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Farm Mechanics 
By Robert H. Smith 
Creosote Forming in Chimney 
'Can you tell me wliat to do for my 
chimney? It leaks black water, strong 
with creosote odor, all kinds of weather, 
worse after a cold period when the weath¬ 
er begins to warm. It has bothered for a 
long time with old chimney, which was 
poor. It leaked, using a direct draft with 
one elbow, which was necessary to turn it 
in chimney ; also no difference with three 
elbows. Last August a new chimney was 
built of all new brick, and fine work was 
done, using rich cement, leaving the whole 
inside smooth and straight. It was made 
standard size and rests on cupboard on 
second floor. It has been used since built 
with three elbows and six lengths of pipe 
leading to stove. About Christmas it 
started leaking and ran down stovepipe. 
Every day almost two quarts could be 
dipped out through stovepipe hole, which 
is 3 or 4 in. above bottom of chimney. 
Shortly after Jan. 1 I covered the top of 
chimney which reaches over the outer 
edge of chimney. This stone lies on half 
bricks placed on each of the four corners, 
leaving an opening on sides and ends 
same as the thickness of a brick, giving 
plenty of draft to stove. It runs now 
only every few days and seems to be loos¬ 
ening some cement on inside of the bot¬ 
tom of the chimney. Black juice is start¬ 
ing to streak the outside of chimney a lit¬ 
tle around the top. The top of the chim¬ 
ney stands clear of all the surrounding 
buildings and on ridge of roof. L. e. 
Sprakers, N. Y. 
This is a very common trouble with 
chimneys, especially when wood is used 
as a fuel. It seems to be largely caused 
by condensation in the chimney of mois¬ 
ture and certain products of combustion 
carried up through the smoke pipe as a 
vapor. At other times the trouble is ag¬ 
gravated by snow or storm water beating 
into the chimney. Prevention is the only 
remedy. This consists in leading the 
smoke from the fire to the top of the 
chimney by the most direct route possible, 
and keeping the smoke line warm. To 
this end try to operate the tire with the 
dampers set so that a little heat escapes 
up the pipe, and if the fire must be 
checked, do it by using a damper in the 
pipe rather than by admitting cold air at 
the base of the pipe, as so many heaters 
are arranged to do. This check draft 
must be kept closed. Opening it cools the 
air in the pipe and causes condensation. 
Your experience seems to point to this 
as one of the causes of your trouble, as 
you say it gives least trouble during cold 
spells, when presumably the fire is run 
harder and the pipe kept warm,- and the 
trouble seems worse at the beginning of a 
warm spell, when the fire is presumably 
run lower and checked. See that the pipe 
joints are tight and that the pipe makes 
a close joint with the chimney where it 
enter it, trying in every way to keep the 
cold air out of the pipe line. A chimney 
with a round interior is better than a 
square one. as the corners are largely dead 
space, the smoke ascending in the form of 
a spiral. If the above does not give re¬ 
lief after a careful trial, I would sug¬ 
gest extending the stovepipe up through 
the chimney to the top, if an elbow can be 
fitted at the bottom. 
Low Wagon Wheels; Anchoring Hay-fork 
1. I wish to equip my farm wagons 
with low-down steel wheels; have thought 
to use 24-in. wheels front and 30-in. rear 
wheels. Would these sizes be best? 2. I 
wish to use horses and fork to unload hay 
from wagon to stack. What is the sim¬ 
plest and best way to arrange and anchor 
pole or poles for this purpose? A. o. c. 
Sharon Springs, X. Y. 
1. The extremely low wheel causes 
heavy draft. This is particularly true 
when the wagon is used over the yielding 
surfaces found in farm practice. It has 
a smaller bearing surface on the ground 
and sinks deeper under an equal load, 
and has to be lifted more abruptly to go 
over an obstacle. The higher the wheel 
the easier the draft, but of course the 
wheel height should not be so great as to 
make the wagon unhandy to use. Tests 
made at the Missouri Experiment Sta¬ 
tion show the pull required to move a ton 
over rather dry and firm Timothy and 
Blue grass sod to be as follows : 
High Wheels—Front 44 in., rear 56 
in.. 24S.1 lbs. 
Medium Wheels—Front 36 in., rear 44 
in.. 259.9 lbs. 
Low Wheels—Front 24 in., rear 28 in.. 
300.6 lbs. 
Where the ground is in soft condition 
the difference in draft between low and 
high wheels would be still greater. 
2. The ordinary horse fork is tised 
about here on a cable track for stacking. 
Poles are set up like an inverted V, and 
the cable used for the track stretched 
across their points, and the ends secured 
to timbers buried in the ground. In many 
cases a position for the stack or rick can 
be chosen where a tree can be used to 
support one end of the track, and some¬ 
times both ends can be secured to trees. 
You expect it 
to cost more 
40 H. P. six 
cylinder en- 
gine 
Baked enamel 
body finish 
Delco ignition 
Borg & Beck 
clutch 
Harrison 
radiator 
Alemite 
lubrication 
X10" wheelbase 
with 86%" 
spring length 
Weight 2300 
lbs. 
Oversize cord 
tires 
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