Abstract: The invention is a method and apparatus, powered solely by the muscles of a single male adult during a working day; for bundling cut firewood, or the like. The apparatus is located under and over the top of a rugged rectangular work bench. The frame is constructed of welded metal rods, about an inch and a quarter in diameter. The operator can load the apparatus onto a flat bed of a motor vehicle for transport over open roads and across country. The operator faces a full length raceway below the top of the long panel. A lever arm protudes from the raceway toward the operator. A pivot is welded across the raceway, a foot or so back of the pannel. A loose fitting sleeve cover is over th pivot. The lever arm is welded to the loose fitting sleeve cover, its fulcrum. A chain linkage is welded to an end of the lever arm and to the foot of the elevator rod. The chain linkage forms a loop between the two.

Abstract: Apparatus for converting automobile roof top surfboard carriers of the type that has a pair of roof spans in parallel relationship fastened in the rain gutters, into ski carriers. A conversion unit having a metal tube with crimped ends, with several apertures for pin mechanisms in those ends, is bolted to each roof span. The metal tube has a U-bolt fastened at its center. A strip of hot rolled mild steel is slideably attached to each leg of the U-bolt. The strip of steel has a plate depending from one end. There are several apertures for pin mechanisms in the plate. The strip of mild steel has lengthwise shallow bow which is about one and a half inches deep at its maximum depth. Between the plate and the U-bolt aperture, a strip of high density rubber depends from the bow. The operator spreads the skis over the metal tubes of the roof spans and under the bowed strip of steel. He presses down upon the plate. The bows flatten over the skis. They become partially embedded in rubber.

Abstract: Improvements in a capotasto, also known as a capo, which in its improved form is a variable cord-forming capo, for use in playing stringed musical instruments such as guitars, banjos, and mandolins. On the pin of the device are a number of pivotable clamping discs with a flattened surface on the periphery which hold selected strings against a fret, or release the same when the clamping disc is further rotated. The pin is held in place over the fret board and strings of the instrument by a side-support member fastened to a resilient strap on which there is a series of longitudinally placed eyelets. The resilient strap is placed under the neck of the instrument and holds the pin with its clamping discs above the strings by tension on the resilient strap by selection of a particular eyelet through which to pass the distal end of the pin.