Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them |  | Author: Rolfe Cobleigh
Publisher: General Books LLC
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Pages: 114
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.2
ISBN: 1151851639
EAN: 9781151851635
ASIN: 1151851639
Publication Date: January 3, 2010
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Amazon.com Review
Originally published in 1909, "Handy Farm Devices" is more than an engaging trip down memory lane. For any small farmer or homesteader, the techniques and devices described in detail are just as useful, durable, and fully functional today as they were 75 years ago. You will learn to build a portable chicken coop, a stone boat (for moving stone), a lightweight orchard ladder, gates that don't sag, and a handy wood splitter, as well as rudimentary farm structures, well houses, bee hives, a baby's cradle, a cheese press and much more. The charming, turn-of-the-century language and useful and inspirational quotes from Shakespeare, the Bible, Bacon, Longfellow and many others make this book a delight to read. --Mark A. Hetts
Product Description
Publisher: New York, Orange Judd company Publication date: 1912 Subjects: Agricultural machinery Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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 This book will save you both time and money. August 11, 1998
David Lilligren (Sandstone, Minnesota, USA)
135 out of 138 found this review helpful
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!
Book is worth its weight in GOLD! March 2, 2000
Mark A Griffith
73 out of 76 found this review helpful
I bought this book on 29-Feb-00 because I am inheriting a farm in West Virginia. I read through it last night and am 110% convinced that the ideas in this book will cut my workload in half and make my life better when I move to the farm. I have placed 27 yellow stickies in this book; one for each idea that I will be able to use in the coming year. If you own a farm, buy this book!
Pure practicality & lots of nostalgia October 31, 2001
Jeffrey W. Behm (Belle Mead, NJ USA)
34 out of 36 found this review helpful
Handy Farm Devices is a really great book if you'd like to read about early 20th century practical living. There's no fluff here; just practical tips for simple living, and lots of good ideas for fixing/making things around the house.
Excellent, practical, book March 1, 2004
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is filled with tons of little tricks and devices to make farm life easier. Much of the information is old and so it may not be of as much use to someone with a high tech farm, but if you still do some things the old fashioned way, this book probably has something that can help you. And even if you can't use the stuff, it's interesting to read.
An asset to the self sufficient dreamer! November 17, 2005
S. Williams (CA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Yes this is a ver valuable book! Dont want to or just cant afford to buy or rent expensive machinery to do the basic farm duties many have done before the age of technology? THIS IS A MUST!!
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