Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them: Traditional Farm Tools, Homemade Equipment, and Practical Rural Ingenuity
Language: English
Published by Wilder Publications, 2018
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them: Traditional Farm Tools, Homemade Equipment, and Practical Rural Ingenuity
- Author
- Cobleigh, Rolfe
- Publisher
- Wilder Publications
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1515434613
- ISBN 13
- 9781515434610
- Item weight
- 593 grams
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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