HARNESS REPAIRING - 1921 - INTRODUCTION - THE development of vocational agricultural education work in secondary schools under the stimulation of the Federal Vocational Act has especially directed attention during the past few years to practical farm shop work for boys enrolled in these agricultural courses. There has been a rapid movement of this work away from the former manual training hases which characterized it in many ways in the early stages of ts development. There has been an attempt to determine what tools, rhat constructions and what repairs are essential and desirable to , he vocation of farming. It is expected that the farm shop work mill nvolve the use of such tools as are justifiable on the farm, in such onstruction and such repair work as the farmer would ordinarily mgage mith profit. In its first stages this work was largely woodshop work with forge mork added in some places. Lately it has been supplemented by recognition of the need for harness repair work, soldering repair - work and general construction and repair work involving the use of tools designed to work cold metal. Rope work is passing from the stage of many and involved knots and splices to the selection of knots and splices significant in farm practice. The authors efforts in this book are additions to the farm shop work presented in his books Agricultural Woodworking and Farm Woodwork along the line of harness repair. Many teachers, who have seen the necessity of the introduction of mork of this kind, have been at a loss as to what equipment should be provided and what exercises could fmd justification in the vocation of farming. The authors contribution in this book mill go far in aiding the teacher in settling these questions. Many years of experience in teaching, coupled with a broad contact mith the actual field of farming, make his point of view particularly sound. His technical training has enabled him to put up a body of information in this book that should be peculiarly useful to the vocational teacher of agriculture who is concerned with farm shop work -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Page Harness Repairing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9 Slaking a Harness Thread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-14 Making a Stitched Splice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-19 Attaching a Buckle with a Conway Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 . Attaching a Buckle n-ith Rivets and the Riveting Machine . . . . . . . . . PI. 21 Replacing a Hanie Clip on a Tug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21. 2 2 Repairing a Trace or Trace and Tug with Hanle Clips and Idink . . . . . 2 2. 23 Replacing a Broken Hanle Staple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 . 25 se of Buckle Shields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . i 2 , 6 Repairing the End of a Trace with a 11-rot Concord Clill . . . . . . . . . . . 75 . irtaching Heel Chain to Trace with a Hame Clill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Repairing a Trace and Tug with a Trace Square and Two TVrot Concord Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27. 2 3 Splicing a Trace with a Trace Splicer or a Metal Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . 28. 29 Repairing Bottom Enc of Hanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...