OCR Text |
Show BUYING UP OLD IRON It Can Be Used to Reinforce Concrete Con-crete Structures. Cement Posts, Water Tanks and Pig Troughs Will Be Stronger If Pieces of Old Machinery Are Mixed in When Molded. Buy up the old iron, sold at the pub-! pub-! lie sales next spring, and use it in j reinforcing your concrete structures. Such articles as old buggies, discard-; discard-; ed machinery and Junk piles usually are sold at the first bid. This material makes good reinforcing for concrete corner posts. Cement posts are becoming be-coming popular, and there is a great demand for reinforcing material. Old iron, -that would otherwise be an eyesore eye-sore and a nuisance about the place, can be used to good advantage. The successful farmer of the future will use much cement. He can make water tanks, pig troughs and similar stationary articles about the farm so they will be everlasting. A roller can be made of cement for about what the freight would cost on one shipped from the manufacturer. Get a shaft about two inches in diameter diam-eter and one foot longer than the length of the roller, and build a form of one-inch boards, using old wagon tires for hoops. Be sure that the structure is firmly supported in the middle to prevent bulging; old mowing mow-ing machine wheels which will fit the shaft may be used for reinforcement, and will aid in centering the shaft accurately. ac-curately. Old iron from the junk pile may be used in the reinforcing if there are not enough old (wheels at hand. After the form is arranged the adding of cement is a simple matter. A proportion of about one part of cement ce-ment to three parts of sand is recommended. recom-mended. Crushed rock, or hard cinders, cin-ders, may be used to replace two parts of the sand. After the roller is finished fin-ished the frame and hitch may be built according to the materials, and the ideas, of the user. The, hitch should be placed low so the weight will be removed from the tongue. That will prevent sore necks on the horses. |