Primitive Tech, Traditional Skills & Hand-Made Tools Common-Sense Compost Making - Contents This book describes a way of making compost, i.e. humus, which is simply, labour saving (no turning) and quick, both in ripening the compost and in getting results in the soil. It is adaptible to all conditions and to every size and type of garden, allotment or farm, the process being based on nature's own methods. Miss Bruce tells how to make use of the natural heat of disintegration, which liberates the vitality of the plants; how to retain that vitality within the heap, and how to quicken both the disintegration of plants and the energizing of humus by treating the heap with a simple activator. This is a herbal solution which contains in living plant form the chief elements necessary to plant life; formulae are given. From Vegetable Waste to Fertile Soil affirms a belief in the universality of Life, this Life being manifest in varying 'rhythms' in the mineral, vegetable, animal and human kingdoms. Table of Contents Foreword by L.F. Appendices 1. Bibliography How to use Q.R. by L.F.
Woodworking books In order to become a good woodworker, besides tools, machinery and a workshop, you also need to possess knowledge and experience. You can acquire knowledge by learning, and for this you will need a good teacher, but also some woodworking books. Woodworking books will help you to extend the knowledge acquired in the workshop, and to find useful advices and proper examples on how to master the woodworking techniques. Almost every good woodworker has his own collection of woodworking books, out of which he learned some skills and which helped him to learn a large number of woodworking techniques - instead to learn on his own mistakes. Experience cannot be taught out of the books, but most of the books include some free woodworking plans to choose from and practice verified constructions that suit your experience. You can borrow woodworking books from the library, buy it in the bookstore, or you can purchase it online. - Woodworking joinery, tehniques and hand tool books - Woodturning books
Classic manuals online The following 46 books include many classics for backyarders, homesteaders, small farms and tropical development, many of them hard to find, with direct links to the CD 3rd World online library for free downloading. They are in graphic pdf format, with files from 1 or 2 Mb to 60 Mb. , by Robert Berold et. al., Environmental and Development Agency, Johannesburg, South Africa. 41.7Mb pdf Teknologi Kampungan -- A Collection of Indigenous Indonesian Technologies, by Craig Thorburn, 1982, Volunteers in Asia, ISBN 0917704169. 6.4Mb pdf Village Technology Handbook, Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA), 3rd edition 1988, Vita Publications, ISBN 0866192751, 441 p, 14Mb pdf Backyard Composting, by Helga Olkowski, Ecology Center, Berkeley, CA, USA, 1975, 21 pages, 8.5Mb pdf
Metalworking books Metalworking is a broad term that covers working with metals in order to create various metal objects, parts, assemblies or structures - from ships, bridges, parts of various vehicles, machines and engines, to the delicate watch parts or jewelry. Metalworking is a complex process which requires mastery of numerous skills at the same time, knowledge of various machinery working and undersatnding and use of the technological processes. Metalworking originated very long time ago. Metalworking books covers the processes, machine tools, and operations of a large number of technologies used to produce metal parts, assemblies and constructions. You can borrow metalworking books from the library, buy it in the bookstore, or you can purchase it online. As it can be seen from this classification, this category of our website cover almost all fields of metalworking, and we are sure that in this metalworking books you will find necessary knowledge to implement it in your work.
Oil Press By Jeff Cox -- from Organic Gardening, April 1979, Rodale Press IN 2,500 SQUARE FEET, a family of four can grow each year enough sunflower seed to produce three gallons of homemade vegetable oil suitable for salads or cooking and 20 pounds of nutritious, dehulled seed -- with enough broken seeds left over to feed a winter's worth of birds.The problem, heretofore, with sunflower seeds was the difficulty of dehulling them at home, and the lack of a device for expressing oil from the seeds. About six months ago, we decided to change all that. The job was to find out who makes a sunflower seed dehuller or to devise one if none were manufactured. And to either locate a home-scale oilseed press or devise one. The winnowing machine operates on the age-old principle of blowing the chaff away from the heavy grain with a controlled current of air.The unit uses a household or shop-type vacuum cleaner for its air supply. Tools Required 1.
Free Metal & Wood Projects The Free projects category is dedicated to people who find pleasure in making various useful things from wood or metal. Every single man that has done something with his own hands knows what a great satisfaction it is to look at a finished assembly. That satisfaction comes out from the quality time he spent, applying of knowledge and experience, overcoming many challenges and obstacles that emerge during the manufacture and also from the fact that he made some useful thing with his own hands and does not have to buy it. People are much more attached to the things that they made by themselves than to the industrial products, even if their own handwork is usually simpler. And because of that pleasure, here we are offering you the plans for manufacturing various items, regardless whether they are rarity in the market or common everyday objects – from a completely simple to quite complex ones. The individual manufacture of various useful or decorative items is not just a hobby.
The Museum Of Old Techniques For almost every electronic device or oil driven machine there used to be a low-tech alternative that was powered by human muscles, water or wind. The Museum of Old Techniques aims to collect and study these historical alternatives to modern day machinery. Why, you may ask? To quote the Museum: "Evolution doesn't necessarily mean progress, what we consider to be primitive solutions are often not primitive at all". A somewhat related publication is Edward H. Knight's book contains not only early electric equipment and steam driven machinery, but also human and animal powered machines.