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Figure 6. Main frame with two wheels attached, the left wheel is bolted into the middle of the three holes, the right is bolted
to the innermost of the three holes making the left end the rear of the hoe.
4.1.3.
Sight guide
The sight guide consists of a 150 mm long fully threaded bolt (screw), one standard nut, two Nynex
locknuts and the sight bar (which has four holes at one end) as shown in Figure 4. It screws into one of
the unused wheel bolt holes at the front of the main frame. The bolt can be put in the frame with its
head between the frames as in Figure 4 or with the head outside the frame (next to the wheel). The
former is easier to access for horizontal adjustment, the latter makes vertical adjustment easier.
4.1.4.
Handles
1.
Place the frame with wheels attached on some flat ground.
2.
Assemble the handle clamps as per the photos in Figure 7 but don’t tighten the nuts on the (coach)
bolts.
Figure 7. Handle clamps.
3.
Take a pair of frame clamps, and place them one on either side of the main frame with the bolts
inwards. As a suggested starting position put the clamps just behind the front wheels as shown in
Figure 2. Then, putting the hand grips of the handles on the ground (so you don't have to lift them
up), slide the legs of the handle clamps into the slots in the frame clamps (if you have bolted the
