Pa Macs Most Influential Books

Pa Macs Most Influential Books - FHC Q & A

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In this episode of the Farm Hand's Companion Q and A Show, Pa Mac answers a viewer's question (Adam from Wisconsin) by outlining the 10 books that have had the greatest influence on Pa Mac's life.
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@adamjohnson7324 3 ай бұрын

Thanks pa Mac. I appreciate you getting back to me with your list.

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Well, Adam, it was a pleasure. You're very welcome, and I appreciate you watchin'!

@barlotardy 3 ай бұрын

Roy Underhill is a national treasure.

@shelleyparent4729 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing. Some of the books I didn’t know about. I am a grandma & wished I knew about them when I was a child. I am inspired to read them myself & send copies to the grandchildren. Thank you again!

@clarenceriffle320 3 ай бұрын

Great job the little house on the prairie was a book I learn alot from .plus I was lucky enough to meet and talk to men and women who farmed the old ways, Roy Underhill with his show made me love old tools and use them over new ones I've got a large number of books on farming and other things from the old days and love them deeply and if I find I forgot something I can go back and refresh and always working in relationship with god and the land is the key to success keep up the good work and god bless to you

@DWerner7822 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your list of the 10 most influential books you've read. I very much enjoyed watching. I agree with your appraisal of Roy's book, 'Khrushchev's Shoe'. It is a most excellent book. Admittedly, I didn't buy my copy. As I recall, a wise and kind merchant in Arkansas loaned it to me during my travels. I sincerely hope that the person that borrowed your book sees this episode and promptly returns your book.

@barbaravickroy7563 3 ай бұрын

#1 is also mine...and my copy is filled with notes...my daughter has ''dibs'' on that when l've gone to Glory. l do so agree about reading to your kids....in my troubled marriage, reading to my boys every night was a blessing to me and to them. My mother read Laura Ingalls Wilder's books to us, l read them to my kids, and they have read them to their kids. Seeing how reciting memorized Scripture helped keep the Ingalls family's spirits up during the Long Winter is an example to us all....memorize, memorize....and the Holy Spirit will pop those blessed words into your mind, when you really need them....anyway....thank you for another excellent video.

@ciphercode2298 3 ай бұрын

Excellent choices,especially #1😊 My sister bought me a book for Christmas a few years ago that I've also enjoyed entitled the backyard homestead. I found it to be very helpful, especially since I'm on a tiny 1/2 acre of land.

@elizabethjohnson475 3 ай бұрын

Excellent question and answer!

@JohnnyRay920 3 ай бұрын

I remember the book mobiles.

@Lonemoutainhomestead 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your list. I have to get a couple of those and give them a try. I just recently found your channel and have to say I thoroughly enjoy watching. I think it's a great thing that you let everyone know what an influence God has been in your life through this video. God bless and thank you for what you do.

@patriots1needed 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

@PapaPepper 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Pa! Finally picked up a couple of copies of your tree book, one for me (43) and one for my son (11). I should have done that years ago in 2017 after we met you in Harrison. Got me looking at the trees on our property way different. Been years since I thought if the Boxcar Children. Bible is our top book!!!

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

I hope you both enjoy the book, PapaPepper

@PapaPepper 3 ай бұрын

@@farmhandscompanion we have a lot so far, thanks

@johnreno9418 3 ай бұрын

What an excellent list of books that have helped shape you. It goes all to show what has gone into making you such a wonderful man. Keep on reading and sharing!

@daviddanielson3522 3 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks.

@RoryVanucchi 3 ай бұрын

Foxfire books are classics

@TheRancherAndTheWife 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Pa Mac! You are a legend sir

@preachersdayoff 3 ай бұрын

Great book list! I knew we shared the same side of the state and I suspected we had the same theology. I met Sproul once, neither one of us were impressed with the other in person.

@mcdonoughjim 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for your list. I love your authenticity and willingness to spread the Word.

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Jim

@wyatt5542 3 ай бұрын

Excellent testimony.

@GypsyBrokenwings 3 ай бұрын

Awesome list of books PA! I knew the Bible would be #1...

@douglasvantassel8098 3 ай бұрын

Great video, thank you for making these.

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

You bet, Douglas

@JacobvsRex 3 ай бұрын

I spent many hours listening to RC Sproul back in the day driving the mountains while driving to see my now wife

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

That's how I listened to him...in my truck

@aussieauntynette6892 3 ай бұрын

I knew The Bible would be #1! All I can say is .... "Amen" ✝️🙏✝️ Thank you for the list, I really appreciate and enjoy your vids and the effort you put in to make them. All the best from Australia 🇭🇲🦘🦘🐨🙏🐨🦘🦘🇭🇲 Edit: To remove duplicate line. Whoops.

@riverdalegardens544 3 ай бұрын

Excellent 10 picks! I enjoyed this video. Thx

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Thank YOU

@tommywilson4027 3 ай бұрын

I've been subscribed to this channel for a while now, and have always enjoyed it and learned alot too; I especially enjoyed this episode; not only is this man a very knowledgeable teacher of homesteading skills, and a man of many talents, but now I see that he is also a Brother in Christ.

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, Tommy

@michaelduncan6287 3 ай бұрын

Fox Fire books!

@deborahdanhauer8525 3 ай бұрын

I was hoping you would have the Foxfire books. I love them too. I also remember the Box Car Children, but I think it was from my children’s childhood rather than my own. I also had a book mobile! I would get all the books I could carry up the hill to my house. And have them read when she came back next month.❤️🤗🐝

@nicolegardner3341 3 ай бұрын

The Fruit of her Hands by Nancy Wilson and All Creatures Great and Small series by James Harriott. But winner by leaps and bounds, the Bible!!!!

@olddawgdreaming5715 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing Pa Mac. I received the book I recently bought from you "Common Trees and Their Uses" and I am having fun with it. It's well worth buying and will be used a lot around here. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred..

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for buyin' the book, Fred. I signed it especially for you. (I hope that was the right Fred, anyway.)

@lorishirron7326 3 ай бұрын

Hello my friend!!! Growing up the Laura Ingalls Wilder books had an impact on me. I love those books and reread them in my adulthood. That family living and surviving together and being resourseful just resonated with my own family dynamics. You know the knowledge our parents have from the old days. I wish i could capture all that my daddy knows. And as a side note ...I gave my dad a lot of those FoxFire books but someone borrowed them and you guessed it theyve never made it back! 😊

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Yes, Laura Ingalls Wilder was and is an American treasure. (Farmer Boy is the book that has so many stories that especially resonated with me...like the lemonade at the fair story). Shoot; we gotta get Lindsey's books back!

@lorishirron7326 3 ай бұрын

Maybe daddy needs to write his own book on farming, butchering, hunting, trapping, carpentry, you name it! He is like Pa and could always figure out or knew how to do all those things and we did them all together as a family!

@k.d.8924 3 ай бұрын

one of my most treasured possessions is my grandfather's Bible, filled with his notes. Some pages are nearly worn through from use; Especially Romans, and Hebrews.

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

That's truly a treasure, KD; and those are two good books to wear out.

@briansargent6154 3 ай бұрын

Somehow I knew the Bible would be Number one with Pa Mac...a good ckoice. From my childhood I loved the Mother West Wind Stories by Thornton Burgess. I also still cherish WILDWOOD WISDOM by Elsworth Jaeger. More recently I Cherish MERE CHRISTIANITY by C.S. Lewis. .

@williamwaha3193 3 ай бұрын

" The Little Red Hen " first collected by Mary Mapes Dodge in the ' St. Nicholas Magazine ' in 1874 . One of my absolute favorites .

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Yep, The Little Red Hen. My grandma kept that at her house and would read it to me. It made me hungry for fresh ground bread. I guess you could say it also influenced me greatly...but probably just to eat too much.

@michaelduncan6287 3 ай бұрын

A STRONG relationship with God will reflect in the QUALITY of ones handwork. Think Amish

@Jesus-is-His-name 3 ай бұрын

Great list PaMac, some how I knew what #1 would be 😊. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and being brave to include The Lord in your video, we need more and more of this in our generation. Blessings to you brother.

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watchin'!

@tommywilson4027 3 ай бұрын

Mr. Mack you would love the book entitled "what hath God Wrought" by William Grady; it is an American history written from a Biblical perspective. You have probably already read it, but if not, you would really enjoy it I think.

@JohnnyRay920 3 ай бұрын

I believe I saw a movie not too long ago about those animals and the outlaws.

@AllOutofBubblegum69 3 ай бұрын

Hello! Great video and thank you for everything you do. Would you consider doing a similar video exclusively for farming/homesteading related material? Manuals, books, almanacs, ECT? Would be much appreciated! Thanks again

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Sure will, AllOutofBubblegum69. Got it on the list.

@AllOutofBubblegum69 3 ай бұрын

@@farmhandscompanion Thank you sir

@Travecmo Ай бұрын

I completely forgot the boxcar children, wow what a great flashback thanks as always Pa Mac

@upandadam2870 3 ай бұрын

My brother, this is a beautiful list I hope encourages many people. Also, have you encountered Wendell Berry in your literary travels?

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Not extensively, but have read a bit of him

@petessmallfarmandhomestead 3 күн бұрын

Wow! It's crazy to me a couple of yours were also influential to me as well back the basics is a fantastic book, so much useful information! Box car children I was just talking with my brother the other day how it inspired some of my self sufficient ideas, I remember as a kid longing for a life where I relied on my own skills to survive. Check out some of Joel Salatins books I find them very interesting. Thanks for your great content it often inspired me as well

@farmhandscompanion 3 күн бұрын

Yep, I felt the same way about those boxcar kids!

@petessmallfarmandhomestead 3 күн бұрын

@@farmhandscompanion the little house books I read to my kids as an adult and was surprised some of the details that she had in those books.

@newenglandyankeeliving5052 3 ай бұрын

Mere Christianity by CS Lewis is one of the books that really enhanced my faith life

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Yes, indeed, a great book. You can hardly go wrong with Professor Lewis.

@FJBAFYFVFH 3 ай бұрын

I paid $50 for a full size sickle with a 7 ft handle w grab handle. It’s SHARP and Ollllddddd. Looks original. Was that a deal?

@rawbacon 3 ай бұрын

Can you suggest a book on lawnmower repair, I got a flyer in the mail yesterday from a local place charging 95 Dollars for a Mower Tune-up. I think I paid all of $129 for my mower, sure makes me glad I grew up knowing how to do these things myself. BTW On a more serious note if anyone is interested at looking at some of these books I know several are available on the Internet Archive, even if you prefer a hard copy it's nice to be able to take a look and make sure it's something you want.

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

Can you come fix my lawnmower? Nevermind; I'll just put the cows out there.

@k9six185 3 ай бұрын

Ya grab the family BIBLE first…..

@ironleatherwood 3 ай бұрын

Love Spurgeon, I've listened to around 100 of his sermons. Not a fan of RC and Piper because they teach that God doesn't offer all humans salvation. Most Calvinist don't completely understand what Calvinisim teaches. God bless y'all My favorite book is God's word, the Bible. The Bible is the only book that can be completely trusted.

@farmhandscompanion 3 ай бұрын

I don't want to get too deep on this on this particular platform (a "comments" section on KZfaq), but you're not accurate about Sproul and Piper's stance on that. Their teachings on the offer of salvation differs in no way from Spurgeon's.