OCR Text |
Show IMPROVING KING ROAD DRAG Found Too Weak for Work in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and Strengthened by Wrought Iron Strips. The old form of King road drag was merely two sides of a split log, fastened fast-ened so that the sharp sides of the split surface faced forward, the straight surface extending vertically; the two parts were spaced about two feet apart and connected by struts to hold them parallel; the outfit was dragged by a chain, fastened to the front half-log, and the angle at which the contrivance was dragged over the . surface was controlled by the manner in which the team was hitched to the chain, the chain itself being fastened permanently at both ends to two staples sta-ples in the front log, which altered the angle at which the team was hitched, writes L. Ruppin of Pennsylvania In Rural New Yorker. "We found the original form too weak for our road work here, so we devised de-vised certain improvements, which are Improved Form of Road Drag. shown in the sketch, the most important impor-tant of which was that we shod the front log with a strip two inches wide, one-half inch thick, of wrought iron, said strip being placed at the lower edge wdth the two-inch width extending vertically along the front log." |