The traditional American devices contained in this intriguing compilation date from an era long before milking machines, pesticide sprayers, and industrial hay bailers.
Yet the simple inventions described for doing everything from managing young bulls to protecting drain outlets can be just as useful for today’s farmer as they were for the homesteaders of over a century ago.
Discover how to make such items as a movable nest for hens, a ribless boat, a contraption to extricate a mired animal, a farm cart with adjustable racks for larger loads, a wire fence tightener, a fruit picker, a grindstone set and frame, and much more.
Homemade Contrivances and How to Make Them is a boon for the rancher, farmer, or anyone who loves the rural life. I like using this book to do research on homestead solutions from the past. I then use this information and combine it with modern techniques and materials to create something even better.
This is a pretty great book, the fence tightener works with electric fence, and the movable chicken coop is something I really need to make.
Nowdays a single plan for one of the things in this book can cost more than the entire document. Its well worth the price.
The Soldier’s Load and the Mobility of a Nation is one of those foundational works in a profession.
Gear weights keep rising, when I was in the service in the 1990’s it was common for a soldier in full gear to weigh enough to set off an anti-tank mine. weights with gear over 350 pounds were not uncommon.
It is no surprise that bad knees and backs plague our former soldiers as the re-enter society.
More than disability, overloading the soldier has crippling impacts on rediness and combat effectiveness. In this Classic work, the author investigates The Soldier’s Load and how it impacts the Mobility of a Nation
Weight robs the fighter of both mobility and momentum and the technology that should be helping the American infantryman is crippling them. Everything has a battery now. Extra batteries are killer in the realm of dead weight.
This book is required reading for today’s military leaders, even with vehicles, infantry needs to be able to carry their own gear – equipment is changing as technology changes, but what can be humped on a soldiers back doesn’t change. Line gear helps, but knowing what a soldier can carry is vital.
While mental toughness is a singular value in both military and law enforcement training and missions, too often, there is a disconnect between talking about and actually training it.
A Warrior Mind is defined by mental toughness and describes its critical need and function in the face of the performance degrading effects of combat, mission or response stress. Warrior MindSet provides the psychological skills that comprise mental toughness to optimize performance, success, safety and survival in the field.
This information in this book is vital to those that are interested in self defense, performance, or surviving disasters. The information is centered around law enforcement and our military men that deal with lethal force encounters. However, that information is also valid for other issues that involve lethal threats and extreme stress.
If you want a more watertight Toilet Paper Holder holder than the one we showed you a few months ago, I have a more complex version.
This version uses a 2-liter soda bottle, some string, tape and a ziplock bag.
How to Make a Toilet Paper Holder
- Cut the bottle in half, ensuring that the end with the spout is deep enough to hold your roll.
- Split the bottom of a heavy duty freezer bag and place the split end over and around the cut end of your bottle.
- Duct tape the bag to the bottle. – This should make an opening on either end – the bottle spout on one, and the bag ziplock on the other.
- Poke a hole in the center of the bottle top and thread a string through it, knot it on the inside so it will not pull out. Attach the other end of the string to the neck of the bottle.
- In the center of the ziplock zipper, and outside of the actual bag, strengthen both sides with a piece of tape folded over. Do each side individually so that the zipper is not taped together.
- Poke a hole through the tape and the bag. Thread a length of string through the two holes – this is your hanging string.
To use
- Pull out one end of the paper from the center of the roll
- Remove the center from a roll of toilet paper.
- Open the ziplock end of the holder and drop in the toilet paper, pulled end down
- Fish the pulled out TP through the neck of the bottle
- Hang near your latrine area, and pull TP out as required.
- Screw lid on when done to keep anything from nesting in your holder.
- Wash hands and go enjoy the woods…