How to Run Your Homestead
Essential Skills for Self-sufficient Living
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-58923-705-6 (ISBN)
Description
The book includes complete, technique-driven instructions and photographs for essential home repair and improvement subjects, such as clearing brush, logging/felling trees, planting trees/windbreaks, chainsaw basics, splitting & seasoning firewood, tractors & utility vehicles, building roads, re-grading & road repair, building fences & gates, stacking a fieldstone wall, pouring a concrete slab, can't-wait plumbing repairs, fixing a leaking roof, power outages, backup generators, pest control, wells & pumps, fireplaces & wood stoves, propane & LP fuel systems, waste removal systems, septic, composting toilets, privies, and cold storage solutions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Illustrations
300 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 229 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-58923-705-6 (9781589237056)
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Steve Maxwell lives on a 90-acre farm on Manitoulin Island in Canada. Known as Canada's Handiest Man, he is an award-winning home improvement authority and woodworking expert who has helped people renovate, repair, build, and maintain their homes since 1988. A dedicated off-the-grid DIYer, he has written over 5,000 articles for Mother Earth News and many other publications.