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A Rotating
Storage Rack
From the book Homemade Contrivances, 1899
A handy arrangement for hanging up articles, as for instance,
tools in the shop, or meats and other eatables in the storeroom,
is shown in the accompanying sketch. This plan is particularly to
be commended where it is desired to get the articles up out of the
reach of mice, rats or cats. Suspend a worn-out buggy wheel to the
ceiling by an iron bolt, with a screw thread on one end and a nut
or head upon the other. The wheel can be hung as high or as low as
desired. Hooks can be placed all about the rim and upon the
spokes, in the manner shown, giving room in a small space for the
hanging up of a great many articles. This arrangement is
convenient, also, from the fact that one can swing the wheel about
and bring all articles within reach without moving.
A Secure
Ladder for Yard Work
From The
Register of Rural Affairs, 1868
Ladders are nearly always made with blunt, rounded, or square
ends; and as a consequence, when placed upon a smooth surface,
especially if frozen or icy, there is danger of their slipping or
falling. The lower ends should always be sharp or wedge form. If
much used, they should be shod with iron - the simplest mode of
doing which, is to take an iron strap, bend it, by heating in the
fire or forge, to a sharp angle in the middle, so as to fit the
wedge form of the feet, and then nail it on through holes punched
for the purpose.
A Device
for Picking Up Leaves
From The Rural
New Yorker, 1894
A simple device for
picking up leaves consists of a sheet nailed on two opposite edges
to heavy laths, as shown in the figure above. To use it, the cloth
is laid upon a heap of leaves, the middle of each lath is grasped
and the laths are then brought together under the heap, thus
inclosing more than a sugar barrel solid full at each haul.
A Ladder
Carrier From
The American Agriculturist, 1874
How to Carry a Ladder
- "Farmer W." carried home a long ladder which he had borrowed,
and which was supposed to require four men to carry it. He
balanced the ladder upon his wheelbarrow and lashed the sides of
it to the handles of the barrow; then taking the end of the
ladder, he wheeled it along with comparative ease.
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