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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Farm building plans, equipment plans
  • Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:44:38 -0700

In the U.S. and Canada


Tvoivozhd---just for the hell of it, I opened a few links on plans for farm buildings, some equipment. This is the one from Colorado. Downloaded plans are $5.00 for the first page, $2.00 for each additional page. http://www.cerc.colostate.edu/Blueprints/Farmbuildings.htm

http://journeytoforever.org/at_linkag.html (start with Keith Addison's website and book list)

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mwps_dis/mwps_web/fr_matls.html (Midwest Plans service)

http://www.cerc.colostate.edu/Blueprints/Farmbuildings.htm

http://muextension.missouri.edu/explore/agguides/agengin/ (University of Missouri farm publications)

http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/ (North Dakota)
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/Construction1.htm (building trusses, walls including adobe, pole buildings, straw barn, shed)
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/MISC.htm (Iike the Miscellaneous list, old fashioned ice house, ice packed in sawdust, slaughter house with cooler and smokeroom, root cellar, woodfired water heater, rabbit hutches, rabbit barn, sugarhouse which would be useful if the damned acid rain hadn't killed all my sugar maples and probably yours too. Log lifter should be useful as all log lifters are. hulling and scarifying machine, sod cutter if you want a quick-fix on pasture washout areas, evaporator refrigerator if you live in a dry climate,)

http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php?folio_ID=/vaes/home/agr (Virginia images, old and new---shelling corn, acorn haystacks, gambrel-roofed pole barn using round poles, not milled ones. Gambrel looks nice, adds a lot of room, but I keep thinking about sliding off the damned thing when it needs roof repair---shed roof doesn't look as nice but is a damn sight easier to build, safer for maintainance.

http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumerinfo/factsheets/da1.html (a builder or owner has to be blind stupid not to heat their new house at least 80% with solar energy---could make it 100% but the last 20% costs more.

And only a brain-damaged farmer would put up a dairy parlor or any other farm building without using solar heat to dry grain, hay---you really don't want spontaneous combustion from damp hay

http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/Extension/ExtPubs/PlanList97.htm (University of Tennessee building plans including poultry and Pigeons---keep pigeons in town, they are great scroungers, and goshawks permitting, always come home to roost, eat, drink, confer with their family and friends. Greenhouses and pig palaces so you don't have to keep them i the back bedroom like Gee Gee at Heartwood or his Phoenix Borracho suburb. Hey, roadside or PYO roadstands too---moke those strawberries in perforated barrels a lot more profitable. Solar fruit dryer that I haven't looked at, don't know if it is like the downdrabt Homepower one with a heat chimney to really draw dry air through veggie and fruit slices. Bunch of pole barns too, lot of other good plans.

http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/Results.cfm?&nxtrec=1&where=%28%5Cwords+like+%27%25+building+%25%27%29OR%28%5Cwords+like+%27%25+plans+%25%27%29&CFID=189185&CFTOKEN=31211 (you want some really cheap land , go to the Yukon but first learn how to build an igloo here: http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=85101297&LibCode=YWIN

Don't worry about your meat supply, it will come right to your door, demanding to talk to you---called a grizzly bear.

And how to build, lead your dog team (better catch a lot of fish for them too) http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=nL23362&LibCode=YWIN

Build this log home: http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=83003851&LibCode=YWIN, and better yet a warmer, easier0-to-build cordwood masonry home. http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=85120434&LibCode=YWIN

More on building with logs: http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=85122748&LibCode=YWIN

In Canada your house really needs to be energy efficient so you aren't sawing wood every day. http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=vtls000123134&LibCode=YWIN

climatic considerations for building Canadian houses: http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=vtls000066413&LibCode=YWIN

Dictionary of building: http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=vtls000101001&LibCode=YWIN

Building tips: http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=vtls000087980&LibCode=YWIN

Permafrost is a harsh reality that must be obeyed: http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=85110555&LibCode=YWIN

Harnessing earthworms---this can be difficult, they tend to be slimy ad the harness can slip off---not as fast as your Iditarod dog team or the killer whale that tows your umiak. http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=000020265682&LibCode=YWED

Yeah, National Building Code rears its ugly head, even in Canada. Not everywhere yet and if you are a hundred miles back in moose pasture, and the porcupine ate the building inspector's snowshoes, you might not see him for the next ten years or more. http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=85122913&LibCode=YWIN

You must be able to interpret survey plans: http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=vtls000114000&LibCode=YWIN

Don't know what the hell "surrendered lands" are, maybe they couldn't fight off a crocodile invasion---but it sounds like the price is right, find out about it here: http://216.126.98.162/libraries20/SpLib24/DetailsMD.cfm?CtlNum=vtls000115019&LibCode=YWIN




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