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• Barns and Outbuildings and How to Build Them

  
  bb101   Barns and Outbuildings and How to Build Them Barns and Outbuildings and How to Build Them was first published in 1881 and includes a wealth of designs for barns, animal pens, granaries and more.

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• Build Your Own Earth Oven

  
  bb206   Build Your Own Earth Oven 3rd ed. "The definitive book on how to build an adobe oven." Many readers have taken it's practical and creative advice to build their own ovens, bread-businesses -- and even their own earthen homes! "Empowering." Over 75,000 copies in print.  

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• Colonial Home Building

  
  bb315   Home Building and Woodworking in Colonial America by C. Keith Wilbur This illustrated sourcebook of seventeenth and eighteenth century construction reveals the expertise and foresight of Colonial builder who created structures that could withstand decades, even centuries, of wear and weather.  

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• Low Cost Pole Building Construction

  
  bb415   Low-Cost Pole Building Construction This book will save you money, time, labor and materials when building a small home, barn or other structure in the 'pole' building style.  

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• Understanding Wood

  
  bb460   Understanding Wood, A Craftsman's Guide to Wood Technology In this essential reference for woodworkers, R. Bruce Hoadley explains everything from how trees grow to how best to cut, season, machine, join, bend, and finish wood.

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• Wood and How to Dry It

  
  bb470   Wood and How to Dry It Learn how to buy, dry, store and mill timber. This text explains which species are good for which jobs and how to design joints that accommodate wood's seasonal swelling and shrinking.

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