Show WOOD HYDRAULIC RAM RAMOne RAMi i c r i iOne One Been on Duty Fifteen Months Without Stop I Farmer Who Has Never Taken Course l. l In Hydraulics Describes Pump He 3 Made Himself illustrations Himself Illustrations I j I Show Make Make keUP Up S Some think that it takes a man mM who has Jias had a course in hydraulics to put pul pula puta a n hydraulic ram in operation but I 4 think that is a mistaken idea I have never taken a course and have havo seen soen but one ram besides my own at work worIe which has been on yet I have a 11 ram duty duh about fifteen months day and night Sundays Sunda's not excepted Further than this it was made out of wood and on my own place This Is the I. I 3 I i fi 30 way It was was made writes C. C M. M Gravelyn Gravely In n the Farm and Fireside I took toole a block of hard wood 10 by i 12 by 30 Inches A l inch 1 I ch hole was bored from A to 0 O then from S a to 0 O I connected to A 0 O at an angle I mortised mortised mortised mor mor- from M 1 to A 0 O a hofe hare 4 43 Inches at tho the top as shown at V. V A shaped saucer-shaped hole was cut out at atS atS atS S as shown in sketch A lever Fig 2 was made and pivoted at B. B Ina In Ina a plate of at Iron 3 16 Inch thick a hole was cut Fig 4 This was bolted down at M using common bolts Apiece Apiece A Apiece piece of sole leather was placed under Jt it to answer for packing and also to deaden the stroke of the valve Ahole Ahole A Ahole hole was C cut lt in the leather leather the size of the hole in th the p plate ate Fig 3 was suspended In mortise V Fig 1 Into a plate of iron fron Fig 6 S eight Inch holes were drilled In a small circle This was bolted down with l lag g screws over mortise at S S S' The leather valve e Fig 6 5 was fastened fastened fastened fast fast- ened over holes Fig C G 6 with a small bolt through center hole In plate and 0 n n valve and fitted water-tight water at the bolt Packing was placed under the plate and all screwed down tight At X a a cut was made of sufficient depth depthS S and width to allow an tube air to be beI I inserted in a hole bored with a bit at ata n a slight an angle le upward This tube air 5 It 14 6 I. I 6 0 I I eo I 1 r 0 0 4 S ri waH made of of-a of a a small piece of pipe plugged a at one end with lead with a avery avery very small hole placed In the plugging At AtS S was cut ut a circular groove to reS receive re reo re- re S S fe cel the chamber air-chamber which was an anold anold anold old stove pot The pot was not exactly exactly ex ex- ex what I wanted but was the best thing I had k A A strip of packing was as put In the groove and the pot placed and bolted down The timbers Umbers at 3 3 wele e placed at right an angles les to the body of the ram the top one being hollowed bellowed out to fit the Inverted pot The pot was fastened down with with fou long bolts that went Yent through the Umbers limbers above and below A Inch cho e 3 was bored downward and outward out out- v ward waid Ud as shown at C C and R R beIng being being be be- ing connected at I L U L. L The piping was we well threaded and screwed directly boles holes in the timber Umber to sufficient sum depth to insure a good hold I Att After r all these things were done the ram worked successfully st In this particular case water enters the ram through A from a dam 10 feet higher than th the position of the ram The brace D prevents from lowering too far R comes from a aS S spring which likewise supplies water to S. S A check va valve ve prevents pre the the WaS Water water wa Wa- S ter from being forced back into the spring The delivery pipe R fl R which 0 I. I leads to the house feet away IsS is made of pipe S |