A Reversible Waggon Jack. The Farm. (From New Zealand Farmer.)

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 378, 19 June 1889, Page 3

A Reversible Waggon Jack.

The Farm. (From New Zealand Farmer.)

A waggon 1 jack seems a simple enough kind of implement, and yeb probably there is no mechanical contrivance connected with farm life which has called iorth so great a number of ingenious variations in the form of its contruction. One of the latest ideas that has come under our notice is the one here illustrated, of which the author is a Canadian fellow colonist. He thus describes the invention in an agricultural contemporary :—: — <: The base is a scantlinsr, four inches wide, three inches thick, and two feet long. The two upright pieces are of hard wood boards an inch thick, four inches wide, and two feet high. The lower ends ai % e let into the base and firmly nailed or screwed to it. Near the top aye three half-inch holes in each, for the bolt to support the lever. The lever is of hard wood an inch and a quarter thick, four feet long and five inches wide at one end, tapering to a handle at the other. A long slot is cut through its centre with notches on either side. At the large end of the lever is a round notch on either side, for the hub of the wheel to rest in. A halfinch bolt supports the lever, the holes in

the upright bars allowing ib to be bhifted * ,up or down for wheels of different sizes. An ' iron rod, four feet long, is benb through the slofe in the lever, and each end .is fastened by an eye to a bolt through the standards, seven inches from the ba3e. As will be seen be the dotted lines the lever may be reversed when desired."