The Field Manual

Everything we know about getting a trade business found online is landing in here, free, no email, no gate — 7 manuals are readable today, the rest are mapped and stamped below. A library this size gets built one manual at a time, in the open, and the stamp on every card tells you where that one actually stands.

Why give it away? You read how this actually works, you see how much of it you can do with your own two hands, and you also see how much real work it is. Then you decide. Plenty of what's in here you never have to hire anybody for. Some of it, once you see the size of it, you might. Either way you'll be a hell of a lot harder to fog, because you'll know the ground a vendor is standing on.

This is written for the person who runs the trade — and for whoever runs the screen. When a step is login work best handed to that person, we say so. When it's a phone-and-truck job, we say that too. Nobody's assumed to be a computer person.

Permit pending means it's mapped and coming, not written yet. Passed final means it's done. A manual card can read Passed final while chapters inside it aren't written yet — that's why the card counts chapters mapped, not chapters written.