Show IMPROVING KING ROAD DRAG found too weak for work in pennsylvania vania and strengthened by wrought iron strips the old form of king road drag was merely two sides of a split log fastened so that the sharp sides ot 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 ciar the surface was controlled by the manner in which the team was hitched to the chain the chain itself being beang fastened permanently at both ends to two staples in the front log which altered the angle at which the team was hitched writes L of pennsylvania in enral new yorker we found the original form too weak for our road work here so we devised certain improvements which are E C E improved form of road drag shown in the sli sketch etch the most important of which was that we shod the front log with a strip two inches wide one halt half inch thick of wrought iron said strip being placed at the lower edge with the two inch width extending vertically along the front log |