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Show BOB SLED FOR HEAVY WORK One Shown In illustration Has Advantage Ad-vantage of Turning Short Corners Cor-ners With Big Load. In reply to a query for a plan and description of a bob sled, suitable for hauling wood, fodder and other heavy work, the Country Gentleman makes the following reply: The following account of a bob sled was sent us years ago by D. B. Raymond; Ray-mond; he used it for years for logging, and it has the advantage that it will turn short corners and enable a team to draw one-fourth more than any other sled. The tongue is not set stiff, but is fastened to the nose-piece with two devices one on the tongue, and one on the cross-piece, making a sort of universal joint, permitting it to turn at right angles, and allowing the team to turn half around without moving the load, and to clear trees and logs. Fig. 1 Chain Bob Sleds. The draft-chain being entirely Independent Inde-pendent of the tongue, the latter may be made light If used much on the road. It should be heavier, and set stiff. The bobs are coupled together with a forked cable chain in place of a reach, with a grab-hook on each end, and a ring In the center. This ring is put into a clevis at the rear end of the saddle-plank of the front bob, the other ends of the chain to rings on the nose of the rear bob. The rings are large enough for the chain ' to double through, so as to let them out or draw them together, and by which logs of any length from 8 to 25 feet may be placed equally on both. The rings, properly put on, cannot catch a tree or brush; and the chains playing up and down, permit the rear bob to go over the roughest ground, logs or brush. The shoes of the runners are made of the hardest dry wood, sawed slightly slight-ly across the grain, so as to wear with It They will last a whole winter. The lower figure in Fig. 2 shows how they (5 O Q) Fig. 2 Sled Shoe and Bolster. are put on. The bolster of the rear bob Is 4 by 5 inches. The bolt heads which fasten it should be "let in," so as to be out of the way. The bolster of the forward for-ward bob is shown in the upper figure of Fig. 2, and has rings to bind the load. The saddle-plank, on the front bob, should be"2V2 inches thick and a foot wide, to support the king-bolt and whole load. |