PRACTICAL GUIDE FEATURES DOZENS OF PROJECTS WITH 200 ILLUSTRATIONS. ANVIL, CHEESE PRESS, HOG HOUSES AND PIGGERIES. SPLITTING WOOD, BUILDING A ROSE TRELLIS AND EVEN A BICYCLE POWERED WASHING MACHINE.
Rolfe Cobleigh Book order
- 2020
- 2005
Old-Time Farm and Garden Devices
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
A splendid bit of rural Americana, Cobleigh's book shows how anyone with a little time and money can add a touch of authentic charm to their farm, house, or garden. First published nearly a century ago, this practical guide features dozens of projects, accompanied by some 200 illustrations. A simply written text not only tells how to mount an anvil, make a cheese press, and build hog houses, but also provides handy advice on splitting wood, testing seed corn, tying practical knots, sharpening scissors, and papering a room.From building a rose trellis to creating a bicycle-powered washing machine, readers will delight in this book’s abundance of enjoyable and useful projects. It’s perfect for novice craftworkers and die-hard fans of Yankee ingenuity.
- 1996
Practical projects as useful today as when first published 75 years ago.
