Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them: Traditional Farm Tools, Homemade Equipment, and Practical Rural Ingenuity - Softcover

Cobleigh, Rolfe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604595868 ISBN 13: 9781604595864

Verlag: Wilder Publications, 2009

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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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Rolfe Cobleigh was an American agricultural writer and editor associated with American Agriculturist, one of the important periodicals serving farmers and rural readers in the United States. In Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them, Cobleigh drew together practical knowledge from working farm life, presenting useful devices and construction ideas in a direct, accessible form for farmers, smallholders, and mechanically minded readers.His work reflects a period when rural problem-solving depended heavily on adaptation, repair, reuse, and local ingenuity. Rather than treating farming as theory alone, Cobleigh recorded the everyday devices that made barns, fields, gardens, livestock care, hauling, fencing, and household farm work more efficient. That practical emphasis gives his book continuing value for readers interested in traditional agriculture, homesteading, farm history, low-tech design, and the material culture of American rural life.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wilder Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1604595868
• ISBN 13: 9781604595864
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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