Old-Fashioned Labor-Saving Devices (eBook)

Homemade Contrivances and How to Make Them

Skyhorse Publishing (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
640 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63220-075-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The practical, intriguing American devices contained in this handbook come from an era long before milking machines, pesticide sprayers, and industrial hay balers. Designed to speed and simply everything from making your own butter to protecting drain outlets to organizing and storing tools, the easy-to-make mechanisms youll find here can be just as useful for todays farmer as they were for frontier homesteaders.Discover how to transform odds and endsscraps of lumber from old building projects, leftover sections of barbed wire, the box spring sitting in the atticinto handy household implements. With the illustrated instructions here, you can make a movable nest for hens, a ribless boat, a contraption to extricate a mired animal, a farm cart with movable racks for larger roads, a wire fence tightener, a fruit picker, a grindstone set and frame, and much more. This book is perfect for the rancher, farmer, craftsmananyone with a love of the rural life.

Autor

Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. is an independent publisher of both nonfiction and fiction based in New York City.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.1.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: 40th anniversary • acre farm • backyard • Barrel • bed gardening • Boats • bolted • books on cleats • books on farm animals • books on garden beds • books on imaginary people • books on nests • books on preppers • books on racks • books on raised gardens boo • books on self-sufficiencies • books on self-sustainabilities • books on step instructions • books on text drawings • canning • chicken coop • Chickens • chock • cleats • coffee table • composting • Cows • Crafts • crop rotation • crops • electricity • exceeded • Farm Animal • farming • fastened • fastening • garden beds • Gehring • go-to • hobby farm • Homestead • homesteader carpentry • homesteading • imaginary person • informative text • Keel • manure • Movable • nests • OATS • organic garden • Organic Gardening • Pottery • Prepper • quarter • Rack • raise animals • raised bed • raised garden • raising animals • raising livestock • self sufficiency • Self-Sufficiency • self sufficient • self-sufficient lifestyle • self-sustainability • Seymour • stanchions • step instructions • stirrup • Straw • sufficient life • Sustainable Lifestyle • text drawing • vegetables • weeds • Wire
• ISBN-10: 1-63220-075-9 / 1632200759
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63220-075-4 / 9781632200754