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A comprehensive how-to manual of Polyface Farm’s signature designs—with tips, tricks, and a half century of lessons learned through trial and error. Have you wondered how to build the Polyface broiler shelter, or the dolly to move it, or an Eggmobile, Gobbledygo or Shademobile? For folks getting started, folks adding enterprises, or folks wanting a cheaper bootstrap way to build portable livestock infrastructure, Polyface Designs has all the diagrams and do-it-yourself building specifications. Joel Salatin wrote the text and Polyface former apprentice and engineer extraordinaire Chris Slattery did the drawings. Ultimately practical, the book includes how to build a corral, a home-made head gate and even how to select the right axle for your project. Square footage requirements for the deep bedding hay shed and area advice for pig pastures make this the definitive repository for a lifetime of Polyface experimentation. A massive volume, its 568 pages are in full color and beautiful enough to be a coffee table book even though you’ll use it in your shop. Don’t let the cover price scare you; one building tip can more than save the price of the book. Review: Great book at a great price - Great book at an amazing price. It’s reminds me of a Lego instruction book. Super easy to follow Review: This is one passing on to your kids. This book is great. - What can I say about this book that hasn’t been said it gives you designs even tells you how many boards to cut what size what shape I’m telling you this is a book you want to keep forever buy this book
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| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 830 Reviews |
L**N
Great book at a great price
Great book at an amazing price. It’s reminds me of a Lego instruction book. Super easy to follow
C**N
This is one passing on to your kids. This book is great.
What can I say about this book that hasn’t been said it gives you designs even tells you how many boards to cut what size what shape I’m telling you this is a book you want to keep forever buy this book
A**R
A must have!
This book is amazing. It has everything you need to get your homestead going. Tons of details, building supplie lists, diagrams. We love it. Thank you!
K**G
An amazing book
An amazing book, I can’t wait to start building.
A**R
Best read ever!
Absolutely must have for anyone interested in farming or just interested in learning about the way to do it right! Joel is a genius willing to share all he has learned over ** years. 😉
J**E
This book
Is awesome if you are actively farming, researching farming, or just interested in Joel Salatin's structures and methods. It's a full color, step by step manual for building almost any farm structure you could want in a scaleable system. The book itself is sturdily designed and is made so that you can make copies of pages on a normal copy machine if you need to or just carry it out to the barn with you.
B**T
Great Resource for sustainable but commercial farmers
I bought this book because of the great things that Joel Salatin has done. While the book describes the projects as scalable, it means that you can scale it up by building more structures, not smaller ones. I plan to keep it in the hopes that I can scale them down on my own or in the event that I'm able to grow my small farm in the future. This book is not for homesteaders.
Y**Y
Easy to Use
What I liked: Informative, yet still an engaging read Directions are easy to follow, even for a novice Lots of pictures to compare What I wish might change: This is a dense book packed full of information, yet I’d still like to see it in a more out-on-the-farm friendly format. The page size is good, but could future editions have an option of laminated pages with a lay-flat spiral binding? Or maybe an option for purchasing in a .pdf format, so the user could print out only the section of the book to be used at that time? No big changes, just little things Overall, a good investment and I am glad I purchased
J**N
OH MY GOD
If you're a handman or not, this book has it all ... thumb up
Z**R
More than we bargained for…
Very detailed and in depth drawings, measurements and animal mannerisms that made the designs what they are. You can see why Polyface is so successful as the big picture is in the details. Can’t wait to put this knowledgeable book into practice on our own homestead.
T**S
Not localised, be aware, its for americans only, NOT metric system
The content of the book is 10/10, however i returned it, because of stupid American (inch, feet, gallon, etc) system. it really pissed me off. Please burn, purge everything that has this imperial system, it must be erased from existence and forgotten.
A**R
Excellent book
Excellent book
D**I
A great investment
Very well illustrated and so much information to follow or inspire you
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