Show BORING FOR FOB bervice PIPES many people hereabouts have hare had bad both pockets and feelings hurt by bj lavida to out up lawn eto etc in order to lay gas gag or water pipes through a ibort abort distance to those who in tu fu ure are have bare to face such a prospect the recent experience 0 charms Lu lurcott an emilye nem of if the scientific amer can will be of in orest erest mr lur cott was desirous of having baring a service pipe to his bis workshop aud and un on the way nod nad twenty four feel of lawn which h he did not want cut so he be determined to 10 bore a bole through the soil to a point below the floor of the shop the boring apparatus was a out of a piece of three luct rat flat iron a abree inch bar somi som six to 9 of piping aad a id a oar car penter centera pen tera ld brace the flat irin sixteenths by one inch and two test feel long was waa bent cold with a twist ol of half a turn in six inches at one end and we the other end being soared scared anu ano to a six foot kongth of three fourths inch round iron the fappo ats end of the three dourthe inch iron was threaded into a turee inch pipe coupling and with the sault ioL of three six aix toot lengths of three eighths inch pipe and couplings the apparatus was waa cam camplese To connee trie bra tas brace with each kisoe of pipe as ai the boring proceeded a abort length of one avid a quarter einab pipe wits wae screwed into a three eighths inch cap its if other end being filed square so 0 o as to enter the brace roio simple and cheap boring machine out tto its way readily through the moll eoll and in jut just nten ml ii atee a bole large enough for a half inch pipe was waa made tor for the required distance of twenty four feet the uger cut ito if way without any tendency to swerve out of line the ground at the time was wai frozen slid and covered with several incle of now shiow and any une one who has had to dig a bresich under such circumstances will appreciate the saying saving of labor attending attend ing this method or of pipe laying in some parts parte of thin city this would be a much simpler and eadler way of at going under sidewalks alde walka than that now followed loll owed |