Machinery

Too Close for Comfort: One Woman’s Misadventures in Pasture Creation

I reflected it was an odd way to spend a morning. Crammed in a bulldozer cab, my bottom perched on…

2 years ago

Homesteading Requires a Keen Edge: Knives on the Homestead

What’s the most oft-used tool on the homestead? Whether cutting vegetables for supper, field dressing wild game, butchering livestock, or…

2 years ago

The “Swiss Army Knife” of Homestead Tractors: The Gravely Tractor

What used to be pretty well accepted as “normal” life is likely where we're all headed—tougher times. Most people deluded…

3 years ago

Bush-hogging

Like most Americans, I find it very relaxing on occasion to take time away from my regular work to do…

3 years ago

How to Buy a VERY Used Tractor

If you're shopping for a used tractor, if you've never owned a tractor before, and if you're reading the pages…

3 years ago

Pint-size Plow-horses

I climb on the seat and ease in the clutch pedal.  Then I slip the choke forward, make sure the…

3 years ago

Preparing the Homestead for Winter, Part Two: The Machinery

If you haven't yet, read Preparing the Homestead for Winter, Part One: The Buildings   Based on a recent survey—i.e.…

4 years ago

Chains I Love — Using Log Chains on the Homestead

If you live in the woods, then you absolutely, positively gotta have chains. I don’t mean the sort of chain…

4 years ago

The Complete Sissy-boy’s Guide to Pickup Trucks

The illustration above is from a 1949 Studebaker advertisement... that Never-never Land where everyone drove a Studebaker. ~~~~~~~~ I grew…

5 years ago

Ford Model 8N Operator’s Manual

  Perhaps you’re wondering what sort of character would write a book review about an owner’s manual. Well, I have…

5 years ago