An 1800's lifestyle takes a truly amazing amount of tools

Yes, you can "get by" with an ax and a knife (building a cabin in Alaska etc)

But if you want to have bowls, barrels, etc.... (Not to say not do everything 'the hard way'.) You start to see the infastructure that humans built up for hundreds of years till we entered the Industrial and Electric age.

I go to farm auctions and there are old tools that even with my reading I don't know what they are.

At a recent one I got to see a "haybale harpoon" (it goes in, hooks go out, and once you lower it from the loft they go back in as you shove it back out.)

I picked up a nice adze at that auction for $20.
The Fro went too high (it's really interesting to not only read about making shingles but how long they last.)

I am gradually collecting hand tools, I inherited a fair number, but when I find the right deal I start putting them back.
I recently added a manual wheel with a grinding wheel for my scythes with a guide for the blade.... $17.

The things that will be hard to get will be bowl and barrel making tools, leatherworking tools I mostly buy new as there's still a demand vs ornaments.

People don't realize how much infastructure existed "back then"... The specialized tools are amazing (I mean, just the numbers and different types of axes are astounding!)

If you'd like to add some rare tools (I was shown a bunghole drill.... It's like a corkscrew with a desegregation the sides to make them uniform size.) It a list of what your like..... Please share.
-My intent is more to share all the things we need\don't have\aren't prepared for.... So people understand how complex things really were when towns made everything vs had them shipped from china.
(I have a small. (Functional) model loom, it'll do as a model to build off of should (doubt it) one be needed....figured it was worth the $2-3)

Hopefully I'll get to keep running off my Dewalt plainer and other tools, and will get to either will a nearly complete collection of functional antiques to someone one day, or more likely go in a estate auction....
But in the interm.... They make cool wall hangers.

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An 1800's lifestyle takes a truly amazing amount of tools