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Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them: Traditional Farm Tools, Homemade Equipment, and Practical Rural Ingenuity
A wonderful book for anyone interested in starting their own homestead or small farm. This book will show you how to be self reliant and build the things you'll need. There are more than 200 illustrations showing you how to make handy farm devices. You'll learn about the farmer's workshop and tools, running a grindstone, making a dumb waiter, making a cradle, how to clean a well, how to stake out stock, bee keeping, how to transplant trees, how to build a bridge for a small stream.
204 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2011
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January 15, 2012
Gave it to him and he loves it. Four stars on first, fairly brief, look-through, pending a possible fifth star once we've settled as he plans to actually use some of the instructions. I do love when useful books go out of copyright and get reprinted so that they're more easily found. The depth and breadth of "devices" explained in this...astounding. Lots of farm tricks that we've used in the past (keeping a gate from sagging, for example), lots of simple and inexpensive ones that we'll be using in the future. Full instructions for a cinder block house! Great. He's very happy. Tucked it into a pocket and plans to flip through it in camp during this current hunting trip.
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