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Show I ORCHARD. LADDER ON WHEEL8. It Is Easy to Move It About Among the Trees. Some years ago I built a ladder on wheels. Tho accompanying sketch 11-hictrates 11-hictrates the manner of construction, explains a correspondent of Orange , Judd Farmer. Any farmer or orchard-R( orchard-R( 1st can build It. In my orchard' are The Ladder on Wheels. Bomo vory high trees. It is dimcult work to carry a tall ladder from one to another whllo picking tho fruit. I secured two old mower wheels and one piece of two by four scantling for an axle. I placo my ladder upon 1 this scantling. To keep It upright, I used poles, two at tho bottom and one S near tho top of the ladder, extending 1 to tho ground. The uppor one was ffl forked at the top so as to hold tho f ladder llrmly. My ladder Is 18 feet 1 high, and as tho foundation Is broad, 2 there is no danger of It falling ovr. J Tho brace Is so made that It can bo fl adjusted, thus enabling me to placo j tho ladder at any angle. |