Photo Index

Photos really are worth a thousand words, especially when it comes to tools.  The height of civilization is measured by its tools that work, not convenience items.  By the 1930's, virtually all the tools we need for a comfortable lifestyle were already invented...new incarnations are merely adaptations of what went before.  If you see a photo of something useful, chances are you will be able to make something like it or adapt something close to that use, if only you have the idea in the first place.  And that is where this photo index can be valuable. The list below is of the full sized photos.  Blue bordered photos on this site like the ones below are "thumbnailed" so they will download fast.  Just click on the "thumbnail photo" and the full sized photo will download.  Use the "back" button on your browser to get back to the main page.  Two examples are shown below.  I have hyperlinked some of the photos to their full sized versions...just wave your mouse over a photo to see if it is hyperlinked.  I will try to get all the photos hyperlinked, but it takes time.

In the photo above at left is my Peugeot folding bicycle towing a "Foldit" garden cart made in Spokane, WA, and is available from www.NorthernTool.com , Item# 14473, for $189.99, which does not include the front panel or the bicycle attachment. The photo on the right shows a German paratroop folding cart designed and used over 60 years ago.  The modern, all aluminum Foldit cart is lighter and folds more compactly than the German paratroop cart, but both have the same essential use...you can tow or pull far more than you can carry, and what you pack in the cart could save your life.  The Peugeot folding bicycle?  They are no longer imported into the US, but the design is virtually identical to the folding bicycle issued to French troops during WW II. A modern folding mountain bicycle would be better because of the lower gearing.

Unless otherwise indicated, I take full credit or blame for the photography.  Unless otherwise indicated, the items photographed are mine.  Some photos are on my Wick Shop web site.

PHOTO INDEX

Communications

• Tiny GP-4L Survival Radio available at my Survival Shop
• A selection of radios
• owned by Miles Stair
• A collection of windup radios owned by Miles Stair
• GE Super radio - ancient radio owned by Miles Stair
• Select-a-Tenna - owned by Miles Stair
• Radios used by New England Gardener in Connecticut, #1, #2, #3

Electrical; generators and power

• EMP - Practical Preparations
•       Faraday cages to keep your radios safe from ElecroMagnetic radiation Pulse (EMP) 
•       Grounding cable                                                        
•       Grounding clamps                                                     
•       Grounding metal sheds (overview)                             
•       Grounding metal sheds (detail)                                   
•       Grounding vehicles with chains                                
•       Grounding vehicles with ground wire and alligator clips  
• 1 KW 2 stroke gas generator.    From my collection.
•        1 KW gas generator under Faraday cage.   
• 2 KW gas generator
• 3 KW gas generator    From my collection.
•        3 KW gas generator on cart under Faraday cage.   From my collection.
• Small inverters
• and a small solar panel    From my collection.
• 12 volt socket adaptor
• Building a cart for a generator - photos #1, #2, #3, #4, #5.
• Solar power for a motor home
• (Photo from supplier of solar panels)
• Solar powered water pump  (Photo from supplier of "Powershack")
• The PowerShack water pump  (Photo stolen off the Internet.)
• Solar chargers for common flashlight batteries

Food

• Baking ingredients
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• Bulk grains in 5 gallon buckets (Commercial product and photo.)
• Powdered milk in bulk containers
• Bulk rice and bean 20 pound sacks
• Industrial size cans of food
• food storage in pantry
• Bulk rice
• and institutional size food cans
• Canned butter
• Canned food storage
• with canned meat stored in used laundry buckets
• Various types of canned meat
• homemade red jello
• Jello made in large mouth canning jars
• Ingredients for making mayonnaise
• spices needed for cooking
• Making maple syrup, photos #1, #2, #3, #4,  #5 and #6           

Food Preparation Equipment    From my collection.

• cast iron cookware
• chaffing dish
• for cooking with candles
• Can waxing using a kerosene stove (note large pan full of water for safety
• Can waxing using an electric paraffin melter
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• Canning juice settling and filter buckets
• Stainless steel bottom draw juice canning container
• Collection of tools used in food canning
• More tools to make canning easier
• Grain grinder and meat chopper
•     A different view, plus a pasta machine
• Home make food chopper
• Meat grinder with pulley wheel (Photo from NorthernTool.com)
• Smokehouse for meat preservation
• Victorio Squeezo strainer

Gardening

• South side of garden planted under string lines )
• North side of garden ready for planting
• Amaranth and marigolds
• Amaranth and marigolds, different direction
• South side of garden growing through string lines
• Rows of flowers and straw mulch
• Companion planting, squash and sunflowers
• Interplanting cabbage and flowers
• Rows of flowers and straw mulch between rows for moisture retention
• Row garden in early summer, still growing
• Companion planting, flowers and cabbage
• Sunflowers at full height behind amaranth, me holding black cat between them
• Buckwheat in foreground, orchid greenhouse behind
• The orchard is a vital part of gardening
• Tractor gardening
•      Simplicity Tractor, circa 1960, from New England Gardener
•      Gravely Tractor, circa 1980, from New England Gardener
•      New engine in old tractor, from New England Gardener
•      Pulling a disk, from New England Gardener
•      Furrowing, from New England Gardener
•      Cultivating, from New England Gardener
•      Harrow, from New England Gardener
• Weird gardening tools that work (I have them, so why not make them pose for photos?)
•     Cultivator rake
•     Digging fork
•     Digging forks - various types
•     Forks - bent tine for deep soil raking
•     Forks - debris lifting
•     Hand cultivator
•     Hand plow
•     soil compactor

    Greenhouse building

• Enclosed patio for starting plants in the spring, drying grains in the fall
• Drying grains from rafters of patio before the patio was enclosed
• Inside orchid greenhouse, which may also be used for starting plants in the spring
• First step, installing the long side wall on big greenhouse
• Second step, rafters up
• End wall framing built
• End wall finished
• Peppers growing in greenhouse

    Beekeeping

• My world record setting beehives - 645 pounds of honey in one season!
• What happens when a bear finds a beehive (back of hive stand)
•     Remains in front of the hive stand
• New hive stand on trailer, ready to replace one destroyed by the bear.
• Swarm coming into a bait hive.
• Honey extractor (Maxant 3100)
• Bee brush
• Frame squeezer for tightly wiring frames
• Maxant hive tool
• Hive cart for working on or transporting hives

Home built items

• Solar oven in use, melting wax
• Solar oven with cover off, showing wax melting tray and screened collecting pan
• Solar oven, back view, showing hinged board used to elevate oven to 40 degrees

Kerosene Stoves

• Butterfly #2412 pressure stove
• Butterfly #2412 pressure stove, disassembled
• Butterfly #2416 two burner gravity flow wick stove
• Butterfly #2457 10 wick cook stove
• Butterfly #2413 single burner gravity flow wick stove
• Butterfly #2418 double burner gravity flow stove
• Butterfly #2421 kerosene stove oven
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• Butterfly #2628 wick stove and #2457 wick stove
• Catalytic converter lifted to show gravity flow Butterfly wick
• "Golden Night" pressure stove
• Premier Jr. small 10 wick kerosene stove
• Premier Sr. 10 wick kerosene stove
• Swastik 12 wick stove
• Swastik stove under cooking stand
• Kerosene cook stoves as used in canning
• (Under cook stands to support wide or heavy canners.)
• Kerosene cook stoves used as emergency heaters
• Home made cook stand for kerosene stoves showing expanded metal on top
• Home made cook stand for kerosene stoves made using an aquarium metal frame (photo by Carolyn Lucas)
• 19th Century Brooder house heater renewed as small stove as well as heater.
• Haller "Origineel," a German stove, most likely post war.  This is a small stove, about 6 x 9", and uses a thin 2 1/2" wide flat wick - the Kosmos wick works perfectly.  From my collection.
• Harper Beatrice "Boiling Stove", made in England, probably post war, likely used as a "caravan" heater and stove.  Essentially, this is a very successful update of the 1880's "sad iron heater" such as the "Golden Star."  This heater uses a 4" wide wick cut from the B&H lamp wick.  It can boil a teakettle of water in 10 minutes - with no fumes or soot.  Virtually identical to an all-brass stove made in Germany circa 1900.  From my collection.

Kerosene Heaters - Convection 

• 1918 "Perfection" Oil Heater Advertisement    From my collection.
• Corona convection heater     From my collection.
• Dyna-Glo convection heater
• WC-105 Type N on cart built from a inexpensive Chinese hand truck.  In the summer, this cart sees duty as a beehive work cart.  From my collection.
• Toyotomi DC 100 on home made cart   From my collection.
• Toyotomi DC 100 on wheeled dolly
• Toyotomi WC 105 Type N on home made cart   From my collection.
• Building a cart for convection heaters: Photos #1, #2, #3, #4, #5.
• For more photos of kerosene heaters, see my photo album at www.MilesStair.com/photo_album.html

Kerosene Heaters - Radiant

• Aladdin S181U Tropic heater    From my collection.
• Aladdin TR2000 heater             From my collection.
• Circular fiberglass wick used in kerosene heaters
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• Corona SX-2e radiant heater on cart.   From my collection.
• DynaGlo RMC-55R7
• HeatMate HNNR 1101 radiant heater    From my collection.
• Sharp-Pechka radiant heater    From my collection.
• Tony Sun radiant heater

Kerosene Heaters - Weird

• "Auto Motor Heater"   From my collection.
• Auto Motor Heater Diagram    From my collection.
• Auto Motor Heater Primer Wick    From my collection.
• 19th Century Brooder house heater renewed as small stove as well as heater.   From my collection.

Kerosene Storage Tanks

• 110 gallon Mack truck diesel tanks on home made cradle for kerosene storage

Lighting               

• LED hand pump 50,000 hour flashlight - available only at my Survival Shop   New!
• An assortment of flashlights, battery powered, from penlights to lanterns, owned by Miles Stair
•      More flashlights
• , including BayGen windup and solar battery chargers, owned by Miles Stair
•      More flashlights, including carbide lantern, miner's lantern, and hand cranked flashlight, mine
• Aladdin "Genie" kerosene lamp
• B & H "Trophy" lamps from the 19th Century.  From my collection.
• Butterfly 828R pressure lantern hanging from ceiling
• Czech wall lamp
•    From my collection.
• Kerosene lanterns and lamps, an assortment
•   From my collection.
• LED truck lamps used by New England Gardener, photos #1 and #2.
• Mason jar burner kerosene lamp
•    From my collection.
• Pressure lantern comparison; single mantle Coleman, double mantle Coleman, Butterfly 828R
• Supplies needed to make candles
• (Lousy photo, sorry. The instructions identify all items, such as the salmon can in the rear used as a large candle mold, and the votive candle mold in foreground.)

Religious

• Our Pre Vatican I altar [early 1880's] made for horseback travel in the high desert West         (Legs and lower shelf are gold leaf plated.)   From my collection.
• Our Pre Vatican I tabernacle [early 1880's] made for horseback travel in the high desert West
• (Note extensive gold leaf on sides and bottom shelf. The entire interior is gold leaf.)
• St. Michael stained glass image  (Photo by Al Harris)
• Virgin Mary stained glass image
•   (Photo by Al Harris)
• Various religions articles  
• WW II Soldier's Bible (1941), Catholic edition, Photo #1,  Photo #2,  Photo #3  From my collection.
• A collection of Bette's Rosaries on the altar

Tools and Home Built Items

• Blacksmithing tools owned and used by 'smith Dale Raby
•       Blacksmithing tools within the Newly Revised Article by Dale Raby!!!
• Blacksmithing tools owned by Miles Stair       From my collection.
•      Anvil - medium, standard model           New!
•      Anvil, light, made from railroad track     New!
•      Hammers
•      Hand forged branding iron                    New!
•    Hand forged hay saw
•      Hand forged tongs                               New!
•      Hand forged wrenches                         New!
•    Vise Grips - adjustable                        New!  
• Firewood saws and tools
•      From my collection.
•      Double-bit and single bit axes, photos #1, #2, #3, #4
•      Splitting mauls
•      Crosscut saws
•      Sawbuck photos #1, #2, and #3.
•      Log cabin where I was born - made with hand tools
•          Log cabin building tools:
•                Adze
•                Draw Knife
•                Froe
•                Single Jacks  
•     Sandstone grinder/sharpener, pedal powered
• Good, working survival knife
• Mossberg HS 410 shotgun (Photo from Mossberg...better than my photo.)
• Nostalgic Reloading photos
•      Speer Reloading Manual, #1, 1954
•      Speer Wildcat Manual, #2, 1956
•      Bullet mold open
•      Bullet mold selection       From my collection.
•      Barnes Bullets - mid-'50's.    From my collection.
•      Nosler Bullets - From 1st 6 months of production, 1948   From my collection.

Sanitation

• Emergency toilet for use in a shelter (Photographed on the patio for clarity, not for use there.)
• Bar soap making ingredients
• Laundry soap ingredients
•        Borax
•        Fels Naptha bar soap
•        Washing soda
• Rat heaven, a self-made disaster
• Trash burner for household garbage

War Preparations

• "Bee safe" photos #1, #2, #3
• Emergency fallout shelter photos: #1, #2, #3, #4
• Log cabin shelter (They work. I was born in this one.)
• 6 mill black plastic for covering windows, roof repairs, and Three Days of Darkness
• Emergency registration card from the Post Office
• (POD form 809)
• EMP - Practical Preparations
•       Faraday cages to keep your radios safe from ElecroMagnetic radiation Pulse (EMP) 
•       Grounding cable                                                           New!
•       Grounding clamps                                                      New!
•       Grounding metal sheds (overview)                                New!
•       Grounding metal sheds (detail)                                       New!
•       Grounding vehicles with chains                                       New!
•       Grounding vehicles with ground wire and alligator clips     New!
• Folding Peugeot and folding trailer (Anyone want to buy 2 folding Peugeot bicycles?)
• Folding WW II German paratroop cart
• Gas Mask
• Motor home (American Clipper classic, mine) for emergency living in relative comfort
• NUKALERT (Front)
• NUKALERT (Back)
• Potassium Iodide
• WW II Ration book - back side - expect to see something similar in the future
• WW II Ration book - front cover
• WW II Ration stamps in the ration book (Stamps for tires, food, ammunition, etc.)

Water

• Gutter connection for collecting rain water for delivery to a storage tank
• 1250 gallon water storage tank (Brought home in a small trailer.)
• 1250 gallon water storage tank set up under eves for rain water collection
• (Before enclosure in a shed type building for concealment and frost protection.)
• Diagram of water ram pump
• Diagram of how a ram pump is set up for continuous  use

Wood cooking and heating

• Collection of tools for efficiently cutting and splitting firewood
•         Double-bit and single bit axes, photos #1, #2, #3, #4
•         Splitting mauls
•         Crosscut saws
•          Sawbuck - photo #1, #2, #3
•         Tool for sharpening cross cut saw.
•         Tool for placing the "set" in the teeth of cross cut saws.
•         Tool for gauging the "set" in the teeth of cross cut saws.
• Stanley wood cook stove owned by New England Gardener.                  New!
• Wood burning "trash burner" stove which may be used for cooking, 
• Wood heating stove which may be used for cooking, but not efficiently
• Home made trivets to elevate pots and pans above wood stove to regulate the heat

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