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Show EXCELLENT AS ROOT CUTTER Home-Made Affair Proves Equally Effective Ef-fective as Fancy Priced Implement How It is Made. I have a root cutter that I made which does the business just as well as one that would cst a fancy price, says a writer in the Orange Jodd Farmer. I can cut a bushel of roots in less than two minutes. Anyone handy with a saw and hammer can make one like it. Make a box, a, 8x10x12 inches. For Homemade Root Cutter. the slide, b, use two pieces of inch boards 1 inches wide and 28 Inches long. Make the knife, c, out of a piece of sheet Iron sharpened on both sides. It should be two inches wide and 8 inches long. Nail sheet iron 8 inches wide on top of the slide'frame and put the knife in place as shown. Fasten a bow made from the end of an old buggy shaft, as shown by d. Hinge it to the slide and fasten it to the handle, e, with a bolt. Nail two cleats on the siiie of the legs, as shown by f. The slide will operate on these. |