Steward Community Woodland - Resources Index

Below is our growing collection of DIY 'how to' guides. Originaly we planned to write up how we built various things at Steward Wood but we soon learnt that different people, resources and situations call for different approaches. We switched to writing guides based on techniques and ideas rather than as step by step instructions. The collection has grown and now includes guides for stuff we have not yet built ourselves. While most have be written by members of the project, some are based on guides found elsewhere. A few (usually in PDF) are the unedited work of other people. If you have a guide that you think might be of interest to visitors of this website then please let us know. We intend to produce leaflet versions of some of these guides and will provide PDF versions when we do so. If you create printable version of any of the guides, please send us the files so we can make them available here.

Online DIY guides

* ... have a productive meeting
* ... build consensus
* ... make beams without a sawmill
* ... turn a chainsaw into a sawmill
* ... make mauls or mallets
* ... make and use a bunjip
* ... make a bender
* ... build a yurt [PDF]
* ... build a small charcoal kiln
* ... make and use a solar oven
* ... build woodstoves [PDF]
* ... build a wood fired hot tub
* ... make washable sanitary towels
* ... build a compost bin
* ... build a treebog
* ... make your own paper
* ... make a peg loom and rag rugs
* ... use natural plant based dyes
* ... build a cycle power generator
* ... make diesel from vegetable oil
* ... setup a small hydro system
* ... make a small nukiller reactor
* ... make a bomb

.. guides under construction now

* How to make a water filter
* How to manage a communal vehicle
* How to build a slow cooker
* How to light a fire and use a burner

.. other guides planned at some point

* How to construct and use a pole lathe
* How to make a shaving horse
* How to make a saw horse
* How to fell a tree
* How to make meetings painless and efficient
* How to form a housing/workers coop.
* How to identify and prepare wild foods
* How to build a wind generator
* How to convert a milk churn into a burner
* How to treat and reuse grey water
* How to construct your own nuclear deterrent

@nti-copyright. You are welcome to copy and distribute any of our 'guides in any form, with or without crediting the source as long as it is for non commercial use. If you plan to sell any of this information for profit, in any form, then you should get our consent.

Disclaimer. We can not guarentee that you will get any of the stuff to work as described. If you try any of this stuff you do so at your own risk. If you think that is unfair then don't use the guides. While we endevor to check the accuracy of the information in these guides, we can not guarentee that all the information is correct. If you find an error or have comments, additions or improvements that you think should be included, please let use know.