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h Modern Blacksmithing RATIONAL HORSE SHOEING AND WAGON MAKING I W ITH RULES, TABLES, RECIPES, ETC., - USE-. FUL TO MANUFACTURERS. BLACKGhIITHS, MACHINISTS, WELL-DRILLERS. ENGINEERS, LIVERYMEN. HORSE - S I I E R S, FARMERS, WAGON-MAKERS, RIECHANICS, An1 ATEU RS AND ALL OTHERS WHO HAVE OCCASIOX TO IERFORhl THE WORK FOR WHICH THIS HOOK IS PKFhlARIldY IITENDED R l7 J. G. I-IOLh ISTROhI Wttb fDat p lllluetratione - 1904 - ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE . Frontispiece .................................... 3 The Smith ..................................... 2 10 The Shop .................................... 33 The Anvil .......... ......................... 33 Tool Table ................................... 35 The Sledge ..................................... 38 Blacksmiths Tongs ............................. 39 Hammers ..................................... 48 Wrenches ..................................... 46 Correct Position at the Anvil ..................... 50 Water Tuyer ................................. 53 Blowers ...................................... 54 Standing Coulter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Holstrom Tire Holder ........................... 81 Tire n Sections ................................. 83 Axle and Gather Gauge .......................... 86 John Deere, Inventor of Plows ................... 89 Plow of 200 years ago .......................... 93 Plowshares .................................. .9 5-112 Japanese Plow ................................. 105 Bench for Holding Plows ........................ 106 Tube for Welding .............................. 128 3 ILLUSTRATIONS . . PAGE Tube Expander ................................ 129 The Horse..................................... 133 . Horse Shoes ............................... 1 34 to 157 Foot, The Natural ................. .............. 147 Foot Prepared for Cartier Tips ................... 150 Foot Shod with Cartier Tips ...................... 150 Ring Bone .................................... 154 Anatomy of the Foot ............................ 154 Clamping Irou . .............................. 156 Sand Crack Clamps .............................. 157 Cracked Walls ................................ 157 Quarter Crack .................................. 157 Easy Position for Finishing ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 . Spavin ........................................ 168 Lathe, The ....., .............................. 184 R I PREFACE - THAT prompted the author to prepare this book was the oft - repeated question, by blacksnliths and mechanics of all kinds, as well as fanners Is there a book treating on this or that etc., etc. To all these queries I was compelled to answer in the negative, for it is a fact that froin the time of Cain, the first mechanic, there has never been a book written by a practical blacksmith on subjects belonging to his trade. If, therefore, there has ever been such a thing as filling a long-felt want, this must certainly be a casz of that kind. In medicine we find a wide difference of opinion, even amongst practitioners of the same school, in treating diseases. Now, if this is so where there is a system, and authority for the profession, how much more so must there be a difference of opinion in a trade where every practitioner is his own authority. I shall, therefore, ask the older members of the blacksmith fraternity to be lenient in their jtdgment if my ideas-dont coincide with theirs. ToLthe apprentice and journeyman I would say do as I do until you find a better way. The author has been-eminently successful in his practice, and his ideas have been sought by others wherever he has been, blacksmiths coming even from otherstatestolearnhisways...