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Anonymous Wed 29 Jun 2016 19:31:16 No.804401 View View Reply Original Report

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What is /out/'s opinion on The Foxfire Books? Has anyone else read them? Personally I would highly recommend them to anyone interested in sustained off the grid living.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Jun 2016 21:08:32 No.804460 Report

Quoted By: >>804672 >>807847

>>804401
Got a torrent link to at least one of these so I can see for myself whether they're worth buying?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:40:23 No.804672 Report

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>>804460
Just search for Foxfire 1 pdf on google and find this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 05:08:44 No.804802 Report

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I found most of them in pdf when /out/ was young.but they are definitely worth buying.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 12:52:55 No.804926 Report

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>>804401
Tell us a bit about them, OP. What exactly are they about?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 13:05:05 No.804931 Report

Quoted By: >>804942 >>804991 >>808406

>Not OP

Foxfire is a collection of local knowledge, folklore, and information collected by students and made into a book gleaned from the oldest generation of Appalachians. Everything from basket weaving to food storage to chimney design using rocks and clay. Building a cabin, making a chair, hunting, preserving fish, hoop snakes....just about everything is in there and it's possibly just as correct as a textbook or as incorrect as your crazy assed uncle's advice on preserving possum by burying them in a pile of smoking leaves for an afternoon.

I got a few of them from a sale at the library and they're great. It's like having all my grandfathers knowledge in a book.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 13:28:16 No.804942 Report

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>>804931
Also moonshining ;-)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 15:50:15 No.804991 Report

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>>804931
This is dead on

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 16:27:13 No.805010 Report

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>>804401
I read them (well browsed through them) as a kid, my grandmother had the whole set in her library.

Been a long time and I was quite young, but I remember them seeming really cool and full of useful knowledge at the time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 17:11:26 No.805047 Report

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>>804401
is it worth picking them up if I'm an agoraphobic who just likes reading /out/ related stuff?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 18:27:22 No.805112 Report

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>>805047
100% absolutely.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 06:56:37 No.805496 Report

Quoted By: >>805763

I got that white one, the first? on a garage sale, they are probably not as good as good instructional books, they are fun and full of knowledge. I wish I had them all...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 20:28:10 No.805763 Report

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>>805496
They have them up for download online, but I'd like to find real ones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 20:29:55 No.805766 Report

Quoted By: >>805768 >>807824

>mountain crafts and foods
Sounds fun
>faith healing
Wait a second

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 20:32:16 No.805768 Report

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>>805766
Some stuff in it is iffy but it is from Appalachia, so what do you expect?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 20:38:27 No.805774 Report

Quoted By: >>815954

Oh shit, 50th anniversary with special editions. Now would be the time to buy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 01:52:06 No.805971 Report

Quoted By: >>807824 >>809319

>>804401

Overall good shit. Nostalgic feels.

The author of the series is from my hometown. He was notorious for extra circulars in the tents with young boys.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 15:27:00 No.806261 Report

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The first one is so good, has a chapter called moonshining as a fine art. So much info, has pics and the next page shows a drawing of the pic

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Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 15:28:33 No.806265 Report

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>>806261
And the detailed drawing

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Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 15:31:44 No.806269 Report

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>>806265
And I also found a book that just deals with stories, great read if you like these books.

Fox fire books are badass. Teaches you all you need to know (no joke)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 02:57:55 No.807550 Report

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I just bought three of them at a yard sale. Haven't cracked into one yet though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 16:21:52 No.807824 Report

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>>805766
Don't worry about it. Its like great grandparents condensed into a book, not a technical manual

>>805971
>the author
You mean a bunch of school kids and old folks. More like a compiler

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 16:58:16 No.807847 Report

Quoted By: >>812514 >>812719

>>804460
>>804672
Poorfag here - found digital copies of 1-6 via torrents.
Can anyone share 7-12 please?

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Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2016 09:59:41 No.808388 Report

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I gave these to my father in like 1985. He grew up in upstate NY in the 1930s, so he went hunting with his dogs and all that. He also enjoyed making things out of wood. So I thought the books were perfect for him. I'm more into reading and technology, but we camped a lot so I like reading /out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2016 10:51:28 No.808406 Report

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>>804931
>it's possibly just as correct as a textbook or as incorrect as your crazy assed uncle's advice on preserving possum by burying them in a pile of smoking leaves for an afternoon.

Hahahahahaha, it's that line in particular that has made me want to buy them now

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2016 22:31:28 No.808797 Report

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Bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2016 22:44:11 No.808811 Report

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>>804401
I got most of the collection from a used bookstore and it's definitely worth your time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Jul 2016 17:31:05 No.809319 Report

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>>805971
>He was notorious for extra circulars in the tents with young boys.

Got convicted for molesting a 10 year old.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Jul 2016 17:25:11 No.811269 Report

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>>804401
I love them.

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Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 00:07:21 No.811571 Report

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I made a fretless mountain banjo awhile back using a Foxfire book.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 06:04:53 No.812514 Report

Quoted By: >>812719

>>807847
did you find them?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 18:04:53 No.812719 Report

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>>807847
>>812514
Not free digital copies, no :/

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jul 2016 03:37:29 No.814959 Report

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>>804401
>What is /out/'s opinion on The Foxfire Books?
the type of info that is mostly ignored today but could be VERY useful one day and would have been lost if not for the work of a few far sighted folk.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 16 Jul 2016 21:38:52 No.815910 Report

Quoted By: >>816411

>>804401
survivorlibrary.com / library/ foxfire-one.pdf

or foxfire-two

I haven't tried any other links

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 16 Jul 2016 22:48:31 No.815954 Report

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>>805774
it's a shame, I really like the look of the covers in OP's image.

I've just started reading these online and I'm really impressed. Regardless of the usefulness of the advice, and it's not all advice anyway, there's some real passion behind these articles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2016 03:04:20 No.816129 Report

Quoted By: >>816176

>>804401
firefox five
This fifth volume celebrates the survival techniques and resourceful heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on ironmaking, blacksmithing, horseshoes, cowbells, shovels, bellows, barrells, furnaces, flintlock rifles, and bear hunting.
Gunmaking dude

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2016 03:14:49 No.816144 Report

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www.bookfinder.com lists several for sale; didn't check prices though.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2016 03:34:58 No.816176 Report

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>>816129
why aren’t you bitches makin' your own barrels

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2016 04:55:50 No.816225 Report

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I remember the chapter about ghost stories. That was interesting. Boogers as they called them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2016 14:15:22 No.816411 Report

Quoted By: >>816721

>>815910
>survivorlibrary.com / library/ foxfire-one.pdf
Only up to Fixfire 3 is available. 4+ gives you a 404 page.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2016 22:13:26 No.816721 Report

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>>816411
yeah. Three's enough to know if they're good or not though, I think.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 00:31:22 No.816839 Report

Quoted By: >>816850

If I follow the stuff in the book I will be okay right, like it isnt wrong and I will die?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 00:50:16 No.816850 Report

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>>816839
Probably. Not guaranteed though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Jul 2016 17:48:55 No.819588 Report

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