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AT kiNQsroN Presented bu Mrr^sfi Fairfield, i-ir'iih, Ontario, Oct. ]973 kiNQSTON ONTARiO CANADA The KDU H and I.ORNE PIERCE COLLECTION ^/ CANADIANA ^lecns University at Kingston ESTABLISHED 1839 Annual Catalogue OF Harvesting Machinery • Frost & Wood MANUFACTURERS OF Front and Rear Cut Mowers Light Steel Harvesters and Binders Horse Hay Rakes Light Reapers Disc and Spring Tooth Harrows Steel Plows and Cultivators HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS : Smith's Falls, Ont LOCAL AQENCIES THROUQHOUT THE DOniNiON Branch Offices and Warehouses : FROST & WOOD, 77 Jarvis St., Toronto, Ont. FWOST &• WOOD, 123 King;,St., London, Ont. FROST & WOOD, 78 St. Paul St., Quebec, Que. FROST & WOOD, 93 St. Germain St., St. John, N.B. FROST & WOOD, Esplanade Place, Truro, N.S. FROST & WOOD, - - Winnipeg, Man. (Grain Exchange BIdg.,) WM. EWING & CO., 142 McGill St., Montreal, Que. A. HORNE & CO., Chariottetown, P.E.i. Bro~diiiSi'arle Printing Co., Toronto 12 6^^/:^^ our goods. R TAKE PLEASURE in again laying before the farmers of Canada, our descriptive catalogue of Harvesting Machinery, which we sincerely hope will be of service. For many years the name of Frost & Wood, in connection with Harvesting Machinery, has l)een well and favorably known throughout the Dominion, and we fully appreciate and thankfully acknowledge the generous support with which we have been favored by the Cana- dian farmers in their steadily increasing demand for During the past few years there has been great progress in the manufacture of this line of machinery, and we have no better evidence of the fact that our implements have taken a leading part in this development than the popular desire for them. Our No. 8 Mower, introduced in the season of '97, met with un- paralleled success everywhere, and firmly established its position as the leading grass cutter in the Canadian market. Our new Three-Apron Binder was severely tested in the crop of '97, with most satisfactory results in all conditions of grain and on all kinds of ground, and we can positively assert that its work has never been surpassed by that of any other binder. We have given, in this catalogue, illustrated descriptions of our various Harvesting Machines, which we ask you to compare with others, and we feel sure that an examination will convince you that we do not go too far in asserting that the Frost & Wood Machines are unsurpassed for strength, lightness of draft, durability, and in all details necessary for good work. Throughout their construction, nothing but the highest grade materials are used, and the finish and workmanship are of the best. Frost & Wood. January ist, 1898. ^-^^A Frost &wood \ No. 8 Mower ! u WITH ROLLER AND BALL BEARINGS Rear View No. 8 Mower K l^r.ACED this Mower n the marke't last year, and its work throughout the entire season more man fulfilled our greatest expectations, and caused 1 demand for it greater than we could possibly fill. During the year it was subjected to most severe tests on all kinds of land, besides having repeatedly met in field trials one or more of our competitors' machines, and we have yet to learn of its failure to do most satisfactory work, or of its defeat by any other machine of either Canadian or American make, or of any defects or faults in its construction. The thousands of farmers who have seen it work, speak of it in the highest terms of praise, and while they can find no fault in it, they are quick to recognize its many points o advantage over all other Mowing Machines, and we know that it is only expressing their sentiments when we say that it is to-day the leading ma- chine of its kind in Canada. FRAME.— The Frame, the foundation of the machine, is tubular and is cast in one piece. Tiiis gives the Mower a solid, well-balanced Frame, that has more than sufficient strength to with- stand the greatest strain to wliioh it will ever he put, .-,nd which has no parts to become WJ^f^f^^ loose or unbolted. ' Plan View of Frost & Wood No. 8 Mower c/5 on f 1 0|» (0 •a a m -4- Reducing Friction T':V i(#© Roller and Ball Bearings.— We were the first amon^ Canadian inaniifactiirers to introduce the feature of Roller and Hall Hearings in a new Mower, properly designed so as to enii)ody this valuable improvement, though some other manufacturers have endeavored to remodel their old mowers for the purpose of inserting Roller Hearings. Those who have not adopted the improvement will, doul)tless, continue to say that Roller Hearings are no good, Imt the fact is, tl.is form of Hearing has come to stay. W6 use these Roller and Ball Bearings to prevent the waste- ful friction of mechanism, which is done i)y changing the sliding !S®|((»'®f Arrangement of Roller and Ball Bearings in Frame of No. 8 contact between the Axle or Shafl and the Journal Box in which it turns, to rolling contact. Ball Bearings have for many years been used with perfect satisfaction in many varieties of machinery, with a great saving of power, besides a saving of wear on the machine ; but, in machinery where there is any considerable weight or strain to be borne, as in heavy shafting, cars, etc., Roller Bearings are used in place of Hall l)earings, and they have now lieen long enough in use to demonstrate their practical value. All farmers will quickly recognize the great value of Roller Bearings in Harvesting Machinery, where the power is limited and a saving of draft means a saving of horse flesh and of wear Rollers in Frame ^^ ^^^ machine parts, and we have made use of them in our No. 8 Mower to the fullest extent that it is possible to do so with advantage. These Roller Bearings, properly con- structed, and arranged in the machine, will prolong its usefulness for many years, but the short and small rollers used on some machines, instead of reducing the friction, increase it, and in a short time become scraped away sufficiently to throw the Axle out of alignment. To avoid this we use large and long Rollers in the Bearings of both the Main Axle, and the Gear Shaft and a Hardened Steel Ball Bearing to take up the thrust at the end of the Gear Shaft. The Rollers are held in -'ace by a malleable Frame, which is so con- Rollers in place in Bearing structed that there can be no friction between it and the rollers • -5— Simple Arrangement of Gears \V'\J f Hlf-K Roller Bearings arc a good • |> \ Y \ / ^'^'"y' '' '^ quite |)ossible, however, •^2|f*lflfj S^ \2\-i to "ver-rate their capacity ; they will w# ■ not, for instance, make a perfect mower out of one tha* is defective in general design and construction, and whatever may be gained in reduction of friction i)y their use may easily he lost by ai unnecessary complication of parts and multiplication of gear wheels and hearings. The Gearing- of our No. 8 Mower is very simple, there are no unnecessary wheels or bearing's ; the power operating the Pitman is transferred from the large Drive Wheels i)y means of only two Gears and their Pinions. We do not claim any striking novelty for this form of Gearing ; there are only a very few distinct types or systems of Gearing, which are used by the different manufacturers of Mowing Machines in various modified forms, but we do believe that there is no more effective and no simpler system than that used on our No. 8 Mower. It consists of a Main Spur Wheel, fixed to the Axle, gearing internally with its -v^-^ Pinion, which is keyed to a short Shaft revolving on anti-friction Roller Hearings. A large Bevel Wheel turns freely on this Shaft, ..nd when connected with the Bevel Pinion, i)y means of a Clutch operated by a very convenient Shifter, communicates the necessary motion to the Pitman through a Bevel Pinion screwed fast to the end of the Long Crank Shaft. By this Handy Gear Shifting Device system of Gearing the Pitman of the Frost Ov: Wood Mower is given a speed greater than that of any other, and on account of the accurately designed and finely fin- ished Gears, the parts work together with an ease and precision that render impossible any lost motion or waste of Long Crank Shaft power, Eo that the Knife starts cutting the instant the Drive Wheels are started, well shielded to prevent the possibility of raised grass l)ecoming wound into it. The (iearing is Frost & Woon, Smiths Kalis, Ont Massawippi, Qlic, Oct. ,j6th. iSq-. Okar Sirs,-- riie N,v 8 (5 ft. cut. roller heaniifrs) Frost & WooJ Mower that we purchaseJ from \ou through your atrent, .Mr. .McKay, iNorth llatle) . has done remarkably well. We cut over 100 tons with it, some on land that li.-id been pastured tor over ton years and was therefore very uneven, yet it cut throusrh everything and without a break. We have, without doubt pven It as severe a test as could be jfiven to a machine, and had it not been made from material of a verv superior quality, would hjive ffiven out. The Foot Lift is fjrand, any youth can have complete control over the Cutter Bar wuh bis foot, which leaves his hands tree tor drivint(^. HavinH^ over thirty years' experience with mowing- m.uhines, we consider this machine the best and easiest runninu one we have h.id. Vours trulv. W. .\. RlCMl'HN .S,- CO -6- ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^♦♦♦♦^^^♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^ Cutting ^pparatu4 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»»»♦»♦♦♦#♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦>♦♦♦ FTKR everything possil)le has been done l)y the use of Roller Hearin;^s, accurate Gearing, etc., to reduce the friction cf working parts, the grass still remaiiis to he cut, and it is this that in most Mowing Machines cv,.i&uir,e the great ir part of the power emiiloycd. In the Frost & Wood No. 8 Mower the Cutting^ Apparatus exemplifies the highest attained excellence in that most important part of the machine, and places it m an unequalled position in its ability to cut any length or ([uality of grass on any surface, as the many important features connected ..ith this part of the machine, such as the sagging of the Knife and the slipping of the grass, caui;ing x 'lending of the Cutter- Har and clor-'ing of th • machine, and other defects fount, m one or another of our competitors' machines, have received our careful attention, and the proper remedy has been applied in each case. Cutter- Bar The No. 8 Cutters as I The Steel Cutter- Bar itself has un- !* usual strength, j being one-half inch thick, in- iii nearly all other is attached to the stead of only /g, mowers. The liar Frame by a hinge, in such a way that it is obliged to follow ihe varying surface of the ground, floating smoothly over all elevations and depressions. The Front Edge is bevelled on the underside to allow it to slide easily over the surface, and this is also aided by the Lift-Spring transferring a portion of the weight of the Cutter-Bar to the Axle. The Bar may be tilled to any angle by means of a very ^^ /\ handy and easily operated Tilting Lever. ^rsa— Tiie Cutter-Bar is provided with either Steel Runners or Wheels, ^/5}^l|j|^L-^ \ \ / /a as shown in iliustration, at the option of the purchaser. (^ JillHlHB^ O' / /'/ How the Cutter-Bar Tilts The Cutter-Bar is fitted with either Wheels or Runners -7 Serrated kftee{ ^eger ^fated^ OlldrdS T^^^ (Buar&S are so designed as to afford great strength and rigidity, \m while, at the same time, dividing the grass and passing over ob- structions with the utmost facility. The bolts by which they are attached pass downward with nuts on the under side, the heads of the bolts being countersunk into the Cutter- Bar so as to leave it perfectly smooth and free from obstruction on top. This is a feature of much importance, as it allows the cut grass to pass clear of the bar quickly, obviating the tendency of the cut grass, under certain conditions, to hang on to the Cutter-Bar, preventing ck^n work. (Plates notched on the edge like a saw) used on this mower, present, however, the most im- portant feature of the Cutting Apparatus. Every farmer linows how much harder his mower works and how poorly it cuts when the Gua-d Plates get dull, with the corners or edges rounded ; the efect of the Serrated Edge of these Guard Plates is to i.eep them always sharp, and, more than this, to hold the grass ...raight and securely against the cutting edge, as the Knife passes Lack and forth over it, thus cutting the finest grass along with the rest, without having it slip away or working itself under the Knife and clogging the machine. The Serrated Plates also enable a somewhat dull Knife to do cleaner work than a sharp Knife would do with a common smooth edge Guard Plates. Hence the Frost & Wood No. 8 Mower will run longer than any other, without the necessity of sharp- ening" the Knife, but when that is necessary the Knife may be easily removed by the operator, and, after being ground as easily replaced. The Knife, similarly with other parts of the Cutting Apparatus, needs only to be compared with those furnished by some of our competitors to show its marked superiority. Not only is the steel back, to which the sections are riveted, much heavier and stiffer than is usually found on the Knives oT other mowers, l)ut the whole Knife is of the best pos- sible design and material, being made of steel throughout ; even the Knife-head being made of Solid Steel Drop Forged, instead of cast or malleable iron as in others. Shear Cut of No. 8 Mower o Serrated Steel Leger Plate (••'"11 size) Knife vxrUBS^ The Frost & Wood No. 8 Mower is the only Mower in Canada using a Forged Steel Knifehead and Bearing- connecting ths Pitman with the Knife. Forged Steel Knife Head and Bearing The Forged Steel costs several times as much as i-he common kind of Knifehead, i)ut we have spared no expense to make this mower as perfect as possible in every detail, and giving it the greatest strength and durability. The Knife is hel\ firmly against the Steel Wearing Plates at the buck, causing a cut as per- fect and close as that of a pair of shears. Hand and Foot Spring Lift | It is probable that the feature which more than any other will at once give our No. 8 Mower the most marked advantage over all competitors, consists of its great convenience in handling. The device for lifdng the Cutter-Bar, both by hand and foot power, together or separately, is pronounced by all who have seen it to be a distinct advance on anything hitherto brought out in this line. The power of the Coil Spring, by which the weight of the Cutter- Bar is counterbalanced, is applied in the right way and just at the right place to have the best effect without causing undue pressure on the pole, or throvvinVlth Improved Rollep and Ball Bearings ' / \ f^IE NATURAL TENDENCY in the manufacture of all lines of goods is towards ai unprovement; experiments and investigations are constantly being made by manu- ^^1^ facturers with the aim of bringing their products to the highest state of perfection, but the uitroduction of anything new does not, by any means, discredit the worth or ability of that which was previously offered to the public. We have now been building binders for thirteen years, and no year has passed without seeing some improvements on the machine of the year before, and while we feel safe in saying that no binder ever built by us has failed to do good work, the possibilities of decreased draft, increased capacity, simplicity of mechanism, light- ness and strength, have urged constant experiment and trials of new devices, resulting in the continual improvement of our machines. Last year we built a number of machines after the pattern of the most improved and popular binder in America, manufactured at Springfield, Ohio, the patent rights for which we have secured for the Dominion of Canada. From the admirable results obtained throughout :he season of 1897, we know that this binder stands unequalled in lightness of draft and m efficiency in all conditions of crop and on all conditions of ground, by any other in Canada. All Its parts are so constructed that they give the greatest efficiency with the least power and are arranged for the convenience and ease of the operator. The lightness of the machine, the Force Feed Elevator with its gradual slope, the Eccentric Wheel driving the binding mechanis'm, and the accurately working binder parts, assisted by our improved Roller and Ball Bearings, make it the lightest draft binder in the field ; while the Steel Drive Wheel with staggered spokes. Rolled Steel Platform Bottom, and Solid Steel Frame make it a machine of wonderful strength. FrdrnC '^^^ ^^'" ^™^^^ ^^'^'^^ supports the Gear and Pitman Shafts, is constructed of ^ Angle and Bar Steel, with long flat laps at the corners, and can neither break, wear out, nor twist out of shape. Light Stee! Binder No. 2 5 and 6 ft. cut wf^^mmMm^mm •\y^ti Platform The Platform is constructed of sheet steel rolled perfectly level and is attached to the Main Frame by n very secure joint of steel bars which prev_iits the Finger Bar from sagging backwards or the Cutter Bar and Pitman froia getting out of line. It is formed with the view of cutting as '-' -'^e to the ground as may be desired. The devices for raising, lowering and tilting allow the .itform to almost graze tiie ground without having too steep a slant, and in connection with the reel, this low position is of the greatest service in handling very short or tangled grain. -17- 'Wheels MIK FROST & WOOD MAIN DRIVE WHEEL is made of steel throughout ; it is light in weight, yet has remarkable strength. The Rim is made extra wide with edges bev- eled inward to prevent its pick- ing up sand and gravel. The sproc- ket wheel is very large, possessinggreat strength, and while easily separted from the Main Wheel in case of l)reakage, is so firmly secured to it as to give it the effect of one solid Main Drive Wheel in Frame wheel. | % Power is it to the mechanism by means of a strong and compact endless chain. RAISE AND LOWER DEVICES. -In order to raise and lower the greater weight earned by the Main Wheel, we use the Worm Gear and Crank, which is self locking both up and down, and for regulating the height of the Divider End, we make use of a very convenient and easy Lever Lift, illustrated herewith. The Lever is so jointed that it will droj) down out of the way, leaving no Standing point to catch the grain. transmitted from Outside Divider and Jointed Lever When the Frost & Wood Binder is lowered for cutting short or lodged grain and the Binder moved forward to suit it in tying the bundle, the Main Wheel is brought forward in the Frame, and likewise, when the machine is raised for cutting tall grain and the Binder is moved back to suit it the Main Wheel is carried back ir the Frame, so that at all times the Main Wheel is under the centre of the load and the machine is perfectly balanced, and on acccjunl of its being so low ■ ' there is no burden thrown on the Raise and Lower Device on Main Wheel ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ -18- Lo>A/ «^ «^ «^ # F THE many features which distinguish this machine from all others, one which stands out pre-eminently is the Force- ^^ I ^ g ■ ^^ Fxied Elevator. The Force Feed principle I^I^^^^IQ 1^ :^^ «'ves the Elevators an easy Slope and as a tight grip on the grain is not necessary it also allows of a wide space between the Elevator Canvases, which prevents all possibility of the squeezing and shelling of the grain so common in other three-apron binders, where the two elevator aprons must be close together in order to raise the grain. By this arrangement the elevation is stopped just before the top of the Main Wheel is reached, and then by deflect- ing the upper canvas the direction is changed, and the grain, no matter how heavy or how light, is carried over the Main Wheel in a smooth and even stream, and is gently forced down clear into the grasp of the Packers without being thrown or rubbed against the Binder Cover. The advantages of this low elevation are many: the centre of gravity is brought very low, making it possible to run the machine on a very steep grade ; there is no strain thrown on the horses when the machine is tilted, the strain on all the working parts is very light and the work is easy, and the seat is brought so low that it is a very small matter for the driver to get on and off. ^ The Force Feed Elevators Wide C^rv^^S The elevator has not been cut off at the rear, leaving the heads of the grain to drag along unsupported on chains and wheels, but is very wide, and this, with the low elevation, gives the Frost