Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them: Traditional Farm Tools, Homemade Equipment, and Practical Rural Ingenuity - Hardcover

Cobleigh, Rolfe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1515434613 ISBN 13: 9781515434610

Publisher: Wilder Publications, 2018

Synopsis

Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them is a practical early twentieth-century guide to farm ingenuity, homemade tools, barnyard improvements, and self-reliant rural workmanship. Written by Rolfe Cobleigh, associate editor of American Agriculturist, the book gathers hundreds of devices, plans, contrivances, and labour-saving ideas for the working farm: gates, troughs, racks, carts, handles, fences, harness conveniences, poultry equipment, stable fittings, garden aids, and many other useful improvements. The 1912 Orange Judd printing identifies the book as illustrated and gives the original copyright date as 1909.

Cobleigh's book belongs to a practical tradition in which farmers, homesteaders, and rural mechanics solved problems with local materials, careful observation, and plain construction rather than expensive manufactured equipment. Its value now is both functional and historical: it preserves the everyday engineering of American farm life before full mechanisation, while still offering ideas of interest to readers of homesteading, sustainable agriculture, old farm tools, rural history, and traditional do-it-yourself craft. Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them is a useful reference for collectors, historians, smallholders, makers, and readers interested in the practical intelligence of earlier farm life.

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About the Author

Rolfe Cobleigh was an American agricultural writer and editor associated with American Agriculturist, one of the important periodicals serving farmers and rural readers in the United States. In Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them, Cobleigh drew together practical knowledge from working farm life, presenting useful devices and construction ideas in a direct, accessible form for farmers, smallholders, and mechanically minded readers.His work reflects a period when rural problem-solving depended heavily on adaptation, repair, reuse, and local ingenuity. Rather than treating farming as theory alone, Cobleigh recorded the everyday devices that made barns, fields, gardens, livestock care, hauling, fencing, and household farm work more efficient. That practical emphasis gives his book continuing value for readers interested in traditional agriculture, homesteading, farm history, low-tech design, and the material culture of American rural life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wilder Publications
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1515434613
• ISBN 13: 9781515434610
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204