Old-fashioned Labor-saving Devices: Homemade Contrivances And How To Make Them
by Skyhorse Publishing /
2015 / English / EPUB
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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 you’ll find here can be just as useful for today’s
farmer as they were for frontier homesteaders.
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 you’ll find here can be just as useful for today’s
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.
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.