good places to buy stuff

alokin · Intermediate Crude Joined: Aug 24, 2007 Posts: 799

I think we should buy some stuff like:
hand tools
an old fashioned hand drive grain grinder
a pedal sowing machine
...

were are good places to buy? (Besides tradingpost ebay)
Most second hand shops are short of these items and flea markets as well. I know one stall at Rocklea (Brisbane) flea market who sells tools.

Ebay has the disadvantage that you cannot have a look at the things.
So you try to get some stuff as well?

RdSnt · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:21 am Post subject: Re: good places to buy stuff

If you feel you are going to need these items then you are expecting to need them for a long time. Thus, the best thing to do is learn how to repair and make them. Then you are not limited to looking for pristine items, you can pick up junk and rehabilitate them.
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SILENTTODD · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: good places to buy stuff

Lehman's Link

This is a good place to start, at least looking. A lot of useful non-electric products (the most vulnerable resource of our modern civilization). Also a number of books on the Amish way of doing things.

I understand your point of view RdSnt . But sometimes it's more useful to at least see one working example of device before you venture into repairing or building one. The products here are well made (some of them by Amish entrepreneurs) and I would vouch for this company.
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alokin · Intermediate Crude Joined: Aug 24, 2007 Posts: 799

the lehmanns link is good, however it is not in Australia.
RdnSt, good hint but I really cannot imagine building a grain mill myself! Could you?

daniel347 · Coal Joined: Aug 13, 2005 Posts: 16

I think I have seen old hand tools at the local weekend market.

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Sololeum · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: good places to buy stuff

INDIA is the place - they have 200 odd million peasant farmers - check out MEKINS.COM, there is a host of others...

RdSnt · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: Re: good places to buy stuff

Yes; but more importantly really I could repair a broken one.

To extend that thought though, what kind of grain mill are you thinking of? Some big dutch windmill type thing. Yes I can could build one, including dressing the stones. But there are many types of mills and sizes. A mortar and pestle will do for small quantities. A big bucket with a long pole would do bigger quantities.
You could adapt other type of equipment, a hammer mill for instances.
Lots of possibilities. Hell, a couple of good sized grinding wheels used to sharpen knives would do the trick. There's even a hole in the middle already Very Happy

Cornelian · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject: Re: good places to buy stuff

I recently bought a hand driven grain mill in Australia - they're about - just google them. Prices vary according to quality.