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35" TALL AND 56" LONG. Includes lumber needed and fullsize patterns.
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Honoring the legacy of American mechanical know-how, this classic guide presents the principles of mechanics as well as step-by-step instruction on how to build and repair all types of farm machinery, advice practical enough to use on todays modern farms.
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This classic, first published in 1872, is filled with handy advice on the best ways to plan and construct dwellings in any location using wood, earth and gravel. Includes log cabins, houses, slab houses, frame houses, and guidance on building an outdoor oven, a cellar, fence posts and gates. This was originally titled "The Immigrant Builder" and aimed at those headed west to homestead.
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Manual Training Toys for the Boys Workshop was originally published in 1912. After a short introductory section on basic woodworking and shop tools, the book offers 42 shop projects. Each project comes with a cutting list and dimensioned drawing, and all date from the early part of the 20th century (many, no doubt, are from the 19th century). Many of these projects are toys that require some skill in woodwork but they are not too difficult for boys and their dads to do together. When the book was first published it was dedicated to the boy who likes to tinker round, so it was really written with the thought that the boys could make these projects without adult supervision. Many of the projects would now be considered nostalgic reminders of a time when things were much simpler and boys were trained to use tools and make things that would be at times useful, and always entertaining. This was a time long before text messaging and video games. Projects include a Fourth of July or New Years eve rattle, a cannon that shoots marbles, a kite string reel, a pop-gun and whistle, a bow and arrow, a sword, a magic box, and 35 other fun things for boys to build.
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Skill level intermediate/advanced, Size 80' high 36" wide and 16" deep. Detailed instructions. Bill of materials and cutting list. Many pieces shown full size. 36" x 48" plan.
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Colonel Boustead began his career by deserting as a midshipman from the Royal Navy in 1915 in order to serve with the South African Scottish in France. In his long military career he fought against the Red Army in Russia, worked with Orde Wingate and Emperor Haile Selassie during the Ethiopian Campaign of WWII, assulted Everest with the Shipton expedition, won the Army Lightweight boxing championship, and served in Sudan for many years as a district officer. This is a wonderful autobiography of a bygone era.