A Simple Clod Crusher Pulverizer.
Our practical readers know full well the value of a fine and compact seed bed. They know that, if a field is left with a surface covered with rough clods, autumn sown crops will not get the even start on such ground which is of so much advantage to them in order to go through the winter well. If rough farmyard manure is used it is a great point to have it well broken up and thoroughly incorporated with tho surface soil. The Rural New Yorker thinks that for breaking up clods and pulverizing the surface there is no imploment that will do such good work as a.plank pulvorizor, made like the one represented in tho cut.
Anyone who is handy with ordinary carpentei's tools can make it without much trouble. Our contemporary gives the folio-wing description of lioav to mako this cod crusher : — Get three pieces of tough, hard wood scantling 3x4 inches and five feet long ; from the front end of each saw off a wedging piece U inch thick at the front end and running out at 10 inches from the end, as shown at A. Nail this wedge on the back end, as shown at B. Then cut a notch oue-half inch deep and of the proper slant, "o as to be two inches from the stick, 12 inches back from tho deepest point of the notch, as shown at C. Bore a hole, threequarters of an inch in diameter, in each of the tw o pieces for end pieces, 20 inches from the front end. as shown at D. Next procure six planks 12 inches wide, two inches thick and eight feet long ; put these on as shown, commencing at the rear ond, letting the plank project one inch back of the scantling, and lapping each forward plank 1^ inch over the next one back of it ; the one next to tho front should havo its front edge notched to l\ inch thick where it comes on the scantlinir, and the front plank, of course, leaches within a half inch of being flush with the top of the scantling. Two clevises aie put on, as shown at E. E., to which a chain is hitched for drawing. No more effectual pulverizer could be made, and it is also a capital tool for covering grass or clover seed when sown, if the sJU is in proper condition.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 205, 28 May 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)
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406A Simple Clod Crusher Pulverizer. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 205, 28 May 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)
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