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| | Product Details | | Author: | Rolfe Cobleigh | | Paperback: | 290 pages | | Publisher: | The Lyons Press | | Publication Date: | February 01, 1996 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1558214321 | | Package Length: | 6.93 inches | | Package Width: | 4.49 inches | | Package Height: | 0.79 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.44 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 34 reviews |
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141 of 145 found the following review helpful:
 This book will save you both time and money. Aug 11, 1998
By David Lilligren
"Farmer Dave"
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!
78 of 82 found the following review helpful:
Book is worth its weight in GOLD! Mar 02, 2000
By Mark A Griffith
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!
38 of 40 found the following review helpful:
Pure practicality & lots of nostalgia Oct 31, 2001
By Jeffrey W. Behm
"Jeff B."
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.
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Where we're heading? Oct 18, 2007
By M. Clifford
My interest in this book comes from a growing concern about Peak Oil. When energy is no longer cheap or plentiful, how will we adapt? One way to approach this question is to look ahead and see how technologies such as solar and wind energy can help. Turns out, however, that the feasibility of these technologies is also dependent to a large degree upon plentiful, cheap oil. So, in addition to looking ahead, it's probably a good idea to look to the past. How did people of a few generations back manage such simple tasks as refrigeration (for example), without relying upon constant availability of electricity and fossil fuel?
This book is a good resource for those who want to investigate this question. It offers many examples of very practical implements, most of which can be built with simple tools, some basic skills, and hard work. "Hard work" may be the most operant item in that list, and throughout the book are sprinkled brief aphorisms encouraging one to embrace the work ethic: "the manly part is to do with might and main what you can (Emerson)"; "keep your shop and your shop will keep you"; "Taste the joy that springs from labor (Longfellow)".
Good illustrations; spare, to-the-point writing st
19 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Excellent, practical, book Mar 01, 2004
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.
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