DIY Construction Mastery: An 11-Book Collection for Enthusiasts
Historic Handbooks for Home Workshops, Outdoor Projects, and Self-Reliant CraftsmanshipBy W. Ellis Groben, Clyde P. Fickes, Daniel Carter Beard, Edward Godfrey, W. H. Wood, Ara Marcus Daniels, T. A. H. Miller, H. Vandervoort Walsh, Andrew Frederick Hunter, M. C. Betts, James Silver, W. E. Crouch, John L. Shawver
Length30h 41m
About this audiobook
DIY Construction Mastery gathers eleven practical manuals into a capacious archive of early and modern self-instruction in building, repair, outdoor craft, and household improvement. Its range extends from methodical technical guidance and illustrated procedures to project-based advice shaped by workshop culture, scouting, and domestic ingenuity. Standout concerns include the transformation of ordinary materials into durable structures, the cultivation of tool literacy, and the ethical pleasures of competent, economical making. Read together, these volumes place do-it-yourself construction within the broader history of popular technical education. The collection's contributors—W. Ellis Groben, Clyde P. Fickes, Daniel Carter Beard, Edward Godfrey, W. H. Wood, Ara Marcus Daniels, T. A. H. Miller, H. Vandervoort Walsh, Andrew Frederick Hunter, M. C. Betts, James Silver, W. E. Crouch, and John L. Shawver—represent overlapping traditions of engineering instruction, handicraft pedagogy, outdoor life, and vocational self-help. Their varied approaches illuminate the cultural movements that democratized specialized knowledge and made practical craftsmanship central to ideals of independence and civic usefulness. Recommended for makers, historians of technology, educators, and curious readers, this volume offers an unusual opportunity to compare methods, assumptions, and styles of instruction across a single resource. It rewards both hands-on consultation and critical reading, fostering dialogue between technical skill, material culture, and the enduring aspiration to build for oneself.
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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length30 hrs 41 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Fences, Gates and Bridges: A Practical Manual
2Fences, Gates and Bridges: A Practical Manual
3CHAPTER I. RAIL AND OTHER PRIMITIVE WOOD FENCES.
4CHAPTER II. STONE AND SOD FENCES.
5CHAPTER III. BOARD FENCES.
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6CHAPTER IV. PICKET FENCES.
7CHAPTER V. BARB-WIRE FENCE.
8CHAPTER VI. FENCES OF BARB WIRE AND BOARDS.
9CHAPTER VII. HEDGES.
10CHAPTER VIII. PORTABLE FENCES AND HURDLES.
11CHAPTER IX. FENCES FOR STREAMS AND GULLIES.
12CHAPTER X. MAKING AND SETTING POSTS.
13CHAPTER XI. GATES AND FASTENINGS.
14CHAPTER XII. WICKETS AND STILES.
15CHAPTER XIII. FENCE LAW.
16CHAPTER XIV. COUNTRY BRIDGES AND CULVERTS.
17Building with Logs
18Plank Frame Barn Construction
19PREFACE.
20Constructing a Plank Frame Barn.
21Bracing a Basement Barn Built on the Plank Frame System.
22A Plank Frame Applied to a Skating Rink.
23Construction of Plank Frame Basement Barn.
24Criticism of Plank Frame Barn Construction.
25Criticism of Plank Frame Barn Construction.
26Is the Barn Frame of Sufficient Strength?
27Bents for 12-Sided Plank Frame Barn.
28Practical Stair Building and Handrailing
29PREFACE.
30PRACTICAL STAIR BUILDING and HANDRAILING.
31PLATE I. ELEMENTARY PROBLEMS.
32PLATE II. CLOSE NEWELLED OR DOG-LEGGED STAIRS, THE SETTING OUT OF RODS, ETC.
33PLATE III. THE CONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS PARTS OF STAIRS, SHOWING THE APPLICATION OF THE STEEL SQUARE FOR SETTING OUT STRINGS, ETC.
34PLATE IV. PLAN AND ELEVATION OF OPEN NEWEL STAIRCASE, WITH SPANDRIL UNDER BOTTOM FLIGHT.
35PLATE V. DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION.
36PLATE VI. DETAILS OF A NEWEL STAIRS, STARTING AND LANDING WITH WINDERS.
37PLATE VII. HALF-SPACE LANDING, WITH A STRAIGHT FLIGHT ABOVE AND BELOW, AND A CONTINUED RAIL, STARTING WITH A SIDE WREATH FROM A NEWEL.
38PLATE VIII. DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION.
39PLATE IX. DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION.
40PLATE X. DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION, SHOWING AN APPARATUS FOR MARKING THE LENGTH AND CUTS OF BALUSTERS AROUND THE CIRCULAR PARTS.
41PLATE XI. DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION.
42HANDRAILING.
43PLATE XII. ON OBLIQUE PLANES AND THEIR TRACES.
44PLATE XIII. ON PROJECTION OF OBLIQUE PLANES, ETC.
45PLATE XIV. LEVEL LANDING WREATH, OR HALF TWIST.
46PLATE XV. LEVEL LANDING WREATH, OR HALF TWIST—continued.
47PLATE XVI. LEVEL LANDING WREATH, OR HALF TWIST—continued.
48PLATE XVII. HALF-SPACE LANDING, WITH STRAIGHT FLIGHT ABOVE AND BELOW.
49PLATE XVIII. FROM THE LEVEL TO THE RAKE.
50PLATE XIX. FROM THE LEVEL TO THE RAKE—continued.
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