We would cut our logs(Red Oak) at 19 inches to allow six inches to the weather. Big logs like that would need one guy splitting with wedges so the guy with the froe can keep at it. We would take a week for splitting, a week for shaving and a week for stacking them to dry under a roof. In '79 we sold six stacks to a fellow in Chardon, Ohio to roof a barn.
I live in Tennessee, USA and I have seen shakes made & nailed on. Never have I seen anyone take the time to true up shinges like you do. I have never put shakes on a roof. Its too bad that the American Chesnut trees are gone, they made the best shingles. I have seen old barns the chesnut shingles 150 yeare old. Granted they were worn out, but they didn't rot. Thanks for the demo
In southern chile alerce (fake patagonian cypress) is used for shingles, there it rains so much that shingles are put also on the walls! But since alerce is a really straight grained wood, you cam split it with a butter knife and will last for a hundred years. That led to the tree being overharvested (it takes a couple thousand years for these trees to grow) and banning its logging since 1976. I use that wood a lot for details in my woodworking, and i always get it from old shingles ;)
Mike Yazel Looking to make my own roof and was curious as to why you like green wood. What exactly is green wood and the benefit of using outdoors? Thanks.
In 1990 I met a guy in Oregon USA who was splitting cedar roof caps. He had a fro that had a right angle in it and he was cutting ridge caps. Sitting on a log in the middle of the forrest all by himself. He told me he was the old guy and they used to pretty much leave him to himself. Bring him some nice logs to split and he was happy. He told me he was the last of the breed, and indeed I cannot find anybody doing this now.
My Son's and I are building a cabin in the forest of Pennsylvania and are trying to learn as much as possible. We are trying to use traditional hand tools and methods to build it. Good video.
I don't have a froe, so I chainsawed out a 4 x 5" short beam, cut them to width and have been splitting them individually (smaller shingles for a smaller job) I know you're meant to do them radially, as it helps with shakes and is generally easier, but has worked well so far. Just hope they dry well!
Nice work. I'd been curious about a draw knife & fro, which was mentioned in a log cabin building book. I'm glad to have seen both tools demonstrated in their practical use. Very admirable skills, trade & craftswoman.
It’s amazing to me that on a steep pitch good wood shingles can last 100 years. Very impressive. I wonder if they last as long if cut on a saw mill? Or if splitting them by hand like that yields a longer lasting shingle.
I'll bet you on could double the life of those shingles! I grew up in a beekeeping family and we were always replacing the boxes because of rot. Spruce and pine are cheap to make the equipment out of but have a limited life span out in the weather. So we started deep frying them in paraffin wax for 5 minutes. The oldest ones we have are over 35 years old, have spent almost all of that time out in the elements, and are showing no signs of rot.
I like the knives she uses for cutting the shingles. Those must be some very strong handles, the way she pulls to break off the slice. Wonder if they are ash or ironwood or something like that. Very nice work
Yeah! The tool shes using to split the wood is called a froe, I'd imagine the handle is hickory or ash, but most likely it's an ash handle being in the uk. It's a beautiful draw knife she's using too, with the brass ferrules. Proper stuff!
There are women in the U.S. that like woodworking, electrical and farming ... I know because I am one. I'm not in Tennessee though, I'm in South Carolina and down here there aren't any men that have these interests.
Very cool and beautiful! Unfortunately a Kansas sun dried wood shingle will burst into flame if you look at it wrong! Or if lightning or pasture fire come through.
Boy looks fun! I want to learn. Good thing we will be here for a 1000 yrs after second coming of our Lord. There are so many activities I wish to experience. Thanks for the video! God bless!
Thanks for sharing. I been looking for something just like this. I plan building my own Log Cabin and want to use wooden shingles. Thanks again for sharing
do you have a video on that twig fencing you made shown in this video. Thanks a bunch, nice work, looks wearing, but, rewarding excellent work blessings to you!
the fencing is called wattle, and is used as the lattice work for wattle and daub, just to point you in the right direction to find more information if you haven't already.
you should come to Canada we have a abundant of trees! good job how long would a oak last as a roof shingle and would you put something on them to make them last longer?? interesting!
Can I get a link to where you got your sweater.... I'm in the USA living off grid and I want to know if you know where I can take a class or apprenticeship here in the USA I especially that woven fence that you showed
It's nice to see that women are breaking the stereotype.There are some jobs which we aren't cut out for but we can do most jobs which men have traditionally done.
Do you have a double course of shingels at the bottom? It looks like you've got some kind of a home made clamp that you operate by foot? Any pics or drawings of that? Thanks, good vid!
It's some kind of bench. There's actually a video here on UA-cam with a guy making one in the forest. I think it's on the TA OUTDOORS channel or the Coalcracker Bushcraft one.
I realize this is an old post but hopefully it might help others as well. It's called a shave horse. There are a couple versions most people make. It is one of those tools that you make to work the best for your needs. To many people see something they believe is incorrect and to me it seems they forget there isn't a rule to these types of tools one must follow. You do what works best for you and always leave your mind open to improvements or someone being sincere with advice. After all this line of work is about the simple things in life. I built mine just from an idea and other ideas soon come about with other uses for it as well modifications to make using it not only just it being effective, comfortable or ease of use but all the above from your own hands. Take care..
youniverse traveller she said it'd take her a week to cover the roof shown with between 1,000 and 1,500 shingles. 40 hours / 1,000 shingles = .04 hours per shingle and 1,500 = .06, which is about 1.6-2.4 minutes each. That time frame of 1 week included installing the shingles, not just making them.
I've split tons of white oak shingles for little outbuildings and things, one project is a mobile shack that's been on the road 5 years as a food truck. Your froe doesn't need a knife edge, think of it as a long, slender maul, not an axe. The real work is done by applying leverage to the handle to seperate or split the wood fibers, you actually don't want to cut through the fibers, just pop them apart like slipping your fingers between the pages of a book. It's incredibly important to have a near perfect, straight-grained log and you really want it to be as green as possible. The real magic of a froe is that you can control which way the split will go, if it wants to walk to the left or the right you can put a knee in the center of the piece and pull back on the spine of the thicker side to pull the split back into the center. By doing that, you can split pieces down to 1/4" or so if you choose. It's an incredibly fast and efficient way to break a log down into crude planks, or palings as they used to say. Gives you a respect for how they used to do it in the old days and you quickly realize the advantages of having large, virgin timber at your disposal. Simple machines can get a crazy amount of work done when you have cooperative materials to work with.
maybe im a moron, but, i would get a shorter plane chisel tool. and when i was batoning , i wouldnt hold the fro at the top of the stick X_x, so inaccurate. i would hold it near the base.
I agree, the Oak doesn't get much of a look in these days... [In reality also of course] Nice roof work btw but do you really have time to do all this? :)
She made some great points about how and where you do a roof like this. A steep pitch with plenty of air to move through and around the shingles can double or triple the lifespan. Depending on how natural you want it to be, you could treat it with a Thomson's type product and possibly get some decent results? I kept mine natural, then decided i didnt like they gray color, so i cleaned it up with an acid type of product that ate away the graying surface and got down to clean wood, then i stained and sealed it. I'm using white oak in Virginia.
Yeah, but she's actually making the shingles by hand, without power tools. If you started your concrete tiles by quarrying and crushing the lime to make cement, digging the coal to fire it, mixing it and actually making the tiles in moulds, and so on, all by yourself, I suspect it might take a LITTLE longer than a week, even with power tools!
Nice video...never thought about wooden shingles. I want to build something for a palapa type structure(Honduras ) but using palm leaves has gotten really expensive and you actually have to import those from another part of the country. I love typical Spanish roof tile but in this part of the country they are hardly used.. so once again would have to bring them in from somewhere else or make my own out of concrete and they will be kind of heavy. Can't stand the look of metal roofs or these plastic fake spanish tiles so wood combined with used motor oil ( for the termites ) might be the ticket
I enjoyed the video, which I was searching for, to show a friend how shingles are made (he's busy and so am I, so I can't personally show him for a while). I work in the woods myself, and have done these, plus woodland management etc. and have branched out into all a manner of green woodworking and fine woodworking too. My only question (upset?) was when you, Ruth, referred to other women training 'preferably with other women' for 'safety' etc. I find that a bit offensive and sexist if you ask me. Are you thinking you'll be attacked or raped by us or something? It's a bit of an insult to your fellow woodworkers, isn't it? They are mainly men of course, so that comment wasn't very tactful. However, if you're meaning something else, or I missed something, then can you kindly expand on that and explain, please? Thank you in advance.
She doesn't mean a safe space in terms of physical safety, she means it as in a space where you can feel safe to make mistakes because you're not being judged on being a woman learning a skill that's not traditionally feminine. Sometimes as a woman, if you are branching out into new skills, it can be scary learning from a guy because you're either being judged or patronised, and you feel like you have to represent your gender. If you're shy or you want to learn at your own pace, it can be very intimidating. The communities I've worked with have all been lovely and welcoming and a dude in his 50s taught me how to chop wood like a demon and build things and has always been able to perfectly mix thoroughly showing me how to do something without making me feel thick or weak for not knowing or not having the skills to do something, BUT we have had male visitors on site give me the side-eye when my mentor hands me the angle grinder.
Ru Raynor I know what you're getting at, and it's often the case that women feel intimidated in situations like this. But like you say, not all men are like that, why can't you 'man-up' as the term goes and not feel so sensitive? Prove them wrong and they'll respect you for it. You have to understand men too: Many women simply aren't cut out for some of the jobs that men do and find it hard for whatever reason. This, coupled with the fact that many women have shied away only compounds this observation that men have made. So it's exacerbated and perpetuating. So the answer isn't to effectively help along with this perception men have of women, but to prove otherwise, in front of them. If you resort to women-only groups then you WILL be seen as somehow thick or weak, as you put it. Things are never going to change. The 'equality' mantra isn't being helped by women who do decide to give up and join women-only groups for fear or ridicule. Don't forget many men too feel intimidated by other men, so it's not only women; but we don't give up, we soldier on. Maybe we are stronger after all? I'm not saying that to belittle, but based on what I see in your comment, as other women too tend to echo, but complain about inequality when they aren't contributing positively to change it, by virtue of resorting to their default position of avoiding men's group and instead opting for women's. It only cements the stereotypes rather than challenging it. Things will never change all the time women behave like this, and yet you somehow place the blame on men, when you aren't helping the situation yourselves. Shifting blame onto men is a bit one-sided, when you have responsibility to change men's perceptions of women, if you don't like our perception of you. Why do women expect to be treated with kid gloves so, being given special treatment in many cases, so you can then consider yourselves 'equal' when you've not behaved as if you are? It is an uphill struggle, and it isn't easy, but neither is it for some men either, who might be effeminate or otherwise 'intimidated'. Sadly these men DON'T have the luxury of joining women-only groups. They don't have any choice but to soldier on. Until BOTH genders work together, not bowing out because of how they 'feel', things will, undoubtedly, start to change. But to feed into the stereotype by giving up only perpetuates the situation you obviously want to change. I know a couple of women who are woodsmen and they've battled it out themselves, probably feeling intimidated inside, but they've stuck it out, and they've gained a lot of respect for it. One of them I really do have such admiration and affection for her (I can't help it). She's kept her feminine charm and is positively lovely, bringing something a little different and refreshingly so, to her craft. It would be nice to see other women supporting her by doing the same, and not expecting special treatment because you're female!
I enjoyed the video up until the point Ruth mentioned the female/safe/something special thing. As the OP says, definitely offensive to fellow male and female woodworkers. She's still young, well meaning and full of energy. Perhaps she grew up among rough men. But if a person, male or female, is making a place of study feel 'unsafe' to learn in then regardless of sex they are obviously not worthy of being called, nor suited to being a teacher. A teacher should be like a father, mother, uncle, aunt, brother or sister. Someone who makes you feel part of something and who imparts knowledge to you as and when you are ready. It's sad that you have to bicker about this mass media engineered sexist climate instead of 'personing' up to it and being a real person. UA-cam is full of wonderful and sincere woodworkers, craftspeople and DIYers of both sexes. Let's focus on the good and ignore the bad. It goes away eventually, with patience and perseverance.
tnick2 Thanks for supporting me on this. Seems as if many men (and yes we're to blame in some measure, though it's also in-bred into us not to share our feelings too readily, so it doesn't come naturally) are reticent on this, but we have been made to feel unwelcome in many environments: Can't walk by a school and look and smile at the kiddies for fear of being labelled a paedophile, or at least raising suspicions. That is way more oppressive and damaging than how women feel in a mere teaching environment. So sure, you're right about focussing on the craft instead of worrying about the people behind it. I'm certain that if women didn't forever complain about it and just got down and dirty, so to speak, that one's gender would be less of an issue in quite a short space of time. It'd be great to work together instead of focussing on how we 'feel' all the time and over-worrying about such things, and just get on with the task in hand.I'm glad I'm not the only one 'feeling' like this, he says having just said how we need to focus on the task in hand. But I hope it's clear why it was nevertheless necessary to say? ;-)
The amount of shit you hear from men, especially in the trades, makes it disturbing, dehumanising and straight up dangerous for women in male jobs. Even the "good" men think they deserve a medal just because they won't actively try to screw you over for being a woman, but they will still cover for creepy and misogynistic men, smirk at their "jokes" and misogynistic comments and gaslight women that they're crazy misandrists imagining things and overreacting. And telling women to give men a chance after men continuously screw them over due to their misogyny (frequently ending in serious trauma) isn't helping. Women are not the problem for not trusting men after centuries of being treated as subhuman, men are the problem for pushing male supremacist ideas so hard that the vast majority of women's safety and humane treatment is compromised because of it. Men are the ones with the problem here, not women for keeping themselves safe from centuries of their violence and abuse.
I bought land that was almost clear cut, they took all the ceader, oak, and pine they could. The replanted pine and sycamore for some reason. They left 2 oaks around 3' diameter. I seeded in more oak trees years ago and now have 4" saplings everywhere.
I bought a veneer log from a sawmill and made a mountain of shingles from it. You pay top dollar, but you big enough diameter to allow you to trim up your splits and still have 6-8 inches at a minimum. Remember you're dealing with the radius, I had an 18" log and it was good, but I wasn't getting any really wide shingles out of it and a lot were shy of 6 inches
I wish I could go there and learn with her I'd pay her the money to do that because I can learn fast because I'm used to working with trees and chainsaws and and I'm used to doing that kind of thing but I see they're more proficient over there cuz it's had time to practice throughout the years and I'm not just talking about just the last hundred years we're talking five or six hundred years maybe even more
the length appears sufficient, but the 'reveal' was set an inch~ too high. Shingle should span the absolute length of THREE battens AND allow sufficient overhang extending past the lowest batten to cover nailing in the 'common bond' of the two shingles below. The top of every shingle should be nailed directly to a batten at the top, and laid atop a shingle the next batten down, where It is nailed through both shingles in the same line. She just set the battens about 1/2" too far.
We would cut our logs(Red Oak) at 19 inches to allow six inches to the weather. Big logs like that would need one guy splitting with wedges so the guy with the froe can keep at it. We would take a week for splitting, a week for shaving and a week for stacking them to dry under a roof. In '79 we sold six stacks to a fellow in Chardon, Ohio to roof a barn.
I live in Tennessee, USA and I have seen shakes made & nailed on. Never have I seen anyone take the time to true up shinges like you do. I have never put shakes on a roof. Its too bad that the American Chesnut trees are gone, they made the best shingles. I have seen old barns the chesnut shingles 150 yeare old. Granted they were worn out, but they didn't rot. Thanks for the demo
They are trying to bring them back. I was in the shanendoa valley and I saw a chestnut, felt like I saw a unicorn
it's very satisfying to see a woman who truly loves
hard work. down to earth
In southern chile alerce (fake patagonian cypress) is used for shingles, there it rains so much that shingles are put also on the walls! But since alerce is a really straight grained wood, you cam split it with a butter knife and will last for a hundred years. That led to the tree being overharvested (it takes a couple thousand years for these trees to grow) and banning its logging since 1976. I use that wood a lot for details in my woodworking, and i always get it from old shingles ;)
she makes it looks so easy !!! :)
RESPECT voor deze vrouw .
Ik wil er ook zo wel een.
Super filmpje
Greetings from Ireland..this lady is skilled .a natural at her trade.and good for her...
Keep up the good work, nothing better than green wood and straight grain!
Mike Yazel Looking to make my own roof and was curious as to why you like green wood. What exactly is green wood and the benefit of using outdoors? Thanks.
You are on the right path. I admire people who choose to learn a trade.
Very interesting, great to watch someone good at their craft. We may have more tree planting and working woodlands the way farming may be going.
ford transit leaf springs for the froe for heavier oak trunk splitting work, they are 100mmx12mm spring steel on a 5ft long ash handle. £10.
this was great. super refreshing, working with your hands is becoming a lost art
You ought to be so proud, to know so much, your unassuming way, kindness and I know you are a beautiful soul and person. Good luck in your journey
So very nice to see your skills at work. take care and good luck
In 1990 I met a guy in Oregon USA who was splitting cedar roof caps. He had a fro that had a right angle in it and he was cutting ridge caps. Sitting on a log in the middle of the forrest all by himself. He told me he was the old guy and they used to pretty much leave him to himself. Bring him some nice logs to split and he was happy. He told me he was the last of the breed, and indeed I cannot find anybody doing this now.
My Son's and I are building a cabin in the forest of Pennsylvania and are trying to learn as much as possible. We are trying to use traditional hand tools and methods to build it. Good video.
Great video, Love Everything about our countryside skills.
I don't have a froe, so I chainsawed out a 4 x 5" short beam, cut them to width and have been splitting them individually (smaller shingles for a smaller job) I know you're meant to do them radially, as it helps with shakes and is generally easier, but has worked well so far. Just hope they dry well!
I like what your doing! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful job, well done!
2:57 Her mallet hold is hypnotizing!
Nice work. I'd been curious about a draw knife & fro, which was mentioned in a log cabin building book. I'm glad to have seen both tools demonstrated in their practical use. Very admirable skills, trade & craftswoman.
Awesome that you're carrying on the tradition Ruth
...and she's a woman! Don't forget that! (tho she wouldn't let it slip by ya, if you have an ear to hear it.)
Good job.
Presented well.
Informative.
Would like to hear more.
Thank U
It’s amazing to me that on a steep pitch good wood shingles can last 100 years. Very impressive.
I wonder if they last as long if cut on a saw mill? Or if splitting them by hand like that yields a longer lasting shingle.
They last much longer split.
So nice to watch someone who knows their art.
Nice work, well done, thanks.
very good and interesting!
I'll bet you on could double the life of those shingles! I grew up in a beekeeping family and we were always replacing the boxes because of rot. Spruce and pine are cheap to make the equipment out of but have a limited life span out in the weather. So we started deep frying them in paraffin wax for 5 minutes. The oldest ones we have are over 35 years old, have spent almost all of that time out in the elements, and are showing no signs of rot.
Beekeeper...and you use paraffin wax?
Isn't that sacrilege?
I like the knives she uses for cutting the shingles. Those must be some very strong handles, the way she pulls to break off the slice. Wonder if they are ash or ironwood or something like that. Very nice work
Yeah! The tool shes using to split the wood is called a froe, I'd imagine the handle is hickory or ash, but most likely it's an ash handle being in the uk. It's a beautiful draw knife she's using too, with the brass ferrules. Proper stuff!
God Almighty I wish there were women like you in Tennessee!
There are women in the U.S. that like woodworking, electrical and farming ... I know because I am one. I'm not in Tennessee though, I'm in South Carolina and down here there aren't any men that have these interests.
Thanks for sharing your passion
1 more person making shingles, starting from.....now!
Very cool and beautiful! Unfortunately a Kansas sun dried wood shingle will burst into flame if you look at it wrong! Or if lightning or pasture fire come through.
Wonder-Wood-Woman , respect!!!
fantastic
god damn, I wish I knew someone I could apprentice with. I love this stuff!
let it go
@@cesssumawang2485 No
I like this! Bravo!
She's a gem.
Boy looks fun! I want to learn. Good thing we will be here for a 1000 yrs after second coming of our Lord. There are so many activities I wish to experience. Thanks for the video! God bless!
beautiful
Thank you that you have ! )
Very enjoyable vid!
Thanks for sharing. I been looking for something just like this. I plan building my own Log Cabin and want to use wooden shingles. Thanks again for sharing
Interesting way of roofing. I wonder if the orientation, which side down, of the shingle makes a difference.
do you have a video on that twig fencing you made shown in this video. Thanks a bunch, nice work, looks wearing, but, rewarding excellent work blessings to you!
the fencing is called wattle, and is used as the lattice work for wattle and daub, just to point you in the right direction to find more information if you haven't already.
She's great! =)
She's cute.... My kind of gal!
Brilliant - you are an inspiration
Will it be better if the shingles are burned some? Shou Sugi Ban?
Will they last longer if you spray a water seal on them? Seems logical but I don't think it's done, so there must be a reason?
you should come to Canada we have a abundant of trees! good job how long would a oak last as a roof shingle and would you put something on them to make them last longer?? interesting!
Очень интересно и познавательно. А гвозди где брали?
Beautiful girl, and very talented.
nice work lady!
Good stuff. Thankyou
Can I get a link to where you got your sweater....
I'm in the USA living off grid and I want to know if you know where I can take a class or apprenticeship here in the USA I especially that woven fence that you showed
how old should the rounds be before you cut them into shingles
Good job Ruth...
I like the work bench. Any way of getting some photos so I could make me one.
it's called a shave horse. Jesus fuck dude broaden your horizons.
It's nice to see that women are breaking the stereotype.There are some jobs which we aren't cut out for but we can do most jobs which men have traditionally done.
Admirable trabajo, me gustaría aprender.
realy like this kind off work would love to learn more
loved the video, subbed, I want to do that apprenticeship.
Ever considered using slates?
Do you have a double course of shingels at the bottom?
It looks like you've got some kind of a home made clamp that you operate by foot?
Any pics or drawings of that?
Thanks, good vid!
It's some kind of bench. There's actually a video here on UA-cam with a guy making one in the forest. I think it's on the TA OUTDOORS channel or the Coalcracker Bushcraft one.
Great video. Does anyone know the name for the work bench she used?
Shave horse.
I realize this is an old post but hopefully it might help others as well. It's called a shave horse. There are a couple versions most people make. It is one of those tools that you make to work the best for your needs. To many people see something they believe is incorrect and to me it seems they forget there isn't a rule to these types of tools one must follow. You do what works best for you and always leave your mind open to improvements or someone being sincere with advice. After all this line of work is about the simple things in life.
I built mine just from an idea and other ideas soon come about with other uses for it as well modifications to make using it not only just it being effective, comfortable or ease of use but all the above from your own hands. Take care..
the tool your using! we here in Canada it is referred to as a draw knife is it called that there!
+Marc A Gagnon Yeah it's a draw knife here too, and she's using it on a shave horse.
+Marc A Gagnon Yeah it's a draw knife here too, and she's using it on a shave horse.
Hello 🤗 my beautiful Daisy :)
so making one shingle could take how long? about 30 minutes?
youniverse traveller she said it'd take her a week to cover the roof shown with between 1,000 and 1,500 shingles.
40 hours / 1,000 shingles = .04 hours per shingle and 1,500 = .06, which is about 1.6-2.4 minutes each.
That time frame of 1 week included installing the shingles, not just making them.
is your froe sharp? Mine isn't & I've never gotten it to split.( but that was the way I bought it)
+ljbobb1 a froe should definitely be sharp. keep it sharp like a splitting ax, not a razor , but sharp enough to demand respect
+Ltifone2014 thank you, it's been frustrating to find imfo ... not many people use them anymore
if you have the equipment, i prefer a chisel grind over the factory double bevel. i find it easier to place it where it needs to be
+Ltifone2014 Ok. Thank you
I've split tons of white oak shingles for little outbuildings and things, one project is a mobile shack that's been on the road 5 years as a food truck. Your froe doesn't need a knife edge, think of it as a long, slender maul, not an axe. The real work is done by applying leverage to the handle to seperate or split the wood fibers, you actually don't want to cut through the fibers, just pop them apart like slipping your fingers between the pages of a book. It's incredibly important to have a near perfect, straight-grained log and you really want it to be as green as possible. The real magic of a froe is that you can control which way the split will go, if it wants to walk to the left or the right you can put a knee in the center of the piece and pull back on the spine of the thicker side to pull the split back into the center. By doing that, you can split pieces down to 1/4" or so if you choose. It's an incredibly fast and efficient way to break a log down into crude planks, or palings as they used to say. Gives you a respect for how they used to do it in the old days and you quickly realize the advantages of having large, virgin timber at your disposal. Simple machines can get a crazy amount of work done when you have cooperative materials to work with.
Hi what is that table that you use to hold a shingle while you are making it straight?
+Dovydas Pocius It is called a shave horse. There's all types of videos and articles all over the internet. There's also quite a variety of them to.
Nice thank you :)
Excellent. Interesting person.
maybe im a moron, but, i would get a shorter plane chisel tool. and when i was batoning , i wouldnt hold the fro at the top of the stick X_x, so inaccurate. i would hold it near the base.
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Bravo...
Would ash do?
I agree, the Oak doesn't get much of a look in these days... [In reality also of course] Nice roof work btw but do you really have time to do all this? :)
Is the oak green or seasoned? I'm guessing green, ps good work.
is the roof waterproof?
I need to find a lass like this
how would i prevent the wood from spliting when i nail them in?
+Justin Brown pre-drill the nail hole
Would pine or spruce be ok for shingling?
absolutely not, pine and spruce is not termites resistance they will attract them when they get wet
What about Fir?
ich nehme nur kiefer oder fichte, tanne geht auch,lärche wäre besser
lärche und eiche ist aber sehr teuer
She made some great points about how and where you do a roof like this. A steep pitch with plenty of air to move through and around the shingles can double or triple the lifespan. Depending on how natural you want it to be, you could treat it with a Thomson's type product and possibly get some decent results? I kept mine natural, then decided i didnt like they gray color, so i cleaned it up with an acid type of product that ate away the graying surface and got down to clean wood, then i stained and sealed it. I'm using white oak in Virginia.
Good girl,not enough like you.
A week to cover a small roof like that?
That's why I use concrete Marley tiles.
Yeah, but she's actually making the shingles by hand, without power tools. If you started your concrete tiles by quarrying and crushing the lime to make cement, digging the coal to fire it, mixing it and actually making the tiles in moulds, and so on, all by yourself, I suspect it might take a LITTLE longer than a week, even with power tools!
you must walk in the rain with your head down with a nose as turned up as yours
Beau travail
Thanks inspiring the system but when it rains like to avoid the rain
Nice video...never thought about wooden shingles. I want to build something for a palapa type structure(Honduras ) but using palm leaves has gotten really expensive and you actually have to import those from another part of the country. I love typical Spanish roof tile but in this part of the country they are hardly used.. so once again would have to bring them in from somewhere else or make my own out of concrete and they will be kind of heavy. Can't stand the look of metal roofs or these plastic fake spanish tiles so wood combined with used motor oil ( for the termites ) might be the ticket
schön dass man eine hübsche frau sieht die die das goldene handwerk beherscht !
Que mujer tan hermosa.. Que tipo de madera es?
Oak
8-) respect!
I enjoyed the video, which I was searching for, to show a friend how shingles are made (he's busy and so am I, so I can't personally show him for a while). I work in the woods myself, and have done these, plus woodland management etc. and have branched out into all a manner of green woodworking and fine woodworking too.
My only question (upset?) was when you, Ruth, referred to other women training 'preferably with other women' for 'safety' etc. I find that a bit offensive and sexist if you ask me. Are you thinking you'll be attacked or raped by us or something? It's a bit of an insult to your fellow woodworkers, isn't it? They are mainly men of course, so that comment wasn't very tactful. However, if you're meaning something else, or I missed something, then can you kindly expand on that and explain, please? Thank you in advance.
She doesn't mean a safe space in terms of physical safety, she means it as in a space where you can feel safe to make mistakes because you're not being judged on being a woman learning a skill that's not traditionally feminine. Sometimes as a woman, if you are branching out into new skills, it can be scary learning from a guy because you're either being judged or patronised, and you feel like you have to represent your gender. If you're shy or you want to learn at your own pace, it can be very intimidating.
The communities I've worked with have all been lovely and welcoming and a dude in his 50s taught me how to chop wood like a demon and build things and has always been able to perfectly mix thoroughly showing me how to do something without making me feel thick or weak for not knowing or not having the skills to do something, BUT we have had male visitors on site give me the side-eye when my mentor hands me the angle grinder.
Ru Raynor
I know what you're getting at, and it's often the case that women feel intimidated in situations like this. But like you say, not all men are like that, why can't you 'man-up' as the term goes and not feel so sensitive? Prove them wrong and they'll respect you for it. You have to understand men too: Many women simply aren't cut out for some of the jobs that men do and find it hard for whatever reason. This, coupled with the fact that many women have shied away only compounds this observation that men have made. So it's exacerbated and perpetuating.
So the answer isn't to effectively help along with this perception men have of women, but to prove otherwise, in front of them. If you resort to women-only groups then you WILL be seen as somehow thick or weak, as you put it. Things are never going to change. The 'equality' mantra isn't being helped by women who do decide to give up and join women-only groups for fear or ridicule.
Don't forget many men too feel intimidated by other men, so it's not only women; but we don't give up, we soldier on. Maybe we are stronger after all? I'm not saying that to belittle, but based on what I see in your comment, as other women too tend to echo, but complain about inequality when they aren't contributing positively to change it, by virtue of resorting to their default position of avoiding men's group and instead opting for women's. It only cements the stereotypes rather than challenging it. Things will never change all the time women behave like this, and yet you somehow place the blame on men, when you aren't helping the situation yourselves. Shifting blame onto men is a bit one-sided, when you have responsibility to change men's perceptions of women, if you don't like our perception of you. Why do women expect to be treated with kid gloves so, being given special treatment in many cases, so you can then consider yourselves 'equal' when you've not behaved as if you are?
It is an uphill struggle, and it isn't easy, but neither is it for some men either, who might be effeminate or otherwise 'intimidated'. Sadly these men DON'T have the luxury of joining women-only groups. They don't have any choice but to soldier on.
Until BOTH genders work together, not bowing out because of how they 'feel', things will, undoubtedly, start to change. But to feed into the stereotype by giving up only perpetuates the situation you obviously want to change.
I know a couple of women who are woodsmen and they've battled it out themselves, probably feeling intimidated inside, but they've stuck it out, and they've gained a lot of respect for it. One of them I really do have such admiration and affection for her (I can't help it). She's kept her feminine charm and is positively lovely, bringing something a little different and refreshingly so, to her craft. It would be nice to see other women supporting her by doing the same, and not expecting special treatment because you're female!
I enjoyed the video up until the point Ruth mentioned the female/safe/something special thing. As the OP says, definitely offensive to fellow male and female woodworkers. She's still young, well meaning and full of energy. Perhaps she grew up among rough men.
But if a person, male or female, is making a place of study feel 'unsafe' to learn in then regardless of sex they are obviously not worthy of being called, nor suited to being a teacher.
A teacher should be like a father, mother, uncle, aunt, brother or sister. Someone who makes you feel part of something and who imparts knowledge to you as and when you are ready.
It's sad that you have to bicker about this mass media engineered sexist climate instead of 'personing' up to it and being a real person.
UA-cam is full of wonderful and sincere woodworkers, craftspeople and DIYers of both sexes. Let's focus on the good and ignore the bad. It goes away eventually, with patience and perseverance.
tnick2 Thanks for supporting me on this. Seems as if many men (and yes we're to blame in some measure, though it's also in-bred into us not to share our feelings too readily, so it doesn't come naturally) are reticent on this, but we have been made to feel unwelcome in many environments: Can't walk by a school and look and smile at the kiddies for fear of being labelled a paedophile, or at least raising suspicions. That is way more oppressive and damaging than how women feel in a mere teaching environment. So sure, you're right about focussing on the craft instead of worrying about the people behind it. I'm certain that if women didn't forever complain about it and just got down and dirty, so to speak, that one's gender would be less of an issue in quite a short space of time. It'd be great to work together instead of focussing on how we 'feel' all the time and over-worrying about such things, and just get on with the task in hand.I'm glad I'm not the only one 'feeling' like this, he says having just said how we need to focus on the task in hand. But I hope it's clear why it was nevertheless necessary to say? ;-)
The amount of shit you hear from men, especially in the trades, makes it disturbing, dehumanising and straight up dangerous for women in male jobs. Even the "good" men think they deserve a medal just because they won't actively try to screw you over for being a woman, but they will still cover for creepy and misogynistic men, smirk at their "jokes" and misogynistic comments and gaslight women that they're crazy misandrists imagining things and overreacting.
And telling women to give men a chance after men continuously screw them over due to their misogyny (frequently ending in serious trauma) isn't helping. Women are not the problem for not trusting men after centuries of being treated as subhuman, men are the problem for pushing male supremacist ideas so hard that the vast majority of women's safety and humane treatment is compromised because of it. Men are the ones with the problem here, not women for keeping themselves safe from centuries of their violence and abuse.
She's very capable - and really hot.
After a three year apprenticeship she shouldn't be bumblefucking her shakes let alone tickling with a maul.
undeadgaming Did I hear one of AvE’s trademark words? :-D
@@undeadgaming5245 She's working and doing an interview.
Nice video and a nice young lady.
it takes over 8 hours of work to make 500 tiles. non-stop. 1 piece per minute.
The problem with the oaks here in the US is that too many idiots cut them down without regrowing a new one in it's place.
I bought land that was almost clear cut, they took all the ceader, oak, and pine they could. The replanted pine and sycamore for some reason. They left 2 oaks around 3' diameter. I seeded in more oak trees years ago and now have 4" saplings everywhere.
I bought a veneer log from a sawmill and made a mountain of shingles from it. You pay top dollar, but you big enough diameter to allow you to trim up your splits and still have 6-8 inches at a minimum. Remember you're dealing with the radius, I had an 18" log and it was good, but I wasn't getting any really wide shingles out of it and a lot were shy of 6 inches
sei bellissima
Now that's a real woman☝😍
I wish I could go there and learn with her I'd pay her the money to do that because I can learn fast because I'm used to working with trees and chainsaws and and I'm used to doing that kind of thing but I see they're more proficient over there cuz it's had time to practice throughout the years and I'm not just talking about just the last hundred years we're talking five or six hundred years maybe even more
Why is it nobody wants to reply....
The shingels are too short, should be around 1/3 at the bottom not the half :)
the length appears sufficient, but the 'reveal' was set an inch~ too high. Shingle should span the absolute length of THREE battens AND allow sufficient overhang extending past the lowest batten to cover nailing in the 'common bond' of the two shingles below. The top of every shingle should be nailed directly to a batten at the top, and laid atop a shingle the next batten down, where It is nailed through both shingles in the same line.
She just set the battens about 1/2" too far.
One HELLuv a ROOF !!!😬
Tile would be heavier ! BUT safer !