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Show New and Effective Plan to Drag Auto Out of Mud When my auto seemed hopelessly sunk In n mud hole nnd the only salvation sal-vation to get a nearby farmer to pull me out with a team, I remembered that I had an old pair of skid chains under the back seat, which I then pro- , ceeded to use to advantage. Two fence posts, found beside the road, were laid under the running board on each side and the chains fastened over the forward end, as Indicated In the Illustration, leaving the chain hooks extending towartl the rear wheel. My regular chains were already on the rear wheels, and the hooks of the first chains were attached to then where the posts touched the tires. Butting the car In low gear raised the wheel vertically, and then It came forward on the posts. In dcing this, of course, the pressure on the back part of the posts threw the forward ends up against the underside of the running honrds. This method has saved me quite a sum of money so fur, as I have Getting Car Out of Mud. used It time and again. Bernard Mc-Manus, Mc-Manus, East Mollne, 111., in the Popular Popu-lar Mechanics Monthly. |
