Homemade contrivances and how to make them, 1001 labor-saving devices for farm, garden, dairy, and workshop
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Homemade contrivances and how to make them, 1001 labor-saving devices for farm, garden, dairy, and workshop
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Homemade contrivances and how to make them
Oclc number
82470907
Sub title
1001 labor-saving devices for farm, garden, dairy, and workshop
Summary
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 simplify 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 ends - scraps of lumber from old building projects, leftover sections of barbed wire, the box spring sitting in the attic - into 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 loads, a wire fence tightener, a fruit picker, a grindstone set and frame, and much more. This book is a boon for the rancher, farmer, craftsman - anyone with a love of the rural life.--COVER
Table Of Contents
Farm conveniences -- Farm appliances : Racks, mangers, stanchions and troughs ; Vehicles, rollers, harrows and markers ; Small tools and appliances ; Appliances for the barn, pasture and dairy ; Wells, pump, cisterns and filters ; Appliances for handling hay and corn fodder ; Stump-pullers, derricks and slings ; Preparing and handling fertilizers ; Appliance for the garden and orchard ; Appliance for slaughtering hogs and curing the meat -- Fences, gates and bridges : Rail and other primitive wood fences ; Stone and sod fences ; Board fences ; Picket fences ; Barb-wire fence ; Fences of barb wire and boards ; Hedges ; Portable fences and hedges ; Fences for streams and gullies ; Making and setting posts ; Gates and fastenings ; Wickets and stiles ; Fence law ; Country bridges and culverts
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