[Kimber]

I'm putting this thread up for people who would like some nice manuals available on subject such as ax and crosscut saw maintainance, etc. If you have an interest in "old tech", or are just a simple doomer, you might find these interesting. All are downloadable in pdf.

UDSA, Forest Service Trail Construction Publications
- Crosscut Saw Manual
- The classic "An Ax to Grind"
- Other handtool publications
http://www.sctrails.net/Trails/LIBRARY/FSPubs/fspubs.html

Appalachian Trail Conference
Backcountry Sanitation Manual (A 220 page manual on everything, I think)
http://www.appalachiantrail.org/protect/steward/sanman.html

Please feel free to add more if you find any. I will as well. There's a Texas publication on cisterns, for example, that I need to find again and post.

I'm strange, I know, but I like reading about this stuff even though I hope to never need the knowledge.

David

[Aleph Null]

Moved by request. :)

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[north runner]

Historical Video tapes.

1. Lumberjack Sky Pilot vhs (also a book with the same title)

Lumber camps in the north country 1930-40s filmed by flying preachers. Mostly winter scenes of the adirondacks. logging film, old tractors and breaking log jambs.

1-800-950-9648 wmht home video sales

2. So You Want To Be A Woodsman - A collection of pulpwood industry films from the mid-1940's vhs 58 min

It Pays to be Trained - cordwood cutting and stacking with a bowsaw. 20 min

Helpful Hints In preparing Pulpwood - felling, pulp hook and axe, pickets and skids. 12 min

Use And Care of a Bucksaw - assembling sharpening, proper use and maintence. 12 min

Twitching - using horses to skid logs. 4 min

Your Cord of Wood - milling process to sale of cordwood. 10 min

ph. 207-469-0924 northeast historic films

[Kimber]

For those thinking about water and cisterns, here is a good reference manual . . .

Texas Guide to Rainwater Harvesting

http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/publications/reports/RainHarv.pdf#search='Texas%20Guide%20to%20Rainwater%20Harvesting'

David

Edited to add: It wouldn't hyperlink. But copying and pasting on IE seems to work, provided you have Adobe Acrobat.