SHEEP-FEEDING TROUGH before cutting the tenons.
2f
from the end
is
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The Hne squared
shoulder.
f from
called the shoulder;
shoulder, square a line across, and another,
across this
if from the
Measure
f
on each side of the middle line, and gauge lines between the two cross lines just drawn, as in Fig. 48. Lay out on both
"^
^
d^C-
I
l-L
?."• K s-i
H-
surfaces.
^
Cutting the
12.
tenons.
—
First,
bore
three Y' holes inside the lines marking the j holes, r
and
1*1
1
irom both
Sides.
cut
first,
hole
is
3"
chisel out Fig. 48.
'-ri
1
as
he
— Mortise
and Tenon Joint.
the piece will not be so likely to split the tenons were cut first. Second,
would be if saw from the edges along the shoulder from a to by smooth to ^ then rip from up the edges with the chisel; gauge l'^ from the edges of the and chamfer with the ends, as
it
<:
;
plane (Fig. 49). 13. Fig. 49.
— Cutting
the
Tenon.
The wedges are
laid
off
long and f thick and taperBoth ends ing from lY^ to ''
2J''
f
.
on three sides, as shown in the drawing. 14. Saw and plane on four sides. Fit the tenon of the 15. Trimming holes for wedges. brace into the mortise of the upright support and drive are chamfered
—
FARM SHOP WORK.
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