A GARDEN SEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 19

A GARDEN SEAT

HOW TO MAKE IT

The garden seat illustrated in the accompanying sketches may be easily made, and at a trifling cost. Stout poles having the bark intact may be used throughout, but it is desirable for-the sake of comfort to use battens to form the seat, and they may also be used for the back.

Fig. 2 shows an enlarged end view. The back stays (A) should be notched as at Tig. 3, and the back logs (B) treated as seen in Fig. 4. The front leg

(C) may be effectively fixed, to tho rail (D) by cutting the end as seen in Fig. 5, and making a slot in the rail at the point where it is intended to make the joint. These two classes of joints are employed throughout, stout nails being used to hold them.

In order to make this typo of garden seat quite rigid, it should bo made longer than appears in the sketch of the finished article (Fig. 1) and be strengthened by means of cross stays. The sketch of the end elevation suggests a method of doing this. This portion must be- treated "with creosote, tar, or some equally effective preserver, and bo quite 4ry before being sunk into .position. Tig. 6, depicting the front view, explains itself. All the timber

should have at least one coat of creosote, especially any part below or near tha soil.