Handy Farm Devices: And How to Make Them
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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, how to keep a gate from sagging, important points in house building, how to build small greenhouses, advice on the best way to split wood, black smithing, and much, much more in this thrift-conscious and environmentally wise book.
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70 of 74 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This reprint of the 1909 classic should be on the shelf of every serious homesteader. Farming is hard work, and this book will teach you how to save both time and money to get the job done. In this little gem you'll learn how to make your own tools for your workshop, how to build things for around the house, for the barns, and for your livestock, in addition to other devices for your garden and orchard, including a section that discusses fence-making and gate-making. Several pages are devoted to building a farmhouse (including the floor plan for my wife's "dream house"), barns, and other outbuildings. This book also makes for very entertaining reading. Peppered throughout are worthwhile quotes from famous (and not-so-famous) farmers from the past. I'm glad I found this book. I hope you will be, too!
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having bought this book partly based on its recommendation here, I was disappointed. It is an American diy book from 1909 when large projects like pulling up trees were done with a team of horses and small jobs around the house utilized discarded barrel hoops. That would be acceptable if the farm devices were indeed handy and well-designed, but they aren't. The drawings look like images from Dorothy's farm in Kansas in The Wizard of Oz; they aren't very practical, either (a bicycle-powered clothes washer, a corn-husking rack?). The section on how to build your own reinforced-concrete beams would be dangerous if anyone were to take it seriously. The so-called 'dream house' reminded me of the Bates Motel, in Psycho. There's a very long explanation of Pythagoras' Theorem, using a diagram with little squares.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is so old and dated that it really has no relevance for today at all, from a historic perspective it has some value, to look back at how rural type odds and ends were made, and thrift being used to convert disused equipment to functioning mechanical aids.
The book is poorly laid out and really it is some old publication put together in a flash new cover and publishers trying to cash in on the public interest in self sufficiency and the like.
In short, I regret buying this book, which is unusual as I love books and I can usually justify their purchase.
The book is poorly laid out and really it is some old publication put together in a flash new cover and publishers trying to cash in on the public interest in self sufficiency and the like.
In short, I regret buying this book, which is unusual as I love books and I can usually justify their purchase.
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not this edition whatever you do
If you read the detail about this edition you will find it to be OCR with no illustrations, unfortunately due to the type of material the OCR is really bad, and the text is of... Read more
Published 12 months ago by chrisjbarnes
Entertaining source of ideas
I also think this old-fashioned book is worth a place on the bookshelf of a serious homestead. It is worth dipping into occasionally to remind you that you don't have to buy... Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2009 by C. G. Boden
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