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This is the way folks used wood and iron to make tools for the jobs that needed doing - during the years from around 1630 to 1860. Those of us who are taking homesteading to include as much self-sufficiency as we can manage can get some time saving ideas. If you're going to make a tool to do a job "your ownself", it would help to get the design right the first time, eh?
I'm not planning to live that close to the land; I'll be laid down in it soon enough. The reading and the sketches are mighty interesting though. So... that's how they did that!
There are probably other places to find this book. A friend found the copy I have down at the recycling place, in the son-to-be scrap paper pile. Y'know, good books should be passed along from hand to hand until they fall apart, not discarded. [I continued this rant for awhile, but realized you folks don't need to read again what you know by heart.]
This is the way folks used wood and iron to make tools for the jobs that needed doing - during the years from around 1630 to 1860. Those of us who are taking homesteading to include as much self-sufficiency as we can manage can get some time saving ideas. If you're going to make a tool to do a job "your ownself", it would help to get the design right the first time, eh?
I'm not planning to live that close to the land; I'll be laid down in it soon enough. The reading and the sketches are mighty interesting though. So... that's how they did that!
There are probably other places to find this book. A friend found the copy I have down at the recycling place, in the son-to-be scrap paper pile. Y'know, good books should be passed along from hand to hand until they fall apart, not discarded. [I continued this rant for awhile, but realized you folks don't need to read again what you know by heart.]
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