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15 Feb ’12
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I was thinking last night about what tools or products would help someone if they wanted to either totally go off the grid or cut back on electric usage. Here's some I was thinking of
butter churn
hand drill
grain mill
hand mixer
meat grinder
what do you guys got
4 Mar ’12
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it's pretty freaky you and I are thinking about this at the same time. I've been buying these same items as I plan to go off grid in my new home. I've been going to my local flea market every weekend and buying old hand tools and other items that I find useful.
Last weekend I got a great deal. Struck up a conversation with a vendor and when I asked him the price on this good condition coleman camping stove he said "5 bucks" I said great, I'll take it. He then threw in a near mint condition matching coleman lantern for free.
Some other items I have picked up from previous trips include, some old hand saws of various sizes, a few varieties of hand drills and many different drill bits for them. A hand mixer for the kitchen. Some cast iron pots and pans. I can't remember them all.
As a guy, I tend to think about working with my tools. But I've come to realize that older hand tools for the kitchen will save us energy. So I've included that in my list of stuff I'm looking for.
7 Mar ’12
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A canner with plenty of lids & jars
knife and axe sharpening stones, files for tools
A big outdoor kettle & & stand
An cast iron kettle for boiling water directly over a fire
Axe & draw knife
Some good carving knives
Anything Dick Proenneke had
15 Feb ’12
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great point gw, flea markets and garage sales are great spots to find old hand tools and such
15 Feb ’12
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Anything Dick Proenneke had
I wonder if there is a list anywhere with everything he took with him
6 Oct ’15
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This could grow into a huge list.
Hand powered carpentry tools are a must:
Drilling: bit/brace, breast drill, beam machine, bits galore, file to sharpen
Sawing: hand saws- ripping, cross cut, buck saw, hack saw, coping, bow, teeth set/files, pruning saws, hand pruners
Hammer's of all sorts and sledges too.
Post hole diggers, dig bar, pick, round and square nose shovel, hoes, rakes, pitch fork, spades, post pounder, wheel barrows, long handeled fruit picker
Log Jack, axe, maul, wedges, hatchet, pry bars, crow bars,
Yard sticks, tape measures of all types
Chalk line, plumb bobs,
Corn Sheller-hand crank
Juicer-hand crank
Wine Press
push mower/reel mower, push cultivator
Come-a-long(s), mechanical jacks, chain fall, pulleys, block & tackle, jack stands (never use CMU's)
Chains, rope, ratchet straps, string/twine
Manual transit, water levels, bubble levels, framing squares
Ladders: extension, step
Files, punch sets, star drills
Sockets, screw drivers, pliers, wire cutters, tap & dyes, crescent wrenches, wire brushes,
Blow torch, pipe cutter, pipe threader maybe
Hand planes, sharpening stones, spoke shaves, draw knives, knives
Gloves/safety glasses/whistle (to call for help/injury), aspirin (cardiac), boots
Just thinking of what I see when I go in my barn....this can go on and on
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26 Nov ’15
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Something that we would have not thought of before we first went grid free was replacing an electrical toaster. Sure there are those camp stove 'prop-up' models, but worked best for us was a tortilla warmer that lays flat over a (gas) burner and even right on the top of a wood stove. We have a little cheap timer that we set for a couple of minutes, flip the bread over and then toast the other side.
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