Product Review Monday
This week’s book review is another useful homestead resource entitled “Practical Projects for Self-Sufficiency: DIY Projects to Get Your Self-Reliant Lifestyle Started.”
This is an intensely practical reference book giving 25 projects that are helpful on a homestead.
The instructions and step-by-step illustrations are superb.
Highly recommended for those looking to build up a self-reliant lifestyle.
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For our non-book recommendation, we’d like to showcase a piece of equipment we use constantly: a fence-stretcher tool.
By how battered and beat this tool is, you can see how much we’ve used it over the years. We can’t imagine engaging in a fencing project without it. We’ve used it to tighten barbed wire, smooth wire, and field fencing.
This stretcher uses a ratchet mechanism to pull things tight.
I – cannot – even – begin – to underscore how valuable this tool has been. We’ve owned it for at least 20 years and it’s helped us on dozens upon dozens of fencing projects. If you are ever in a position to stretch wire fences, this is a must-have aid.
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Source: http://www.rural-revolution.com/2025/05/product-review-monday_12.html
