Three Years of the Log Cabin - How's it Held Up?
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One thing they’ll need to create is a root cellar if they plan on trying to preserve things other than potting or salting them. Plus I’d love to see them get into the subject of beds and bedding in that time period.
I was just about to ask about the beds😂
Everyone should be planning and making root cellars for the times ahead.
I would really love to see them make a root cellar!
@@nordicson2835 We have a crawlspace under our living room, in our basement, that seems ideal to do this.
@@nordicson2835 Sadly I live in front of a cemetery. If I start digging back there people aren’t going to take too kindly to it. ;)
To be honest the cabin video was the turning point in this channel. This channel has become a documentary series more than just a cooking channel.
It's not really either. It's a living history channel. It teaches history by living in it and using it as a tool.
@@docthemedic The channel is documenting the living history project they're undertaking.
I've been a subscriber since they were just starting to build the cabin, its nuts that its been 3 years! Popularity and production wise it feels like on another level.
agreed. the chanel has become a wonderful education tool about history in general from this time period, and it is amazing to see continue to develop
The food brought us here, the home kept us here.
I remember when Jon first uploaded a video saying he was sick of the cooking video routine every week and wanted to expand his horizons. Usually, when a UA-cam channel gets big, they relegate themselves to whatever it was that made them popular or got them the most views. The output becomes... uniform. When the first log cabin video went up after Jon's "rant", I realized how serious he was about _not_ falling into that pattern. Jon is not a UA-camr. He's a genuine, passionate historian who just so happens to share that passion on UA-cam. It is that distinction that guarantees the longevity of Townsends.
He honestly needs his own show
People click for the content but stay for the personality, he brings such a wholesome and genuine atmosphere whilst also maintaining a kind of professionalism in his narration.
Well said.
as much as I like all the other stuff they do, my heart truly goes out to all the delicious cooking videos. and to their store which is also a good way to support them.
@@BlackMasterRoshi I agree, I love all the content but the cooking videos are always my favorite
It's been three years already? It feels like yesterday when you went around looking at log cabins and researching stuff so you can build your own. 😊
ikr, at most it felt like it's the same season in which the new roof came on lol
Same. Quarantine and all of the social/ political drama has definitely skewed our perception of time, but still. Three years... wow.
I know, right? It's crazy how time flies.
exactly!!!
It has been a wonderful journey that they've shared with us, though are we now going to see the teased Big House being built? 😀
I remember how worried I was when I watched Jon's upset at the response the channel got to the Orange Fool episode (July 2017). I was afraid that social media toxicity was going to cost us the Townsend's YT videos. I'm so glad that y'all didn't give in and have instead flourished. I've loved watching you every step of the way. Townsend's is perhaps the most wholesome and educational channel on this platform. The channel had around 300,000 subscribers at the time of the Orange Fool nonsense and has more than 2 million today. I think that I'm not the only one who gets a lot out of watching Townsends. Congratulations on another remarkable year, and may 2023 bring you joy. 👏
I really didn't blame him for getting angry. Injecting modern politics into the comment section on a video about 18th century food is rather upsetting to me as well because i and many others come here to escape that foolishness.
Boy tell me about it. I was super annoyed right there with him when he made the video (remember that one too).
What happened?
@Colin B tons of people flooded the comments of a video about a revolutionary war Era frozen custard with political comments both for and against the former president. It greatly angered Mr. Townsend.
Here here🍻
I’ve always enjoyed your cooking, and nutmeg tavern videos, but by far, my favorite Townsends content has been your homestead series. Congrats on your channel growth, and thank you for all you do to provide us all with fantastic living history content to enjoy!
Same -- the homestead videos fill me with excitement every time I see one.
As a history teacher I truly love your channel and all the recreating you do on here.
Watching this cabin and homestead come together over the years has been a joy!
Please continue to add and refurbrish it.
Thank you so much!
You definitely need to show your class his videos if/when you can, If they had played this in class I would be absolutely glued to the screen.
Since it's near the winter season, can you do an episode on how they made sleds, or sleighs in the 18th century in North America? That would be interesting to see . Cheers!
Are you following Engles Coach Shop?
@@thirzapeevey2395 I'm not. I should check them out. Cheers!
Or an acoustic version of Nantucket Sleigh Ride
Being a carpenter of 30 years I've watched EVERY cabin/homestead video since the very first one...
And have very much enjoyed and appreciated every minute of them!
Thank you, keep them coming!
Thank you for your work. My kitchen remodel I've taken on has given me a HUGE amount of respect for folks like you and your skills. Just wanted to say your work is meaningful and appreciated sir. Thanks for literally building our world and making it both useful and beautiful.
@@AaronGrosch29 what else? Have you thought about how that grow there food back then ,how that pl0wed their field? 8t would be interesting
Three years already, wow. This series started right at a particularly transformational time in my life and it's been one of my getaways from worries. Thanks for all you guys do.
It's more than living history, it's living science and experimenting.
It's been a great journey watching the homestead rise from the ground by your hands and then evolve into what it is today. I can't even begin to imagine what it must mean to you. Thank you all!
Ah i'm gonna watch this by candlelight with a cat on my lap. Always a treat to settle down for a Townsends video as we savour the flavours and the aromas of the 18th century.
In my state of Connecticut, we have a place called Old Sturbridge Village, a living 1800s township that serves as a museum/history society. I must have gone there five times as a kid, loving each time I went, because I got to blacksmith making tools and sundries, the loom weavers, and the cooks at the bakery making the best bread I've ever smelled. You bring me back to those days every time I hear your fascination with the past, because you hit it out of the park with you're unending positivity and excitement about sharing your passions.
Thank you for following your passion and giving us, your viewers, a chance to share in it. I can't wait to see what you come up with next! Even if it's just a neat little bowl you made or a barn to make the Amish green with envy. Just hearing your voice will put a smile on my face.
I know you didn’t plan your building project to align with the start of the pandemic, but the timing was perfect. l was so grateful to come across your channel three years ago. I’m sure a lot of people feel the same way I do. Back then, I was looking for calming, relaxing videos to take my mind off the pandemic and the fact I was unemployed, broke, and nobody was hiring because of the lockdowns. Your channel is a great escape from the harsh realities of modern life.
A few period correct things that will extend the life of the cabin and any future buildings.
1 Lay Birch bark under the base logs. This has been done for milenia in northern europe. Norway rates a birch bark underlayment for 250 years. This will prevent the base logs from rotting.
2 Oil, oil the shingles. Boiled linseed is the best but any vegetable oil will work.
3 Lime plaster. Make a batch of quick lime and mix with sand and crushed clay. Apply over the chinking. It can even be used over the entire wall if desired, but would be a lot of work.
4 You can oil the logs also.
5 you can lime plaster the inside of the fireplace
This has been a marvelous project to get to witness over the years. With y'all racing the weather the first year, I was wondering when you were going to put a better cladding on the roof -- which I think has been the single most important addition (and the new door). If you can't stay warm and dry, then you're going to have a hard time. After that, it's harder to decide which is the biggest improvement. For me, it's probably a tie between the blacksmithing area and the well (local water, always a welcome luxury). You need hard tools on a homestead, and nothing beats having a smithy to forge what you need and repair what you break.
John - I used to do Rev. War reenacting and early frontier reenacting and your cabin project is amazing! I have been in many historic fort sites as well as garrison huts and from what I can see your cabin could be lived in year round if a person wanted to be off grid and live as our ancestors did in the past. This is a positive thing for your channel as well as your business and as I am an American history teacher, I show your videos to my students and they love them and even ask to see the latest historical living or cooking videos! Some have even cooked some of your recipes and brought the food in to share! Thank you again for what you do and please know that you and the rest of your team do make a difference in the lives of so many people and it is a real blessing! Thank you again! Brian Stuart Kesterson MA. Ed. - History Department - Williamstown High School - Williamstown, West Virginia.
You started on my son's 29th birthday! September 16th is a great day to birth a cabin! 😁
I have wanted to live in a cabin like this since I was a child and read the "Little House on the Prairie" books. I realized recently that my grandma wanted me to read them because her life was very much like that on a subsistence farm in Minnesota 1920s - 1940s. They moved "to town" when my grandma got her "normal" degree to teach school (before a university degree was needed). As she taught, she continued her education as the times changed.
Mexico's "4th of july"....No Joke.
You need a roof for the chimney that extends a few inches beyond the borders and sits on four legs at least 3" tall. The sides are the vents but the roof keeps water etc out. This channel is so cool.
I’ve loved the homestead series! Now that you’ve made bricks, a brick chimney top could be added to stop the slow erosion of the Cobb clay at the top.
Saw it from the beginning. Like a relative's kid, I appreciate seeing it grow and change. Thank for the update.
Watching your cabin build video has given me an understanding of what my ancestors went through and how they lived. They were farmers who moved from New York to Pennsylvania, through the Ohio Valley, on to Kansas and Nebraska. They weren't rich or famous, just men and women who worked the land and endured hardship in hope of a better life. Thank you for your efforts.
Amazing isn't it? My German ancestors traveled across the US in mid 1860's via COVERED wagon to Iowa to become Farmers. Farm still stands.
When I was a kid in the 90s I was blessed with the privilege to go into the woods and fell whatever trees we wanted to. The area was waiting for development. The owner simply asked that we not "burn it all down". By age 16 my friends and I had built several log cabins. Your roof is better than ours.
Now that I'm nearing my 40's I have to buy my own land to try again. I envy you.
The smoke house using the mortise and tenon joint construction is what style the main house would be built in. Making the smoke house first would be the learning phase of the main house construction. I'm impressed with the willingness to work hard to show WORKING HARD. Amazing!
Started the tiny house movement!
These cabin videos have been my favorites. As a child growing up in central Indiana, I had the opportunity to explore several old cabins that still existed in my neck of the woods (I'm 71). They were hewn beams, mostly used as storage sheds with corrugated tin roofing covering the deteriorating cedar shingles. Many of them were a single pen although they often had a lean-to added. My favorite one still had an old buckboard stored beneath the lean-to, its wooden wheels sunken into the earth. I marveled to think of the families that were raised in these little structures. All sites are gone now. It's sad that none were salvaged.
I can't believe it's been three years already.
I was very surprised to hear I watched this 3 years ago when it came out. I thought it was 2. My sense of time becomes more vague the longer I live.
@@winnerscreed6767 yes,lol....
The days are blending together in my life with almost no distinction as to day and night now.
Three years. Crazy how time flies. Felt like it was 6 months ago watching you guys make the cabin.
I remember watching the first cabin video and remember thinking “in before ‘the cabin collapsed’ video comes next” 😂 but wow what a journey! I’d love to see the inside and sit in an cabin that looks like I’d freeze to death over night… to it actually being a well made building that’s so warm and cosy with an amazing fire! What an achievement, I think you guys need to pat yourselves on the back! Don’t thank us! Thank yourselves! Amazing work! Keep it up! ❤
Really, it's a testament to the talent involved in this project that it didn't collapse within the first few months, let alone for three years.
Love you guys! Can’t wait to see he smokehouse in action!
I remember ■ the addition to the chimney and the bark roof; through it all it is a sweet cabin.
I've been here since the beginning and loved every minute....I do miss seeing John cook in the style he started out with!
My kids and I have loved watching your homestead grow from day 1. The brick making process might be our favorite series of videos. Thank you for documenting such a beautiful and fascinating project! It's amazing how much you have done.
The Christmas music and fireplace video has become a tradition here, it's been a long time since I lived in a home with a fireplace and I do miss the heat, sound, and scent
3 years already?! You guys have done such amazing work with this and everything on the homestead.
Jon, it is always interesting what you do with the homestead. Looking forward to more.
I've always loved how big the fireplace in that cabin is.
This whole series has to be my favorite on UA-cam. From the attention to detail to your commitment to historical techniques and materials, the homestead has given me (as a viewer!) so much insight into the lives of our forefathers. I love experimental archeology and I remember being so excited to see your first log cabin video. I can't wait to see more! You guys are great!
It's been a lot of fun, and really enlightening, to watch you build this cabin and the homestead around it. I've learned a lot from this channel, and loved every minute of it.
Love watching this series. I remember the main cabin build thinking "wow, they're going to do this..?" It's awesome to see you expanding the homestead.
I loved watching all of the cabin videos from the beginning. I just can't believe its been 3 years.
Can’t remember exactly but I’ve been with you guys 5 years or so. Love all your content and the Homestead is one of my favorites. Thanks so much for your hard work!
The first cabin video was wonderful, the ending where it started snowing just as you finished up was cinematic and couldn't have been more perfect if you planned it. Love the channel, love all of the projects you're doing on the homestead and can't wait to see what's up next.
This was a great build and I appreciate all of Mr. Townsends' and his team's work to show us how our ancestors survived so many years ago.
I am curious about one thing though. On the cabin build, why did they leave one side of the peak of the roof longer than the other?
Anyway, thank you and your team Mr. Townsends for all your work for us. Please keep it up. 🙂
Stay safe everyone. 🙂😎
2:40 It's not historically accurate, but there may be no other option: After cutting off the rotted ends, you may want to go over to Loews or Home Depot and get some modern sealant to prevent future rot.
Firstly. I've followed your channel for years. The dugout canoe, this cabin. the mini movies, all of these have been wonderful.
It's been a while since your daughter has cooked for us, and as things morph over time, you've managed to keep the content awesome.
You haven't showcased your goods for sale in a while, and showcasing them has never been problem, as you've consistently done so in an entertaining and inviting manner.
In other words, for everyone there, keep up the amazing work each and every one of you do.
I was there for the first log. In fact, I was there for the canoe and even more years prior.
I can't believe it's been 3 years! Your in depth look at building, experimentation, and improv on the fly has taught me so much, and it's been really useful to have this info. I write fantasy books about a world that has tech and culture similar to the late Georgian period, and the main character is a hunter and wilderness trekker. I can't thank you enough for all the fun facts, recipes, stories, and jokes that make my research so fun and rewarding. And let me know if you'd like a free copy of one of my books.
I am originally from a very large farm in Alberta, Canada. I remember staying in a log house, while the new house was being built. It had a wood burning stove, a kitchen, a room next to the kitchen, where me and my siblings and dad slept. There was a room upstairs. It was very nice with the wood burning stove. When I was out in the country, I would see very old homes and barns in fields. They have a history behind them. It definitely is fascinating how they made homes in the early days in Canada and the United States. This cabin turned out great. Thanks for the awesome videos, and the great quality content. I hope you have a Merry Christmas. Cheers!
I too am from Alberta. I always enjoy taking the back roads when traveling around the province and seeing the homes from settlement times.
@@quantumleap8888 It's very nice to see. Cheers!
I believe the first video of yours I ever watched was "What am I gonna do with all these hooks and eyes!?" It's amazing how far this channel has come.
I watched you build that cabin, but I also remember the episode where you cooked dinner in the fireplace, and then slept there through a snowstorm. It seemed well-built and cozy.
It is hard to think it was been 3 years ago already I have enjoyed watching the homestead grow 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Man I love this channel. In the problem times of today, this is just a soothing reminder of normalcy
I've watched the Homestead grow from the beginning, & eagerly look forward to every new video! I love working with hand-tools, and watching y'all use basic tools to create a home and outbuildings is inspiring. Thank You so much for sharing this journey with us!
This is my favourite project on UA-cam, please keep adding to the homestead. I don't have the space to do anything like this, so it's great to be able to see you do it.
The cabin/homestead has been my favourite part of your channel. I was watching for a couple years before you started it and it's always a joy when you release a new video about it.
As children my friends and siblings and I tried to build log cabins. Being children we never got very far and did not know anything about filling in between the logs. Even then I wondered about that, but there was no internet and no Townsends to watch. Thank you for finally showing me how building a log cabin is done!
Wow, I was subscribed when you guys first started putting up cabin videos. It's amazing to think that was 3 years ago! how time flies and I am impressed with how well it's held up and all the amazing homestead content since then. I really enjoy seeing the new additions you guys build for the homestead!
Your comments about construction materials reminded me of the beginning of the song "Johnny B Goode" - "Way down in Lousiana down by New Orleans, Way back up in the woods among the evergreens, There stood a little cabin made of earth and wood, where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode" 😄
Oh yeah, I remember the first cabin episode. It's amazing that it's already been three years. Time really flies. It's amazing that it lasted this long too. Keep up the fantastic work, Jon. Hope to see the cabin area expand just like you said with a bigger house and whatnot.
Building the cabin was the first Townsends video I watched! It's been an incredible journey watching this grow, keep it up!
Interesting to see how these cabins were practically made to be built in stages and converted for other purposes as time went on and they were replaced. I had wondered how that bark would hold up, always seemed abit flimsy to me given the force of rain, snow and wind, but the fact that it lasted a year was impressive. Great videos as always!
Somehow, I watched the original cabin making vid this morning, and the you dropped this update ... UA-cam gods, or fate?
I watch so many building videos and always find my way back here.
I think you guys should consider a few ambient/casual/relaxing videos, similar to the “we’ve been here before” video. Just you guys eating/relaxing in the cabin and talking or something like you would in your recreation shows. Keep up the good work guys, your videos bring a lot of us that much needed peace and provide such rich educational content.
All I can say is please keep making videos with the cabin. I been watching for longer than the 3 years and plan to hang around for as long as you guys are making content.
To be honest, being tulip poplar, I’m amazed it’s not rotted to the ground. Love seeing the cabin progression
I've been watching the channel since it was "How to use Shoe Buckles", and the like. The evolution of the channel is a testament to Jon's love of history, and we get to benefit from it. I have learned so much over the years and want to thank the entire Townsends team for it. Thank you "Professor Nutmeg" and your entire team.
Wood tar coating on the roof and it will hold up for a looooong time. Does wonders preventing log rot too. The stuffing between the logs could also be moss, if available or maybe hemp-fibers with tar.
I've been watching your videos for about 4 years, and in addition to enjoying their great quality they show me how my northern European ancestors would have survived as they made their way from 17th century Virginia through the Carolinas and Georgia and on to 19th century Texas. Thank you for all the research and stories and filming you are doing.
Really nice project with the cabin. I feel it would be the right time to start getting some furniture in there, maybe a desk, a cupboard or some king of sleeping place
I was there for the Cabin Build. I was there for the canoe burn. If memory serves, I first found you because of the Twelfth Night Cake episode!
Thanks for the Americana, the education, the perspective and the entertainment! Thanks even for the rare failed recipe try!
I was there at the beginning of the cabin build. Actually way before then. To be honest the work you have did on the homestead is some of my favorite videos on all of UA-cam. I love learning how to do stuff like that.
What a successful experiment! Your channel is such a relief from all the chaos and negativity these days. Please keep doing what you're doing.
Jon, I remember your first exploration video researching old structures, and I have been with you ever since. Well done to you and your crew!
Jon and crew - have fallen in like with your channel! I have cooked many of your recipes and was given an old cook book by my mother; I really enjoy the 'homestead' videos as well (I can't believe its been 3 years since the cabin!) and love your readings and especially the Nutmeg tavern talks and explanations. One thing I came away with is a deep appreciation of what many of our forefathers went through to get us 'here' .. and how easy we have it now (relatively speaking). Thank you for keeping it politically free! Hope you all are still interested in doing more videos in the future!
That shake roof would last even longer if you oiled the wood. Linseed oil would do a lot to preserve the shakes from rot. I'm sure other oils would also help maintain the shakes, but linseed is what i am familiar with.
You started the cabin shortly after I started watching your channel! It's been such a fun journey to watch. Thanks for taking us all along. Your channel has been a blessing to me through several years of surgeries and extended periods of bedrest; thank you for providing an artistic, educational, wholesome space that gave me something meaningful to watch when I was tired and discouraged. I'm not able to participate much in the historical/re-enacting community, but this channel makes me still feel connected. THANK YOU! :)
I've loved Townsend's long before UA-cam. Many happy memories of Kalamazoo. Was happy to find you here.
It has been a great three years watching the cabin homestead being built. I have loved every minute of it. Smokehouse is great but a root cellar would be good too.
I love that huge fireplace! It's like a little fire room.
I unfortunately don’t remember how I found your channel about 5 years ago John but what I do know is that your channel is now a very important part of my life and you have inspired me more than you could ever know. Thank you for everything that you do
No way! Three years?? Wow time flies!
I don't remember when I started watching the channel. I was already well and truly a regular viewer by the time you started the cabin. I do remember which video popped up for me the first time though. It was the first cob oven. Decided then and there that I would make one one day. Have now sold my house in the suburbs and am looking for my homestead and I'm still planning to build a cob oven for it 🙂
Love the follow up on this project... I imagine the upkeep of structures like this was nearly constant. You do as good a job as any channel helping me to appreciate the struggles of many of our ancestors, videos like this really help. Maybe next year you could get one member of your team to volunteer spending the winter in the cabin and film it. I'm sure it wouldn't be fun most days, heck maybe they even quit half way through, but it would be very educational
Been here for the whole thing. Thank you for the hours you have spent so a 100% disabled vet could live vicariously, through your endeavors.
I remember thinking to myself "what is Jon's whole plan for this cabin?" It has been interesting to see how you have developed different structures and tools that they would have needed in the 18th century. Thank you for the follow-up video.
It's already been three years?! (and then some because I'm watching this in February) That's crazy? I watched the whole build, the brick making, the new roof,.... all of it. It's really fascinating, like a real-time living history museum. It also made me want to build a cabin, even though I don't have land to build one on.
I have watched since you began; each element was an education, and feeling of fascination for those who built each of the structures you worked on. Three years has gone by quickly, and I still look forward to more. Thank you for sharing your passion and sense of adventure
Hey, I found your channel through looking for fried chicken recipes a few years ago. Soon after I saw that you were building a homestead and ever since then, this has been the first and only channel that I watch religiously. My work sometimes involves historic preservation work and I have always enjoyed practicing traditional skills enough that I went looking for a field in which I could make that my work. Out west where I am, our permanent structure history doesn't really go back to the 18th century. But I've fixed up a few 19th century structures using 19th century tools and techniques. I have had so much joy seeing how things were done a century before where my knowledge base is and with relatively restrictive resources. I hope that y'all keep doing what you do so long as you keep on loving it, because I sure do love it too!
I remember this when it first started and waiting for the update videos. Looked like incredibly back breaking work felling, trimming, and setting the logs by hand, but you got it done RIGHT as the snow started to fall. Completely forgot about the bark roof AND that it was filmed that long ago >.< Nice to see updates like this to know it was a success.
Ive been watching since yall had only 100K subscribers, virtually everything you share is valuable and fun to watch. Thank you.
It is so much fun to see it holding up after these years. I was a nervous nelly hoping that fireplace dried in time!
Man, I remember when the cabin was new! Time flies.
Looks so lovely to sit around that fireplace!
The cabin still looks fantastic, John! I really enjoy watching you build structures on your homestead - so soothing and educational 😍
My family and I have been there since the beginning. Thanks so much! We love the old videos and are always looking out for new ones. Thanks John, Michael, and Ryan.... btw, we would love to see more of Nicole!! Knitting, crochet, tatting, sewing, more of her would be awesome. If you could include historical patterns to follow it would be amazing. Thank you!!
I’ve been watching since you started the cabin. The building of the fireplace is the most interesting part, to me.
I watched the original cabin build several times over and have enjoyed it just as much each time. Thank you for updating us
I remember when you were traveling around the country looking at the oldest cabin-type dwellings you could find, in order to learn about their construction techniques. I remember watching the trees being felled, bark removed, and logs split.I remember y'all creating the chinking, the fireplace, and the bark roof. What I expect next is that you will open up the homestead to (paying, of course) visitors - and that you will write a book about your experiences and what you've learned, plus some recipes!