Building a Saxon House with Hand Tools: Timber Frame Bushcraft Project (PART 3)
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Date: 2019-09-10
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Richard Agee
I know its a little late. But for future use. U can make a tool for easy bark removal. Just need a piece of. 1 1/2 wide flat steel. Round off one end like a spoon end and put a slight bend in it flatways. Thin down the sides a little bit but not sharp. After you do your length cut in the bark, simply slide it in and work it along the tree with a slight twisting motion. With no sharp edges it wont cut into the wood or bark. If you cant make out what I'm explaining but would be something u could use let me know (richardageeoutlook. com) and I will make you one. Love the videos. Keep up the great work. Love how humble you guys are and the relationship you have with your father. Have spent the entire day today 6/13/2019 on the anniversary of my father's death watching you guys. Thank you for helping me get through the day this year.
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I know its a little late. But for future use. U can make a tool for easy bark removal. Just need a piece of. 1 1/2 wide flat steel. Round off one end like a spoon end and put a slight bend in it flatways. Thin down the sides a little bit but not sharp. After you do your length cut in the bark, simply slide it in and work it along the tree with a slight twisting motion. With no sharp edges it wont cut into the wood or bark. If you cant make out what I'm explaining but would be something u could use let me know (richardageeoutlook. com) and I will make you one. Love the videos. Keep up the great work. Love how humble you guys are and the relationship you have with your father. Have spent the entire day today 6/13/2019 on the anniversary of my father's death watching you guys. Thank you for helping me get through the day this year.
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John Phillips
Awesome video Really liking this buildI know you're always looking for suggestions Mike, thought i would throw something your way. Since most of your builds are centered around structures and dwellings, what about making a workshop/blacksmith house or shelter. Was watching your hatchet build with Alec Steele again and thought how cool it would be if you guys did that out in the woods. I've been thinking of starting one in my backyard but not sure what way to go, thinking it would be a cross between a viking house, Saxon house, bush-craft camp. just on a smaller scale. Doesn't need to be just for blacksmiths but could be used for deer butchering, fish/game cleaning and prepping, etc. Just a thought. Figure i'm going to start something here in the states soon.
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Awesome video Really liking this buildI know you're always looking for suggestions Mike, thought i would throw something your way. Since most of your builds are centered around structures and dwellings, what about making a workshop/blacksmith house or shelter. Was watching your hatchet build with Alec Steele again and thought how cool it would be if you guys did that out in the woods. I've been thinking of starting one in my backyard but not sure what way to go, thinking it would be a cross between a viking house, Saxon house, bush-craft camp. just on a smaller scale. Doesn't need to be just for blacksmiths but could be used for deer butchering, fish/game cleaning and prepping, etc. Just a thought. Figure i'm going to start something here in the states soon.
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Mark Cash
Next on TA Outdoors we build a medieval castle using traditional methods only. Part 1: Dad and I captured some local villagers and put them to work hauling rock from a local quarry. Raiding the primary school was easy but they don't work very hard and cry a lot. It totally wasn't worth the effort expended in their capture, much less the cost to feed them and keep track of their parental permission slips for the field trip. It was going well until Alec Steel showed up with a hoard of well armed and armored soldiers. Luckily they were just looking for a place to build another smithy and all castles need a smithy.
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Next on TA Outdoors we build a medieval castle using traditional methods only. Part 1: Dad and I captured some local villagers and put them to work hauling rock from a local quarry. Raiding the primary school was easy but they don't work very hard and cry a lot. It totally wasn't worth the effort expended in their capture, much less the cost to feed them and keep track of their parental permission slips for the field trip. It was going well until Alec Steel showed up with a hoard of well armed and armored soldiers. Luckily they were just looking for a place to build another smithy and all castles need a smithy.
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C B
Is this your own land that you're building it on? How the heck do i find a place where i am allowed to build my own structures without having some out of touch busy body harassing me for not following the rules or causing disruption. This is great to see but it really saddens me that things like this have become so alien to modern people that now it seems the act of being immersed in nature is considered uncivilised and against some arbitrary set of rules. Since when did nature and its materials become something to only be observe from a concrete, signposted path? This mentality hurts me soul. Anyway, great job guys
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Is this your own land that you're building it on? How the heck do i find a place where i am allowed to build my own structures without having some out of touch busy body harassing me for not following the rules or causing disruption. This is great to see but it really saddens me that things like this have become so alien to modern people that now it seems the act of being immersed in nature is considered uncivilised and against some arbitrary set of rules. Since when did nature and its materials become something to only be observe from a concrete, signposted path? This mentality hurts me soul. Anyway, great job guys
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Kijuma
You could use pine tar for water-proofing the wood. It really depends on the type of pine but I think you could make tar with some of the grounded pine trees found there. To get pine tar you basicly have to cook resinous pieces of pine, preferrably into some sort of container but don't forget that tar is very good with catching fire, so keep that in mind. You might want to look up some variants of the process if it truly catches your interest. Making tar might also give you some charcoal as a bonus.
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You could use pine tar for water-proofing the wood. It really depends on the type of pine but I think you could make tar with some of the grounded pine trees found there. To get pine tar you basicly have to cook resinous pieces of pine, preferrably into some sort of container but don't forget that tar is very good with catching fire, so keep that in mind. You might want to look up some variants of the process if it truly catches your interest. Making tar might also give you some charcoal as a bonus.
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Petersen
It is a pleasure watching these building projects, been following since the Viking house. One thing I've learned in building and repairing (barbed wire) fenching is that wooden poles tend to rot first at ground level: where moisture and air concentrations are highest. Underground there is little oxygen, so the rotting process is slower, as is above ground, where water drips off. My advice would be to burn a larger part of the logs that make contact with the ground.
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It is a pleasure watching these building projects, been following since the Viking house. One thing I've learned in building and repairing (barbed wire) fenching is that wooden poles tend to rot first at ground level: where moisture and air concentrations are highest. Underground there is little oxygen, so the rotting process is slower, as is above ground, where water drips off. My advice would be to burn a larger part of the logs that make contact with the ground.
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MurderinkAustralia
If you want everything level, you can tie a rock to the end of a rope and hang from above for vertical leveling (which should be period accurate and its called a plumb bob) and if you fill a cow intestine with water and hold in a U shape should give horizontal leveling (called a water level. Both of these methods have been successfully used throughout the ages. Hope that makes sense and helps.
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If you want everything level, you can tie a rock to the end of a rope and hang from above for vertical leveling (which should be period accurate and its called a plumb bob) and if you fill a cow intestine with water and hold in a U shape should give horizontal leveling (called a water level. Both of these methods have been successfully used throughout the ages. Hope that makes sense and helps.
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Stevie D
Hi Mike, Hope all is well and looking forward to Summer. Can't wait for that and your Dad's uploads on TA Fishing through the warm summer months. His videos are a Staple and i can't wait for Graeme to get 200K. Really Special i feel and i hope you Celebrate that for him when it happens. He's the greatest. The quality of the filming and real life content is unmatched. Enough said really. Steve in Fife.
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Hi Mike, Hope all is well and looking forward to Summer. Can't wait for that and your Dad's uploads on TA Fishing through the warm summer months. His videos are a Staple and i can't wait for Graeme to get 200K. Really Special i feel and i hope you Celebrate that for him when it happens. He's the greatest. The quality of the filming and real life content is unmatched. Enough said really. Steve in Fife.
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Darrell Rackley
Suggestion for pealing logs. I am not sure if you have thought of it or have tried it and don't like it. I found that pealing logs is a lot easier if you put a stopper log right behind you frame about 2-3 inches higher that way you do not have to use your body to stop the log from sliding backwards. I have used it for years. If this does not make sense let me know i can send you a blueprint.
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Suggestion for pealing logs. I am not sure if you have thought of it or have tried it and don't like it. I found that pealing logs is a lot easier if you put a stopper log right behind you frame about 2-3 inches higher that way you do not have to use your body to stop the log from sliding backwards. I have used it for years. If this does not make sense let me know i can send you a blueprint.
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Kim Curtis
Burning or charring the ends of the posts also hardens them The American Indian as well as the Ancient peoples of the world used this for hardening the ends of their spears It works quite well. I'm enjoying this series as much as the Viking House build I wish I wasn't disabled so I could do this where I live It would be great fun and my Grandsons could get a workout and learn something, tooKUDOS
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Burning or charring the ends of the posts also hardens them The American Indian as well as the Ancient peoples of the world used this for hardening the ends of their spears It works quite well. I'm enjoying this series as much as the Viking House build I wish I wasn't disabled so I could do this where I live It would be great fun and my Grandsons could get a workout and learn something, tooKUDOS
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