Books

"Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them"

Publisher: 2007 Skyhorse Publishing, 555 Eighth Ave, Suite 903, New York, NY 10018; ISBN-13: 978-1-60239-103-1; Author: Rolfe Cobleigh

A republication of a 1910 book covering how to make various devices from anvils, water pump, sbracing principles, bee hives, plant supports, cultivators, drogues and drags, buildings, how to paint tin roofs, splicing pipes with water in them, ...

Decidedly low tech techniques, but very doable and affordable ones.