Know-how from people who learned it the long way.
Illustrated how-to ebooks on wood heat, small engines, old tools, wells and septic, cast iron, army surplus, big-batch cooking and more. Plain steps, clear drawings, and checklists you can print and keep by the stove.
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The books
The Wood Heat Handbook
Dean Bracket
Firewood, stoves and chimneys
$29 · 122 pages
The Small Engine Fix-It Book
Denny Voss
Mowers, chainsaws and snowblowers
$29 · 134 pages
The Old Tool Field Guide
Gene Kessler
Maker's marks and what old tools are worth
$29 · 123 pages
The Well & Septic Handbook
Gordy Lemke
Country water, wells and septic
$29 · 131 pages
Lost in the Woods
Emmet Hedrick
What to do when you're lost, and how to get found
$29 · 133 pages
The Cast Iron Collector's Field Guide
Roy Bickford
Identify, date and restore vintage cast iron
$29 · 125 pages
Feeding a Crowd for Less
Otis Prater
Big-batch suppers for 8, 25 and 50
$29 · 141 pages
The Army Surplus Field Guide
Doyle Tackett
Real army surplus, and what's worth buying
$29 · 124 pages
Army Trucks That Ran Forever
Odel Tidwell
America's classic military trucks
$29 · 127 pages
The Japanese Home Method
Yuki
Warm, dry and uncluttered, the Japanese way
$29 · 127 pages
In other languages
The Japanese Home Method, written fresh for German and French homes.
Plain steps
Every job is broken into steps you can follow with the book open beside you. No padding, no jargon left unexplained.
Drawn to be useful
Full-color illustrations, diagrams and charts on nearly every spread, drawn to show you what to look for.
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