St. Augustine's Family Services
PROPERTIES

STOCKS

Here's the original sketch for our stocks ;

Dimensions are in centimetres; all the wood was fairly light so that we could easily carry the stocks about.

( Click the picture for a separate version. )

The final version differed only slightly from the sketch :

1. Changes for easy portability :
   • close the tops of the two stands so that the whole can be lifted by the handles ( just visible on the sketch beneath the outermost "15" dimensions );
   • Don't use the handles on the picture anyway; instead, cut hand-sized holes in the upper plank just below where the handles are shown ( It's easier to remove the upper plank that way, and probably looks better );
   • To stop the upper plank moving sideways, make a hole through it just on the prisoner side of each vertical support, and put a nut-and-bolt through it.
2. Change for comfort : nail blocks of wood just below the leg-holes in the bottom board so that legs aren't resting just on the rather narrow wooden board.

Examples

We used the stocks in one of our services :

• June 2006;

2006 October