of transportation ; while all parts are so simple and plainly marked and 
numbered, that any person of ordinary capacity can without trouble or delay put thera 
together. See Plate III. 
For land transportation the Horse Powers are intended to be rigged upon axles and wheels 
and in a manner as shown in the engraving on the opposite page, forming a wagon of 
itself, into which may be loaded the threshers and all other parts appertaining to them. 
The axle of the large wheels should be placed crosswise the Power, and over the project- 
ing ends of the lower or sill timbers at the forward or gear end of the Horse Power, and 
firmly and permanently bolted to them. This axle may be made of any kind of hard, 
strong timber, say four by five inches square, and used edgewise. The ends of the axles to 
be fitted to any large wheels of a common farm wagon . 
The forward axle should be of similar strength, and have a tongue or spire connected to 
it with eye bolts and braces, and fitted for the ordinary small wheels of a farm wagon. 
A bolster for the Power should be made of tough, hard wood plank, about two inches 
thick and eight inches wide, and bolted permanently on the other end of the Power and to the 
under side of the projecting ends of the lower sill timbers. A large hole is made through 
the centre of this bolster for the draught bolt. As in this arrangement both the axle and 
bolster are straight, it is necessary to have a large, circular, wooden washer or rocker, made 
of a hard-wood plank, say twelve inches diameter and three inches in thickness, placed 
between the bolster and axle, the draught bolt passing through its centre. 
The axle of the large wheels should be long enough to admit the gear and band wheels of 
the Horse Power to be attached and operated within the large wagon wheels, as shown. 
This is much the cheapest, most convenient and desirable method of mounting a Horse 
Power for farmers and threshers' use and transportation. 
§ 34. In setting the same in operation, the Power should be driven as nearly upon the 
spot where it is to stand as possible, and with jacks or levers allow the forward axle and 
wheels to be removed, and that end of the Power lowered, so that the bolster will rest upon 
the ground. Then take out the other machines and place them, put on the band, and all is 
ready for the horses to be put in and commence operations. 
§ 35. When intended for distant transportation by railroad or on shipboard, the side boards 
of the Power are taken off and lashed strongly together, with their finished sides toward 
each other. The band and gear wheels are lashed to each other. The endless platform of 
the Horse Power, upon which the horses travel, is bolted down in its place, to prevent the 
wheels, links or flooring being lost or disarranged, 
The Thresher is also contracted nearly one- half, by removing the feeding table and other 
projecting parts and confining them flatwise to the side of the Thresher itself. The Com- 
bined Thresher and Cleaner is also similarly packed, and contains all the beaters, bands, pul- 
leys, riddles, sieves, grain spouts and extras, safe from injury from handling or exposure. 
The vignettes in the lowet centre and right and left corners of Plate III, represent the 
several machines packed for shipment, also being loaded on shipboard, &c. 
§ 36. As the weight and cubic measurement of them govern the rates of transportation, 
they are given here as follows : 
Two-Horse Power, without side boards,. ... 97 feet. } 
Side boards for same, 26 " > 130 feet; weight, 1660 lbs. 
Band and gear wheel, 7 " ) 
Threshers (14 x 26 in. cylinder) 46 feet. ) fiQ , { i( A1C . it 
Separators for same, 22 " { w 4IU 
Thresher and Cleaner, with straw carrier, 85 " " 740 " 
One-Horse Power, with side boards and wheels, 83 " " 1100 " 
The One-Horse Power is mostly used for light work, and where it is necessary to be often 
removed to a new position, as in sawing wood at railway stations, and in the wood lot, among 
the trees and without roads, for the purpose of driving log cross-cut saw mills ; also for 
mechanical purposes, where the room occupied is a great consideration ; also for threshing 
grain among farmers with small crops, and small barns to operate them in. 
§ 37. When it is consistent, it is always preferable to use the wide Power, as its cost is but 
fifteen to twenty per cent, more than the narrow. While it is preferable for one horse 
alone, its effective force with two horses is increased nearly one hundred and fifty per cent., 
as, by reference to section 32, it will be seen that with one horse alone one-third, (or 33£ 
per cent.) of his power is absorbed in friction and generating the required velocity, while 
the ratio of power absorbed in working two horses together is but about 17 per cent. Again, 
the work is much easier for the team when two horses are used together, and no changing of 
team is required. Whenever an excess of force is generated by both horses, the Power 
should be lowered to a less angle of elevation, until their weight and travel just equal the 
resistance, or work being dore, thereby making it still easier work for the team. 
