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Show CONSTRUCTING A PUMP JACK Collection of Old Worn-Out Machinery Improvised Into Serviceable Apparatus Ap-paratus for Farm. Around nearly every farm one will find a collection of worn-out machinery that Is worth a few cents as junk but with a little Ingenuity the average farmer can make It yield htru a better profit, writes Kdward 11 Chalk In the Farmers Mall and Hree.e, On this farm I tntule a pump Jack out of an old windmill head. The boxings were rer babbited and on the shaft which car Jhm Improvised Pump Jack. rled the large wheel a pulley was placed. A couple of heavy blocks of wood were burled near the pump and a platform fasiened to them. On this platform my Jack was set up. In the top of an upright piece a walking beam was pivoted as shown In the cut, one end being fastened to the pump rod and the other connecting with the geared wheel of the windmill head. |