Show BOX SLEDS AND DRAG BUILT or BARREL STAVES LIKE YOUR grandfather USED ingenious device for springs much more real fun is to bo be got out oat of these than any store sled copyright IW 1917 all rights reserved I 1 for an ingenious boy who Is handy mith tools it will be an easy matter to made a sled that w will III prove a strong and serviceable affair when completed and a great comfort and delight d likht to the younger brother or staler sister who becomes its hippy happy possessor the box bartor par tor neat beat Is made of a large canned goods box and the runners of 0 four barrel staves the upper part ot of the box should be cut dou down n about half way at the front end and shaped as shown shoun in the dran dram ing tho the boards should bo be re renat nailed led to straighten it then obtain four hardwood barrel of uniform width fasten them together in pairs the c convex on sd sides a a fa acerit ac c friT thus forming two run runners n ers th the a upper staves will act aa a springs and alye an easy motion to the sled bled at the ends where they are arc joined cross sticks slicks equal in length I 1 to 0 the width of the box should be nal nailed I 1 a d fast to unite the runners and to Z J T x I 1 I 1 I 1 As C 1 14 I 1 yli I 1 L 11 Q 11 y I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 e 11 I 1 1 I 1 z I 1 ms ap i k 5 ij A t ka F r 0 4 strengthen their eak point the runners are then to he be schemed fast to lo each side of the box under the front and back endi of the box a flat strip may bo be nailed to both box x and runners in such nuch a position that the anchorage of the box to the staves will vill be firmer than if 1 fastened only at tho the middle illustration vo no 2 depicts another at le of box led the box part la Is cut to the same shape hape as before and nailed to strengthen it act two side bide run runners nere from courto six inches in width are securely screwed to the lover lomer sides of f the box in such a a position that aloe tho back bach ends of thorn them will stop at the ar rear ear of the box and the front end will project about twelve to fourteen in inches c has this N mill ill result in it a strong sla simple and serviceable bled with ill aich a great deal of all amusement useve par may ile be had illustration I 1 no 3 shows how a drag made 0 of barrel staves which will viii measure about five ave feet by thirty inches two run runner neri ner i five anve feet long lone are made each of three barrel staves two staves pa as to form the runners and EL a third placed in tho the middle over tin th point to this upper stave the lower ioner ones r I 1 are ballod or sc recal as aa firmly as pos milde this a curved runner five tet feet long lone and four inches ulac ade when th ill runners tile nio ready nail upon thern them a number of cross crosspieces pieces to lo form n n bridge seat and through the nail two no staves slaves too to bind these cross crosb stava zand and l con construction st holes hola should be fall mada lf a at the ends of the runners runn cra into which a rope may be lied till this drax will comfortably seat two and Is a good slider on ice or kardanow har hard danow abow in all theme aleas the alic bottoms of the runners may be made more alip slippery pery by tacking of thick tin on upon them for use on ice ann ever vcr this Is hardly necessary as the friction hill be slight compared to that on snow anew J HARRY ADAMS I 1 |