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

Publisher: Wilder Publications, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Rolfe Cobleigh was an American agricultural writer and editor associated with American Agriculturist in the early twentieth century. His work focused on practical farm methods, rural problem solving, homemade equipment, and the everyday mechanics of farm life. In Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them, Cobleigh collected useful plans, tips, devices, and adaptations for farmers who needed reliable, low-cost solutions for livestock care, field work, barns, gardens, fences, tools, vehicles, and household farm tasks.Cobleigh's writing belongs to the practical agricultural tradition that served working farmers before the rise of modern industrial equipment and mass-market hardware. His books remain useful to readers interested in homesteading, hobby farming, self-sufficient living, DIY farm tools, traditional rural skills, and the history of American agriculture. The value of his work lies in its plain usefulness: it shows how earlier farmers solved problems with available materials, mechanical sense, and close knowledge of daily farm needs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wilder Publications
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604595868
• ISBN 13: 9781604595864
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204