The following link is to a web page with a cornacopia of practical farm devices that can be made with basic carpentry and elementary metal fabrication and blacksmithing. They are devices developed by farmers prior to the 1950's the contents include; [FONT=Times New Roman,Georgia,Times][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Georgia,Times][/FONT] Contents by Chapters [FONT=Times New Roman,Georgia,Times]1. Workshop and Tools The Farmer's Workshop Running the Grindstone A Homemade Anvil Making a New Tool How to Make a Shaving Horse A Convenient Farm Horse A Wire Splicer Serviceable Homemade Level To Make a Handle Stay On A Tool Box Requisite Soldering 2. The Steel Square Lumber Rule The Brace Rule The Octagon Scale The Miter Box Truing the Square Making a Straight Edge Rafters Stair Stringer The 47th Problem of Euclid The Rule of 6, 8 and 10 Angles Plotting Angles 3. In and Around the House The Step-Saving Dumb Waiter Rack for Preserves Transforming a Washstand Homemade Dresser Kitchen Window Cabinet To Let in More Light A Barrel Cradle To Protect Baby from Hot Stove A Box for Clothes Scoops from Tin Cans A Homemade Folding Table A Homemade Butter Worker Home Cheesemaking Cutting the Curd Pressing and Curing Washes While Reading Tread Power in the Dairy A Lamp for Cooking Hot Water All Night 3. In and Around the House (part II) How to Cut Bread Even Homemade Water Cooler Keep Food Cool in Summer A Cooler Dummy An Outdoor Closet Homemade Refrigerator Iceless Butter and Milk Cooler A Ventilated Pump Platform Cleaning a Well Dog Power for Pump Filter for Cistern Water A Handy Water Filter Delivering Mail by Trolley Beauty in a Barrel Storage Bin for Vegetables An Inexpensive Cellar Clothesline Up and Down A Clothes Horse A Toilet Closet Revolving Cellar Shelf Water Supply for Farmhouse Installation and Operation Experience with Water Supply System Warning Against Fire Where to Hang a Fire Ladder 4. Barns and Stock A Handy Feed Basket Make the Horse Eat Slowly Stalls Better than Stanchions Good Ties for Cows Handy Calf-feeding Device Management of Kicking Cows A Handy Milking Stool The Ever Ready Stool Cheap Milking Stool Keep Stools Clean A Useful Stock Cart How to Stake out Stock Feed Box for Field Cheap Sheds of Straw Feed Trough for Sheep A Novel Feed Rack A Wheelbarrow Sheep Trough Packing the Fleece Easy to Handle Heavy Hogs Heating Water for Hog Killing A Farm Slaughterhouse Keep Pigs out of Feed Trough Movable House for Breeding Sows Well-arranged Hog Lots Handy Pig Catcher Stairs for the Barn Hang Up the Lantern Arrangement for Weighing A Barn Windlass Grain Box Easy to Empty Easily Constructed Grain Bins A Convenient Barn Truck Takes a Man's Place A Handy Bag Holder A Corn Husking Rack A Homemade Feed Cutter Saw Root Cutter Homemade Cabbage Cutter A Substantial Driveway 5. Poultry and Bees Feeding Dry Ground Grain Keeping the Water Clean A Watering Rack for Hens Drinking Fountain Folding Chicken Roost A Good Poultry Nest Two Coops from a Barrel A Box Chicken Coop A Low Poultry Run A Portable Chicken Coop A Homemade Brooder Movable Brooder House A Very Cheap Henhouse A Daylight Chicken Catcher A Simple Hawk Trap Scare Away Crows and Hawks Practical Hives and Hive Making Device for Extracting Beeswax Self-feeder for Bees 6. Garden and Orchard An Iron Hoop Trellis Plant Supports of Barrel Hoops A Folding Trellis Easy Way to Pole Beans Trellis that Stands Alone Protecting Newly Set Plants Making the Hotbed Making Permanent Hotbeds Heat for Hotbeds Cold Frames and Their Management A Hand Garden Cultivator A Convenient Garden Stool Watering Seed Soil Made Easy Catching Owls and Hawks Moving a Large Tree Transplanting Trees Homemade Fruit Picker A Truss Ladder Orchard Ladder on Wheels Convenient Sorting Tables 7. Field and Wood Portable Hay Derrick A Wire Tightener Fence Wire Reel Safe Way to String Barbed Wire A Boxed Stone Boat A Homemade Road Roller An Old-fashioned Drogue A Ditching Scraper Bridge for a Small Stream Dam for Farm Pond Sowing Seed Evenly Berry Crate Carrier Handy Loading Device Rack for Hauling Fodder Pulling Fence Posts One Way to Pull Stumps Simple Land Measure Storing Water Getting a Supply of Fuel Simplest of All Camping Tents 8. Gates and Doors Keeping a Gate from Sagging An Easily Opened Gate A Gate that Never Sags A Cheap Gate A Simple Farm Gate An Easily Regulated Gate Gate to Overcome Snowdrifts A Time Saver Keep the Gate Open Good Bars for the Farm Durable Floating Fence Fence Across a Stream Temporary Sheep Fence Fastening Heavy Doors Hold the Barn Doors Shut Fastening the Stable Door Homemade Door Latch 9. When We Build Important Points in House Building A Very Convenient House Building a Block House A Practical Round Barn A Well-Arranged Barn A Handy Small Barn The Farmer's Icehouse Location and Building Framing the Icehouse Ice and Milk Houses Combined Small Greenhouses Material for Construction Set Glass in Warm Weather Covering with Hotbed Sash Wire Fence Corn Crib How to Lay a Floor An Inexpensive Veranda 9. When We Build (part II) Concrete on the Farm Mixing the Cement Making Concrete Blocks To Operate the Machine Blocks of Different Shapes Another Style of Mold Regulating the Height of the Blocks Filling the Molds Mixing Cement for Brick Reinforcement for Concrete Making a Frostproof Cellar A Summer Cool Room A Concrete Smokehouse Laying a Concrete Floor Making a Concrete Walk Cementing a Cistern Wall Special Uses for Cement A Time-honored Handy Device [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Georgia,Times]10. Worth Knowing[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Georgia,Times] Freezing Ice in Blocks Saving the Seed Corn Rack for Seed Corn Drying and Keeping Seed Corn Weight Lifter Strong and Simple Wagon Jack A Jack for Heavy Wagons A Cheap Wheelbarrow A Wheelbarrow Cheap and Strong How to Hang a Kettle A Snow Plow Temporary Smoking Device Homemade Heater and Cooker Use for a Tough Log A Handy Wood Splitter How to Split Wood A Pulling Hammer Mounting the Farm Anvil Sorting Potatoes Quickly Handling Potatoes Easily Cutting Seed Potatoes Another Seed Potato Cutter How to Test Seed Corn Reading the Results Killing Insects in Grain Binding Pins for Hay Combined Drag and Harrow How to Handle a Rope Tying Some Useful Knots Carrying a Barrel Made Easy Harness Clamp 10. Worth Knowing (part II) Substitute for Pipe Wrench Market Wagon Conveniences Carrying Butter to Town To Sharpen Scissors How to Paper a Room Choose Judiciously Paste and Tools Trimming and Cutting Hanging the Paper Practical and Economical The Farm Blacksmith Shop Why the Shop Pays Blacksmithing Not Hired Man's Work Horseshoe Lever How to Paint Tin Roofs Preserving Wood To Preserve Shingles To Render Wood Fireproof Fireproof Wash for Shingles Petrified Wood How to Season Wood Bleaching Wood Wood Polish Furniture Polish Size Stains Dark Wood Stain Red Stain for Wood Liquid Glue Cement for Metal and Glass Cement for Broken China Cement for Crockery and Glass Mending Glassware Armenian Cement Japanese Cement Roofing Preparation Fire Kindlers Mending Pipes with Water On To Join Water Pipes Welding Metals Grinding Tools[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman,Georgia,Times][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman,Georgia,Times][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman,Georgia,Times]Handy Farm Devices - Cobleigh - ToC [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Georgia,Times] Their homepage has a mine of useful links also Small Farms Library - Journey to Forever [/FONT]
Thank you Chell, I will be adding this to my prepping bible. Some things I knew about, there are some great pieces of info in here! Again, thank you!
I will print it all off in PDF tomorrow if there is some way for me to load it up on the site, to prevent ling degradation...
The PDF version of the entire book can be found here: http://www.survivalmonkey.com/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=61
Thanks Falcon Thank you Falcon, that will be a must have reference for many people.....no need to reinvent some of the wheels already invented by pioneers well before our time
No problem guys, we use Adobe Pro at work and it is a neat function. I can print literally anything I want direct to PDF. I have transferred this to my "secure" Thumb drive which will go into my faraday box. I have also printed it and given it a home in a 3 ring binder for my prepper library. Thank you Chelloveck, for the find!
This book was one of my Christmas presents last year,lots of entertainment even if I never build anything out of it.I recommend it highly.
Like Life Insurance It's like life insurance.......it's there when needed......just don't lose the policy document.
Another good book to go along with this is "Homemade Contrivances and How to Make Them" by Skyhorse Publishing,621 pages of..well,homemade contrivances.1001 labor saving devices for farm,garden,dairy and workshop.This was also last years' present,but it may have been birthday,don't remember.Again,lots of info,well worth the read.
