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Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them (Paperback)

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Paperback: 290 pages
Publisher: The Lyons Press; Reprint edition (1 Feb 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1558214321
ISBN-13: 978-1558214323
Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.4 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book will save you both time and money., 11 Aug 1998

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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!

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2.0 out of 5 stars An American Curiosity, 23 Aug 2008

By	Jeremy Hawker (Norway) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Having bought this book partly because of 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.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not a good investment, 17 Dec 2009

By	Mr. A. D. Luke "taswegian" (Tasmania Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars 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

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