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For every job: what the pros charge, the tools you need, the steps, and the one mistake that gets people hurt.
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So here's an ordinary year on an ordinary place with some trees, a lawn and a wood stove, priced the way it really happens.
Your numbers will differ by region and property. The point doesn't: the book pays for itself the first time you don't make one call.
This is exactly what opens on your phone. Big, clear type you can read in the shop with sawdust on your hands. Tap any page to enlarge it.
Free videos give you a hundred voices, half of them wrong, none of them in order, and you can't hold a video with wet gloves. This is one clear method per job, laid out the same way every time.
Real price ranges, so you know what's at stake and what a fair quote looks like if you hire it out.
A checklist to gather first, plus what to buy, what to rent, and what to borrow.
Numbered, in order, in plain words. With 24 full-colour photos and illustrations where it helps.
The specific error behind most injuries on that job. Remember one thing per page, remember this.
From the woods to the kitchen sink, every job is one a homeowner pays for over and over, and almost none of them are hard once somebody shows you.
Read a tree, sharpen and tune the saw, fell, limb, buck, storm cleanup, the three-cut limb, pruning.
Grind, dig, rot or burn out stumps. Brush, vines, poison ivy, the brush pile.
Buy a true cord, split, season, chimney sweeping, stove gaskets, drafts that eat your heat.
Sharpen axes, blades, pruners, chisels and knives. Restore rusty tools. Build the bench.
The 3-thing test, carbs, plugs, pull cords, fuel mixes, surging mowers, snowblowers.
Prune fruit trees, cleft and bud grafting, weeds, lawns, raised beds, drip irrigation.
Sagging gates, rotted posts, wire fence, deck boards and stain, driveway cracks.
Gutters, downspouts, French drains, grading, sealing and safe washing.
Toilets, drains, faucets, outlets, breakers, drywall, dryer vents, water heaters.
And that's a fraction of it. Plus the year-round maintenance calendar, quick-reference charts (fuel mixes, chain files, firewood heat values), the "when to call a pro anyway" list, every job's price on one chart, and a savings tracker.
And it's almost always the same one. Here are four of the 101, straight from the book.
When the tip touches wood, the chain grabs and throws the bar up and back toward your face, faster than any human reaction.
Without a hinge, the tree isn't steered anymore. It can twist, fall sideways, or slide back off the stump toward you.
Ashes can hold live embers for days. A cardboard box or a bucket on the deck starts many house fires every winter.
Panels are often mislabeled and some boxes hold two circuits. The fix takes five seconds and costs fifteen dollars.
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Our grandparents sharpened their own chains, split their own wood, grafted their own apple trees and fixed their own engines. That knowing used to get handed down at the woodpile and over the workbench. Somewhere along the way, a lot of us stopped getting it, and started paying for it instead.
This book is that knowing, written down in plain words, in the right order, with the dangerous parts said out loud. I won't tell you every job is easy. Some end with a note telling you to call a professional, and I mean it. But most of what we pay for isn't skill. It's just not knowing. That part, this book fixes.
See you at the woodpile.
— Andre the Fixer
No, and I'll say it plainly so nobody's surprised. This is a digital book, a PDF. Nothing ships. About a minute after you pay, your download link arrives by email, and you can get a fresh link from the customer portal any time. If you want paper, print any pages you like; the calendar and charts are made for pinning up in the shop.
You don't need to be. You click the download button in your email and the book opens, the way a photo opens. No account, no password. If it doesn't open, email me and I'll walk you through it myself, or give you your money back.
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Some of it, scattered across a hundred videos, half of them contradicting each other, most skipping the dangerous part. This is one clear method per job, in order, with the price, the tools and the one mistake on the same page. And you can't scroll a video with gloves on and a saw in your hand.
Every job is rated Beginner, Handy or Experienced, and the book tells you which five to start with. Most of the 101 are beginner or handy jobs. Where a job really belongs to a professional, the book says so.
Probably more than you expect. Experienced folks tell us the "one mistake" boxes and the reference charts are what they use most, plus jobs outside their usual lane: grafting, carburetors, drainage, the home fixes.
The methods work anywhere. Prices are in US dollars and a few rules (like calling 811 before digging) are American, so check your local equivalents.
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