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Vocation Creations
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Приєднався 21 січ 2020
I’m Erik. Professionally I am an Arborist. I am an expert tree climber, trainer and consultant but over the past few years I have been called more and more to crafting, forging, homesteading, salvaging and re-cycling things in order to make new things that one can't buy on Amazon.
I dream of growing all our vegetables myself, I build herb spirals and raised beds. A pond for the chickens to drink from in the summer and for the frogs. I should live on a farm, but we don’t, so I make do with the acre and a half that we have. My dream would be to work full time in my shop, either making just what I like or making custom furniture or artwork for clients.
Re-purposing materials gives me a real sense of satisfaction that I could never get from simply purchasing an item. There is so much junk lying around that no one would ever need to buy led lights, or electric motors and stuff like that ever again if you are willing to take apart the broken toys!
I dream of growing all our vegetables myself, I build herb spirals and raised beds. A pond for the chickens to drink from in the summer and for the frogs. I should live on a farm, but we don’t, so I make do with the acre and a half that we have. My dream would be to work full time in my shop, either making just what I like or making custom furniture or artwork for clients.
Re-purposing materials gives me a real sense of satisfaction that I could never get from simply purchasing an item. There is so much junk lying around that no one would ever need to buy led lights, or electric motors and stuff like that ever again if you are willing to take apart the broken toys!
Відео
Turning a bowl for the Marquise de Chelsea
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I am turning this bowl as a gift for someone special!
Live edge river table with epoxy resin
Переглядів 623 роки тому
Making myself a new computer desk using limbwood that I salvaged from a pruning job. re purposed legs and pearlescent resin!
Making a Robin's egg and resin mood light
Переглядів 1893 роки тому
I use an abandoned Robin's egg and epoxy resin to create a night light for my daughter.
Making overly intricate, monogrammed, cant hook handles on the lathe, with a neat resin pommel!
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I make a couple of new cant hooks for me and a buddy using antique hardware from broken hooks, add monograms and resin pommel! A bit overkill for such a tool, but when making a gift, it has to be awesome!
Turning an awesome bowl from a totally rotten log and coating with resin!
Переглядів 943 роки тому
I try turning a very rotten weeping mulberry into a live edge bowl and coat it with epoxy resin, with beautiful results! I use a faceplate, I still have no chuck...
How to throw limbs out of an evergreen tree
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Just a beginner tip for getting branches out of a spruce tree, and making sure they end up on the ground and not hung up.
Performing a climbing inspection on a spruce tree that was struck by lightning
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This tree was struck by lightning... Do I need to cut it down? this is an example of how I would perform a tree inspection for structural damage. Clients can choose from several cost options, ranging from a verbal discussion while I am physically inspecting the tree, to a detailed video presentation similar to this one.
Removing a limb under control; sometimes longer is better
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Just a quick tip on how to take off a limb under control. Most people think that the smaller the limb is, the more control you will have, but often you can use the weight and length of a limb to gain more control and accuracy with your throwing. Also, the less cuts you perform in a tree, the less time you are spending, therefore the more money you are making! Of course, all you seasoned Arboris...
Making a bowl / cup spinner for resin work, quick, easy, cheap, super hi -tech!
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I needed something to spin my bowls when I coat them in resin and I am famously impatient, so I have created the Spinner 2000! from an old bbq rotisserie motor and spit. The Ultra, high - tech and revolutionary, slow spinning device! I know it looks intimidating, but rest assured, you can build one of these for yourself too!:) And it works like a charm for it's intended purpose.
Turning a 12 inch, end grain bowl on a faceplate, and coating with epoxy resin
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I turn a butternut cookie on my lathe to make a large end grain bowl. Afterwards, I use the ultra high - tech, spinner 2000 to evenly coat the bowl in epoxy resin! I don't have any fancy tools, just a faceplate and some basic chisels. Thanks to mixkit for the cool music file: To the next round
Turning a French-style rolling pin in 5 minutes
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This is a simple beginner project, so good for me, the beginner! I do it quickly and mostly by eye with just some rough measurements.
How to turn a magic wand on a lathe
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I use a lathe to make an awesome magic wand from a piece of common lilac. It is such cool wood with the purple streaks in it! Stay tuned for an epic wand battle at the end!
Replacing a carburetor on a stihl ms200t easy fix for poorly running chainsaw
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Changing a carburetor on a Stihl ms200T for a cheap Chinese knockoff, bought from Amazon. I will never need to go to a small engine shop again! Save a ton of money and fix it yourself... How rewarding!
Restoring an old, broken Marttini of Finland fillet knife
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This is not an expensive knife, but it is nostalgic to my old friend. I take it in pieces and return it in functional condition again. It just goes to show you that you don't have to chuck your old things if you are willing to be a tad resourceful and don't mind spending some time!
Restoring an old skateboard salvaged from a ditch! custom artwork and resin!
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Restoring an old skateboard salvaged from a ditch! custom artwork and resin!
How to make a leather plaited horse lead rope at home
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How to make a leather plaited horse lead rope at home
Repairing a broken wooden sculpture
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Repairing a broken wooden sculpture
How to turn an acorn gold (or anything really)
Переглядів 764 роки тому
How to turn an acorn gold (or anything really)
A neat idea for handmade Christmas ornaments
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A neat idea for handmade Christmas ornaments
Make a lump of coal for Christmas gift!
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Make a lump of coal for Christmas gift!
Casting a wasp nest in a resin sphere
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Casting a wasp nest in a resin sphere
Making awesome - tasting hamburger buns from scratch! (just a spoon and a bowl)
Переглядів 404 роки тому
Making awesome - tasting hamburger buns from scratch! (just a spoon and a bowl)
How to make a Minecraft "Creeper" birthday cake from scratch!
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How to make a Minecraft "Creeper" birthday cake from scratch!
how to make a leather horse riding crop at home
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how to make a leather horse riding crop at home
Harvesting and processing a small Wheat plot by hand
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Harvesting and processing a small Wheat plot by hand
forging a pirate's small sword (rapier)
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forging a pirate's small sword (rapier)
Making a deerskin wrapped Small Sword (rapier) Scabbard
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Making a deerskin wrapped Small Sword (rapier) Scabbard
how to make an herb spiral and waterfall
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how to make an herb spiral and waterfall
Wow ! The owner must have been very pleased :)
Interesting, thanks for sharing... even more so just the process you shown has so much Scriptural value into the process it amazed me and my children so thank you for that.
What is the yellow tape used to secure broken piece while repairing it
Awesome project. Looks rad!
Flail's not so good on a concrete floor.
Thanks for this video. I saw someone else use hot glue to make the "dam" around the hole at the top; that looked easier than the tape.
I had to stop the video to count how many fingers you had.
Where did you get the "Spinner 2000"? Or where can it be found?
I saw from ukraine i kind of wheat that harvest not seed a kibd of chalk flour inherit beneath the grass its true or not?!
man your working desk was giving me anxiety the whole time! :-) I´m not sure I would word it it´s "usually" the carburetor, it tends to be one or another of a number of things and first thing to do should probably not be just bold replacement of one of the most expensive things that can cause such symptoms. also, even if it is the carb, there are options to fix it without buying the whole new carb. I went on to watch this specifically to see how the new carb comes tuned off and how you tune it up and it seems like it was tuned perfectly already. was it? it´s hard to believe for me.. :-)
I wonder how many mice are dining under the deck😳
Super cool! Great work!
You 42 cromosomes in your wheat = gut . You need einkorn , emmer or Kamut. Thanks.
Hi.. YES SIR...LOVE THE FINISH LOOKS REALLY GREAT...LIKED THE WAY YOU DID IT.. DAVID AUSTRALIA..
Thank you sir! Yes, that bbq motor really does a great job of evenly coating the bowl!
Thats pretty cool
Wow.
Those are cool. Happened upon your channel because of your wheat video. Thanks!
Inspiring video. Thank you
I bet your son is real proud to have a crop his dad handmade. I know I would be. Very cool!
I've struggled with winnowing.
It's cool to see handy work like that!!
How many hours was that total labor and how many sqft of planting for what yield? if you had to feed yourself through the winter with wheat, do you think it could be done with one middle aged person? It looks like you might have resulted in a full day of labor for maybe two full days of bread in this video, but I could be wrong. I'm interested in this process for the survival aspects. So many people do the threshing with electricity, but I wonder how it goes without any. Also I hear a lot about "hull", after winnowing, is the part you grind for flour still encased in a hull? Do you have to remove it? Or do you grind the whole thing up into flour? Hard for me to tell without seeing the result up close.
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Thank you excellent video!
I just put the carb on mine and it still doesnt run right. If i gas it and try to start it, itll run until i let off the gas and itll die and wont start again
thats what mine does I just bought the new 201tc for 800
Air leak , probably the pulse pipe or rubber manifold
Honestly, threshing the wheat by foot might have been less labor intensive than the flail.
I love grappling books
I came here because of the parable off the weeds in the Bible hahah (Matthew 13:24-30)
Nicee,
What is the name of the white glue you use?
Sorry, I can not remember the exact brand, but it was just plain wood glue.
Any PVA wood glue will do. The brand doesn't matter. It's very strong: often claimed to be stronger than the wood it's repairing! Dries almost clear, but wipe off as much excess as possible. It's good stuff.
Landed on this, and finally understand sooo many biblical statements! Thank youuuuuuuu!!!
Biblical meanings are so awesome. Thanks for sharing
Fascinating, today in the UK I saw a huge combine and truck harvesting the mechanised way. I bet most people have no idea how to harvest wheat ! With this food crisis this could become a useful skill.
I bet they do know how. Farmers know the history of wheat production and could educate all of us on how to produce a substantial harvest and how to dehull the wheat berries. Don't mock a farmer. They know how things worked in the past to the present.
[10:06] Better make another one!
Thank you for this! The visual was EVERYTHING!
I wouldn't bother turning that into flour. I would just cook them the way they are and make a wheatberry salad or wheat berry breakfast like oatmeal.
@End Times Are upon us couldn't agree more. I just made this as a side salad rather than macaroni salad fur a family BBQ. Even the fussiest of eaters loved it
Fine. If you want to watch old Italian scenes Storie di civiltà contadina veneta ITALIA ua-cam.com/video/-azZVkPLwis/v-deo.html
Why not soak in vinegar to remove shell
I have never tried, but I imagine vinegar might dissolve the surface of the resin too..? It would certainly take a while to melt off the egg shell and I am personally too impatient!
perhaps spray the inside of the cleaned egg shell with mold release.
That is a great idea!
How long did it come out to I'm trying to do a 8 strand round braid with core and I need it 10 ft long
Mine ended up slightly under 6' long. Sorry, I don't remember how long the strips of leather were, but I use the rule of thumb of 3.5 times the length of the leather for whatever you are covering. I also wet the leather and stretch it longer while I plait sometimes.
New subscriber. Just venturing on our own wheat adventure this year for the first time.😂. We’ll be recording for our channel, too. Great job.
Thank you for your comments! I have a new job that is keeping me too busy to pay attention to youtube these days, so no new videos for a while now.. good luck with your wheat, it is a rewarding bit of hard work! Let me know if you need to borrow a flail! ;)
Beautiful 👌
Thank you! That is very kind of you to say!
What's the diameter of the core? I have some fiberglass markers that are around 5/16" and I'm not sure if it's too thick to make one.
I can't find the leftover piece I have, but I am pretty sure it was 1/4".. I remember it being thinner than a wooden pencil
@@vocationcreations3149 thanks for answering! 👍
@@asurasyn my pleasure, sorry I couldn't be more specific.. I did rummage around for that spare piece but I think my wife threw it out!!
It takes roughly 1/3 of an acre to produce enough wheat for a small family. Not hard to do by hand at all, you will get better with time. There are grain separators that you can make very easily that separate the berries with a fairly high efficiency and all you have to do is drop it into a hopper and keep the machine fed until it’s all done. You can honestly make one with cardboard and computer fans for free if you have them laying around. It can process all the wheat for your entire family for a year in an hour. Get a large tarp, fold your wheat into it, beat it thoroughly (probably will take an hour) just like you did. Remove the stems and larger stuff, then dump the rest into your simple homemade chaff separator. The harvest takes the longest, but it’s honestly not that bad to just go out into the field with a satchel and scissors and just keep emptying the satchel into a wagon or gator until the field is empty. If all you bring back are wheat heads, the process of getting the berries out goes a lot faster. Set aside your seed stock, the rest is yours. It’s roughly a 70x70 wheat field for one persons average annual wheat supply. 140x140 for a family of 4. This should also leave you seeds for the next year
Thank you for this comment! You know, I have asked many people how much land to grow enough wheat and no one could ever give me a reasonable answer, so this is great. I agree, there are easier ways to do what I did, but I wanted the by-hand experience. Thank you for taking the time to send out this thorough reply and instructional, if I do it again I will make the chaff separator for sure. I have to admit that I still have berries in my fridge from that harvest. I did not attempt to build a mill and I had a lot of trouble getting it fine enough to use with blender and mortar and pestle. It ended up being something that I added to processed flour to make it more interesting, but I never managed to get it fine enough to make bread from my own flour alone.
@@vocationcreations3149 if you end up buying a flour mill, they are fairly reasonable. Typically I would recommend grinding your berries on a medium setting, sifting the bran out, then grind again on fine. There are some mills made for this, they have a automatic sifter on top of the mill for you to pour your medium grind into. It will sift out most of the bran and send the rest back into the mill. If you use a bender or whatever, just sift the flour after and you will have some very nutritious flour that is perfect for making breads. You can also just eat the bran with raisins and milk for the healthiest Raisin Bran you have ever eaten.
@@bleeblin5252 thanks for the tips, maybe I will plant a plot again this year. I am still under 3' of snow at the moment...!
@@vocationcreations3149 that’s crazy. Sorry to hear you still have so much snow. Thanks for the kind responses. If you do plant more wheat, give us a video. Take care
I did the same for my MS. 200t. _Is running great with the carb from China. The thing about it is the original stihl carburettor is it is made in China as well.
Of course it is! Probably they all come from the same factory..!
I tried this several different times and every time the shell had to be sanded off which made them uneven and odd shaped. Any tips you could give me?
It has been a while since I tried these, but if I were to speculate... Is it possible that the shells were still a bit wet inside when you poured the resin? I took the shells off after about 24 hrs. It is possible that if one tries to take the shells off too early, the resin could be stickier, or if they were left for much longer than 24 hrs, perhaps the fully cured resin is also fusing to the shells? At 24 hrs, my resin is cured, but still soft enough to cut with a knife. After 3 days it is rock hard. I suppose it could be the egg shells themselves? Have you tried different types of eggs? Also, there are tons of different types of epoxy resin, so maybe your resin doesn't like the egg shells, or likes them too much? Unfortunately, the stuff I have been using, while well priced, has no brand name or details that I could share. I had a sticky one in the video as well. I trimmed the shell off with a pocket knife, but there were a couple of spots that were pretty stuck. I also had one overheat in the shell and the resin egg came out cracked apart. I am sorry that it did not work for you. If I think of anything else I will reply again!
Thank you so much back to me. I'll probably did leave it in too long .I did find an easier way to take shell off of the ones I already did. I put one in a cup of water for a day and half then took my knife and scraped it right off with any trouble or messing the egg up. 😃 And again thank you I've been following your blog and you do great work and help a beginner out a lot.
@@tiamadden8439 I am so happy that you enjoy, and find something useful from my videos! I sometimes wonder why I make them, since I am not really looking for fame and fortune from youtube, but when even one person like you makes a comment like this, I remember how great it feels to be helpful and appreciated for it! thanks again, I appreciate the positive feedback. I have been on a low motivation stint from making videos and this sparks the urge to get back at it! Happy New Year!
Happy new year to you too. And have blessed year.
the bit with yer daughter (?) made me laugh and I appreciate yer amazing work (it also teach me about a part I am struggling with) but yer homemade water thing is awful
I am happy that you found something amusing, and something useful. Too bad that you felt you had to jump on the watering can trashing trend, but I guess I deserve to have my feelings hurt for making that terrible thing... It was just to apply water gently so that the seeds would stay put until they sprouted. I was using a barrel to water, so no pressure for a nozzle. It actually did exactly what I wanted it to do and I didn't have to leave the house to go and buy anything from a store.
@@vocationcreations3149 well that's a good idea if yer too lazy/poor to go to store...
@@aksaraylicelali Thank you for your comments and for watching!
That was a neat experiment. I’d probably get a cement mixing tray and dump the bowl into that so you are less likely to loose the seeds. But now I want to try doing this. I remember when I lived in TN I used to see wheat growing wild. I wish it grew wild in SC.
Thank you, yes, there were many ways this could have been easier but I am a glutton for punishment..! I like your channel, I will be looking through your videos when I can! And I am jealous of your farm and your hardiness zone... I am up in Canada and in Zone 4, so not much of a growing season. I always wanted a farm, but we ended up on an acre and a half. It is enough for me to have chickens and some gardens, but no other livestock. I feel your idea of the forest garden. I am a tree guy and if I had the hardiness zone for it, all of my plantings would bear edible fruit.. I have always read permaculture books and tried to apply what I could to our situation. It takes planning, patience and a ton of work, but the feeling of accomplishment when reaping the rewards can not be replicated.
@@vocationcreations3149 yeah I’m in zone 8 and I can grow a lot. I don’t get alot of chill hours though. I’ve recently started looking for stuff that grows naturally in my area. Native fruits, nuts, berries and vegetables. A buddy of mine just gave me a bunch of wild persimmons and I harvested the seeds out of them. I have a little more than 8 acres. Most of it is timber. But I got it pretty cheap back in 2014 and moved onto it about 2 and a half years ago. I want to buy more land but money is tight right now. We moved from our 1 acre homestead and basically started from scratch.
@@rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291 Oh, the trees I would grow in Zone 8! And all the other things of course. It sounds great, good luck to you. I hope your forest grows into what you wish for it.
Really nice work. Thanks for the video
Thank you, I hope that it was helpful somehow! I have gotten better since this video and have sold a couple on Etsy now! They take a while to make though and it is hard to sell them for enough to make it worthwhile.
So how much did this end up producing? Was this just a trial run before you decided to do it on a large scale? And is there a reason behind the homemade water thing? Will a regular sprayer be to much for the seeds?
I got a large stainless steel bowl of wheat berries after everything.. ua-cam.com/video/WKLbwubx1cU/v-deo.html this is the video of the harvest. I like to try things the old or hard way; I know that there are many easier methods to process wheat. I like to know that I can "do" these things, so I did this more as an experience than anything. It is a ton of work though and I have to admit that I buy most of my flour... I made the homemade water thing because the plot is too far away for a garden hose and I was watering out of a rain barrel by gravity. I couldn't use a store bought nozzle since there is not enough pressure with the barrel, and I wanted to gently water the seeds, so that my rows stayed true and I thought the trickle that it produced was pretty good! After the plants grew a bit I switched to just using the hose with my thumb over the hole. Thank you for your comment and the questions!