A Log Sledge.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 205, 28 May 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

A Log Sledge.

A low easy running fledge is often a great convenience to any farm, as by its means heavy implements, cumbrous parts of machinery, or heavy stones or extracted stumps of trees can be easily loaded and carried short distances. But to the bush faimera iruod strong sledge is especially useful. We give a cut of what is usually ea'led in America a " log boat." The runners should be made of tough, hard timber. They should be 2 by S inches, and the front end i« sawn -with a rise of 4 inches. They should be 10 feet in length. On these runners is placed a scantling 4 by 4 inches, with the front end sawn slanting, so as to lit nicely on the top of the i miners. The

wedged shaped piece sawn off should be reversed, and placed by the side of the long scantling so as to make the front end of the boat solid ; it is shown in position in the cut. Tlie nose or front piece should bo kauri plank 2xlo inches, and the pole is attached with clevises, us shown, which, while holding the boat from running upon the team on a steep »nd slippery grade, will permit it to be turned about very easily. The beams are 4x6 inches, made of strong Umbers hile the raye s are 1 x B inches and are bolted thiough the beam 5'5 ' to the runners by bolts with" large, flat heads j 2 inch and nine inches long, the heads being sunken into the runners one-and-one-balf inch. The stake holes go through raves and beams outside the scantling, and are strengthened and prevented from splitting by nailing an old hor^e shoe around them on top of the rave. Such a sledge is easily made and is considered in the Northern States of America to be worth its cost every month on almost any farm.