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Drawing of End Gate of Cattle Rack.
(The holes for the lower end-gate rod are not shown. They should be bored at the proper height to admit the end-gate rod of the wagon box.)
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Laying out and sawing timbers for stanchion. A stanchion is an arrangement of bars for fastening cattle in a stall by locking timbers around their necks so they cannot get away, and yet giving them considIn sawing the braces a, a, erable freedom of motion. you can save considerable lumber by laying them out in one piece instead of using two pieces each 4' 6" long. In this way you save the difference between 6' ()" and 9'. The rest of the timbers are laid out as 4.
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(See Fig. 102.)
In assembling the stanchion,
first
nail the
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bottom crosspieces. The two braces a, a, are spiked to the bottom planks and to the two uprights. The two movable timbers h, by are fastened by spiking with one spike in the lower end of outside pieces to the top and