Show ROOT GUTTER CUTTER IS HANDY DY good use made of piece of an old crosscut saw blade large roots such as rutabagas man gels and turn ps can be held with one hand wh ie le knife Is worked with other the best root cutter I 1 ever had hold of or ever saw was one that was built by a german boy I 1 had working for me writes R E dimich in the farmer we considered him none too reliable in general but when it came tp contriving shandy things about the place he was a marvel of ingenuity and strange to say h he did most of his work on these contrivances after work hours or at noon this root cutter consisted of two upright pieces A and B see ll il lustra tion the upright A in this case be I 1 11 hii homemade root cutter ing the studding in my dairy barn a diagonal piece C having a slit G in it for a knife guide a cutting table D with a spout attached for the cut roots to fall on a cutting blade E passing through the guide slit in C and pivotally attached to the up right A I 1 made my first one with an old hand saw thinking the thinner the blade the better it would cut but later when this got broke I 1 put in a piece of an old crosscut saw and found that this thick blade was much more tory such large roots as rutabagas man gels or turnips can be held with one hand while the knife is worked ditl the other and it Is really surprising how rapidly the work can be done we cut roots for over twenty cows all of one winter and were perfectly sat istl isfried ed with our rig although we had tried out several of the factory rigs with cranks |