Even though this is not a cabin, it is a "fixer-upper" house that has need of outbuildings, like the woodshed and the combination hay insulated pipe house and kitty house on top of it. The pipe house is for the return air from the greenhouse on the side of our house that is fed warm air from the kitchen and returns to our laundry room where our woodstove is. And being of very low income, I decided to use a roof method from the great depression and that is to use food cans that are split open to using as shingles on the two roofs. And they work very well. Saved us a lot of money too. Yes, they have a patina to them but as the water flows off, it will be an extremely long time before any of them need to be replaced. Many things one can learn from this site and other related to homesteading and depression living that can be used in our modern-day life. Especially since our economy is in such a precarious position and could do a full-on collapse at any time soon.
The British thatch roof had an expected life span of 25 years, so re-thatching was a constant job. So, over time, the roof becomes thicker. Same approach with your bark roof. Adding more bark makes the roof thicker, and hopefully more water proof. Living history at its finest. Keep up the good work.
I was just reading Alexander Langland's "Craeft" and in the current chapter, he talks about thatch at length. It's quite a satisfying read, and every chapter a rabbit hole into yet another traditional craft that warrants further research and study for the average homestead geek reader. I wholeheartedly recommend it.
@@homesteadtotable2921 I just received that wonderful book. Delighted to discover that he was one of the archaeologists on Tales from the Green Valley, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm. The exploration of old ways and processes was fascinating, just as Townsend's are now. Tales from the Green Valley ua-cam.com/video/wdn7EF5Ch3g/v-deo.html Victorian Farm ua-cam.com/video/4apIM4l0laY/v-deo.html Edwardian Farm ua-cam.com/video/UcBl4_2FJX4/v-deo.html
I love the demonstration of the seasonality of living off the land, how even a week can make the difference between being able to get the materials you need to put up a roof...or not. Such an insight into how closely our ancestors had to live in sync with natural cycles, compared to how we live today.
I think seeing you guys working in the clothes of the era is one of my favorite things. I bet putting on those outfits to go out and do this really makes you feel like you're stepping into the past.
I’d love nothing more than to have a cabin in the woods to escape to. Unfortunately I live in the UK where the population density and planning permission bureaucracy would stop me from doing this:(
can you revisit how well the hawthorn thorns worked a "nails"? You mentioned them when you put the roof on last year, was wondering how well they've weathered....
i love to see the failures, in many ways more than the successes. It does demonstrate what sort of annoyances and adversities people faced, especially as they had nowhere near the access to information and learning material we have these days. Im sure many of them did not have someone with expertise to readily call on either, so had to learn these mistakes many times until they figured out a solution
This video made me so happy😊 from the cinematography to editing and amazing sound quality y’all are great. It’s amazing that Townsends went from a historical reproduction retailer to also producing top quality media content🙌🏽 Bless you guys
I have 500 acres in Kentucky that I would be willing to do this on, make a public venue where people can come visit and see how it was. Really cool you all are doing it!
Great video. I was kind of wondering why you weren't putting the boys to work over the winter with the froes. Better get that garden in, root cellar dug, corral and shelter for the mule. Keep up the good work!
Jon if you replace the bark with cedar be sure to use copper nails. The cedar shingles will last for 50 years but if you use steel nails they will rust out after 10 years and the shingles will fall off.
I love how randomly wholesome this channel is. Lots of interesting information, no nonsense from the modern world getting in the way, and a very happy cheery host. I love it.
This was wonderful Jon, a true rendition of normal conditions on the frontier. It was good of you to point out the seasonality of certain chores. Those of us raised on farms can attest to the truth of that. One of the largest chores we had in winter, (on the wheat and cattle ranch), was the chore of sharpening tools, and repairing equipment, both for our machinery and our horses. It would be nice to see a video on all the different implements you have, their repair if any, and sharpening process. I have no doubt you spend a fair amount of time on that chore. The roof work was amazing to see. Such a natural way to take care of leaks using what you had on hand. I used to peel cascara bark in the spring with my grandpa, for medical companies he was under contract to. It was hard work, and you are so right about the window of opportunity for easier bark peeling. It was also my job to climb the tree's and cut off smaller limbs when he could no longer do it. At least you can cut your timber to the ground. We had to be careful not to cause injury to the tree that would kill it, so we could go back and peel it again in a few years. Thank you for another great episode in your homestead saga. These have been grand!
Wow incredible insight into living through history - I never thought about how time sensitive it would be to get bark off of trees and make shakes. Love seeing the cabin’s life as part of the cycle of nature!
I absolutely love the cabin build. But I’m truly amazed over the chimney being built from logs and clay mixture. I had know idea, I always thought that the chimneys were built from stone. Thanks for the education. You have a truly amazing channel.
Franky Flowers turf roofs, the sod keeps the birch bark compressed, and, assuming it doesn’t get TOO dry, the grass and soil prevent the roof from burning. If it rains reasonably regularly, it would work well. Healthy grass doesn’t burn very well
Honestly, that looks like paradise! Especially considering what the outside world is going through. A log cabin, with a nice fire, and nothing but the outdoors is the place to be!
By far - Townsends is one of the best entertainers, and provides the best informative content, in the industry, not just UA-cam. I see these videos, and all of them it's just genuine love for his passion, and sharing the knowledge. Townsends, thank you, you're seriously a gift to this world.
Awesome! As an arquitect from Spain, the fact that you are recreating how they really built back then, is really interesting. Makes me wonder how this roof process was done in the south, with all those hurricanes and tempests
I’m struggling to paint a bedroom in an air conditioned house. Meanwhile, you’re repairing a cabin roof in a coat with primitive tools. I wish I had your tenacity.
How can anybody put a thumbs down on informational videos like this? I never knew there was a 'season' for getting bark off trees. I never gave getting bark off a tree any thought before. I love the videos Jon. Please keep making them.
Thank you for making these videos. There are now generations in america who are completely disconnected from any type of frontier or homesteading living!! You are a wealth of knowledge sir!! Gid bless you!!
It is video's like this that have started me doing woodwork my self using hand tools and knives. It is so rewarding to use your hands and creativity to create and solve problems along the way. No hightech gatget can beat that.
This is so cool! I would love to see you make furniture in the home, and how they would have made mattresses and beds for everyone. Keep up the awesome work!
I think these cabin videos are my absolute favorite out of all the content you create. Throughly enjoyable and heavily informative as well. I appreciate your hard work and dedication to this project, and your desire to share knowledge that honestly may become forgotten over time without people like yourself.
Love this video. Where I live, we have an antique machinery show where there are demonstrations on how cedar shingles were made from steam powered engines.
I love how he treats mostly everything in the context of his channel as if he’s really in the mid century. Especially so with repairing the cabin, he won’t use new tools, and won’t even wear modern day clothes. What I find even crazier, he won’t even put up the proper wooden shingles because it’s not winter. I think his channel is just an excuse to make his life an RPG! 😂
He doesn't put up shingles because they're not made yet and there's too much other stuff needing to be done. The bark is available now while they are felling trees. As he said, the shingles will be made in the winter when there is nothing else to do and put on in the spring.
This channel is about life how it was 200 years ago, and watching history reenacted is why so many many people love to watch these videos. You of course can do whatever you like. Live in the present century and enjoy all the stresses of modern convenience.
@@heidimisfeldt5685 What to me is fascinating, is how Townsends builds his cabin, which is clearly based on research of how 18th century settlers with not necessarily as much building experience built them, as opposed to how Scandinavians built their log cabins long before the 18th century in both Europe and when they settled here, in the United States as they began emigrating. The youtube channel "Northmen" has a Finnish log cabin build that was filmed in the 90's, but the old carpenters only used period tools (including draft horses to get the logs out of the woods), and period methods, and built something amazingly weatherproof and solid. Obviously a log cabin like this was a temporary structure. They'd use the lumber for other projects as they built a bigger, better house, leaving less extant cabins for us to find.
It’s been a couple of decades since I’ve read them but I remember from Laura Ingalls Wilder series of books, in the book actually titled Little house on the prairie, their log home was first roofed by the canvas from their wagon before they could get help to lift split logs onto the roof. I imagine in that situation even after getting a log roof up a resourceful pioneer would still find a way to hang that wagon canvas INSIDE the house in case of major leaks later on down the road I know in the army even when we were in squad sized tents we still brought out shelterhalfs with us and during the daytime would team up with a buddy and pitch a second tent inside to stow all our gear inside to keep it dry even to the point of tenting our cost at night to stay dry better
I love the humanity of "we've run out of bark". It's such a simple problem that must have repeated itself for generations throughout human history. Ties us in with our past, so to say. Archeologist Alexander Langland's book "Craeft" contains a whole chapter dedicated to thatch, and touches on how roofing practices followed the availability of materials. One observation he made while filming the BBC documentary "Tales From The Green Valley" was that they needed many times more roofing material for their little cow shed than they realized, because modern humans are so used to calling in an order to the hardware store and having it delivered in bulk, that the sheer bulk, and effort, that go into collecting materials from your environment changes the landscape and the way we interact with it. It was such a simple, but profound insight, that it's stuck with me.
Bark always wants to return to its natural shape. From what I see all your bark is turned the same way shedding water to the outer edges. I suggest alternating every other piece. Lay two pieces cambium layer up side by side place another piece outside bark up over the seam of the first two. This will she'd water into the trough formed by the pieces with cambium side up. Construct another entire layer on top as you are doing now for resilience.
Your Log Cabin series is absolutely intriguing to me, actually your whole channel content is Mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing your video and experiences.✌️
Prev you used the bark from trees you cut down. There's so very much to learn! I had no idea you could harvest bark in large sheets before watching this series. You have different species of trees than we do in NE Nevada. Ours tend to be scrub trees, w the exception of the Quaking aspen.
Nice use of a froe to split those shingles. Thanks to Dutch Elm Disease there are relatively few elms left. Only the Siberian Elm has decent resistance.
We love you Jon. Waiting to see what else you build. Keep the recipes coming! During Covid one of our great Joys is broadening our cooking skills alongside you
Could you do a video about how people had dogs back in those days? Like compared to now? I always see your dog in the videos and I think he deserves to be a star!
If you really wanna do the bark thing, I recently found out about where woodworkers (or whomever) layer wood with the grain going one way, and on the second layer the grain goes the other way (applies to plywood but not always.) This makes it incredibly strong, but I imagine that if you did this with the bark roofing, it would help. I picture this current layer going longways, then the next layer going parallel, then the third layer going longways. I figure that the splits will occur, as they obviously will, but then it wouldn't matter because the water can't travel between the splits (as easily.. we all know bark is not ideal roofing).
One thing that this series has taught me that I never thought about was how much maintenance a log cabin requires. Between the chinking, the roof, and the fireplace it seems like it would be pretty much ongoing.
Greetings from Mount Isa Australia. Living somewhere with it’s own unique frontier history I must say I really enjoy your channel. Keep up the great work!!
Popular makes the best shakes. As a boy at Cade’s Cove, part of the Great Smokey Mountains N.P., I watched an old timer make shakes from Popular for the repair of the roofs of the many 1800 era buildings they had at Cade’s Cove. It was summer time, too. All he had was short pieces of popular, an awl and a wood mallatt. He must have split a couple of bundles in the short time I watched him.
I really enjoy watching the videos you make. My family have enjoyed trying the recipes from your cooking videos. I’ve also enjoyed learning another form of history.
Looking forward to the next construction videos!! (Love the cooking videos, too, though!) I saw all of that damp tulip poplar bark and immediately thought CORDAGE! Thanks again, guys! Keep these awesome videos coming!
I've seen them put every other Row of bark with the cup facing up and then every other Row cup facing down resting in the cup up row which carry the water down. If that makes sens
Last video made me want to quit my job and go to build a cabin in the forest. This one, less so.
That’s the unique fun of living on the frontier
Tee-Hee! Right: dry was a relative term and even a temporary idea. In the day, 'damp' was probably better than 'drenched.'
This video and the previous one made me appreciate the house that I have-and the people who built it for me.
Even though this is not a cabin, it is a "fixer-upper" house that has need of outbuildings, like the woodshed and the combination hay insulated pipe house and kitty house on top of it. The pipe house is for the return air from the greenhouse on the side of our house that is fed warm air from the kitchen and returns to our laundry room where our woodstove is. And being of very low income, I decided to use a roof method from the great depression and that is to use food cans that are split open to using as shingles on the two roofs. And they work very well. Saved us a lot of money too. Yes, they have a patina to them but as the water flows off, it will be an extremely long time before any of them need to be replaced. Many things one can learn from this site and other related to homesteading and depression living that can be used in our modern-day life. Especially since our economy is in such a precarious position and could do a full-on collapse at any time soon.
You could change job and become a cabins in the woods builder.
The cinematography on these cabin videos never ceases to amaze! Fantastic job, guys!
Very nice! 👍🏽🙂
Right? It's like watching a professional program for PBS or the History Channel. ... actually, it's probably better 💖
The British thatch roof had an expected life span of 25 years, so re-thatching was a constant job. So, over time, the roof becomes thicker. Same approach with your bark roof. Adding more bark makes the roof thicker, and hopefully more water proof. Living history at its finest. Keep up the good work.
I was just reading Alexander Langland's "Craeft" and in the current chapter, he talks about thatch at length. It's quite a satisfying read, and every chapter a rabbit hole into yet another traditional craft that warrants further research and study for the average homestead geek reader. I wholeheartedly recommend it.
Would the frequency of the repairs go down with the years as it grew thicker? Wondering both about thatching and bark.
@@homesteadtotable2921 I just received that wonderful book. Delighted to discover that he was one of the archaeologists on Tales from the Green Valley, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm. The exploration of old ways and processes was fascinating, just as Townsend's are now.
Tales from the Green Valley ua-cam.com/video/wdn7EF5Ch3g/v-deo.html
Victorian Farm ua-cam.com/video/4apIM4l0laY/v-deo.html
Edwardian Farm ua-cam.com/video/UcBl4_2FJX4/v-deo.html
@@lindad1612 gosh i love tales of the green valley, just keep rewatching it and every time i discover something new i didn't notice before
This channel is getting better and better
Its never been sub-par.
Or, it's never been better
What a maneuver!
Why don’t you like them?
I love the demonstration of the seasonality of living off the land, how even a week can make the difference between being able to get the materials you need to put up a roof...or not. Such an insight into how closely our ancestors had to live in sync with natural cycles, compared to how we live today.
Hearing you say "blacksmithing, woodworking and working with clay" is music to my ears, cant wait. great job keep it up
I think seeing you guys working in the clothes of the era is one of my favorite things. I bet putting on those outfits to go out and do this really makes you feel like you're stepping into the past.
Every passing day in 2020 makes making my own cabin out in the woods seem like a better idea
I’d love nothing more than to have a cabin in the woods to escape to. Unfortunately I live in the UK where the population density and planning permission bureaucracy would stop me from doing this:(
Been thinking that more and more everyday!
@@Mister_Kourkoutas Just tell them that you're recreating a Celtic or Saxon settlement for experimental archeology!
@@WelshWebb UK government hates celebrating native heritage
Living off grid and escaping the crazy people in politics and liberalism.
I get a serious pioneer Alton Brown vibe from your videos. Thank you for all the knowledge.
I'm actually hoping to see more buildings to be built, some livestock too...
Stay tuned...
@@townsends Possibly a little forest garden?
Yes! And gardening.😃
@@townsends Would they keep bees, or just rely on finding wild bees and raiding their hives
you dont build livestock
can you revisit how well the hawthorn thorns worked a "nails"? You mentioned them when you put the roof on last year, was wondering how well they've weathered....
i love to see the failures, in many ways more than the successes. It does demonstrate what sort of annoyances and adversities people faced, especially as they had nowhere near the access to information and learning material we have these days.
Im sure many of them did not have someone with expertise to readily call on either, so had to learn these mistakes many times until they figured out a solution
Actually, I love this mishap. It shows what people back then also had to face. :) And still a great job overall!
it goes to show that the people back then, would really have maintain their things on a daily-weekly basis
Brokeback Cabin
This video made me so happy😊 from the cinematography to editing and amazing sound quality y’all are great. It’s amazing that Townsends went from a historical reproduction retailer to also producing top quality media content🙌🏽 Bless you guys
I have 500 acres in Kentucky that I would be willing to do this on, make a public venue where people can come visit and see how it was. Really cool you all are doing it!
Great video. I was kind of wondering why you weren't putting the boys to work over the winter with the froes. Better get that garden in, root cellar dug, corral and shelter for the mule. Keep up the good work!
I love the guitar music in this log cabin series. So relaxing.
Jon if you replace the bark with cedar be sure to use copper nails. The cedar shingles will last for 50 years but if you use steel nails they will rust out after 10 years and the shingles will fall off.
I love how randomly wholesome this channel is. Lots of interesting information, no nonsense from the modern world getting in the way, and a very happy cheery host. I love it.
i was homeless for a time (thanks mom and dad!) and modern plastic tarp are amazing!
This was wonderful Jon, a true rendition of normal conditions on the frontier. It was good of you to point out the seasonality of certain chores. Those of us raised on farms can attest to the truth of that. One of the largest chores we had in winter, (on the wheat and cattle ranch), was the chore of sharpening tools, and repairing equipment, both for our machinery and our horses. It would be nice to see a video on all the different implements you have, their repair if any, and sharpening process. I have no doubt you spend a fair amount of time on that chore.
The roof work was amazing to see. Such a natural way to take care of leaks using what you had on hand. I used to peel cascara bark in the spring with my grandpa, for medical companies he was under contract to. It was hard work, and you are so right about the window of opportunity for easier bark peeling. It was also my job to climb the tree's and cut off smaller limbs when he could no longer do it. At least you can cut your timber to the ground. We had to be careful not to cause injury to the tree that would kill it, so we could go back and peel it again in a few years. Thank you for another great episode in your homestead saga. These have been grand!
Wow incredible insight into living through history - I never thought about how time sensitive it would be to get bark off of trees and make shakes. Love seeing the cabin’s life as part of the cycle of nature!
I absolutely love the cabin build. But I’m truly amazed over the chimney being built from logs and clay mixture. I had know idea, I always thought that the chimneys were built from stone. Thanks for the education. You have a truly amazing channel.
And this is why birch-bark roofs have seven layers.
how did anyone not burn to death.
@@frankyflowers They did, plenty of times
Franky Flowers turf roofs, the sod keeps the birch bark compressed, and, assuming it doesn’t get TOO dry, the grass and soil prevent the roof from burning. If it rains reasonably regularly, it would work well. Healthy grass doesn’t burn very well
Honestly, that looks like paradise! Especially considering what the outside world is going through. A log cabin, with a nice fire, and nothing but the outdoors is the place to be!
This and Mr. Townsends “No Nails- Frontiersman Survival Shelter” are great videos for all of us who will need “Hoover Shanties” come fall!
Thanks for being a wholesome oasis in these troubling times.
By far - Townsends is one of the best entertainers, and provides the best informative content, in the industry, not just UA-cam. I see these videos, and all of them it's just genuine love for his passion, and sharing the knowledge. Townsends, thank you, you're seriously a gift to this world.
Awesome!
As an arquitect from Spain, the fact that you are recreating how they really built back then, is really interesting.
Makes me wonder how this roof process was done in the south, with all those hurricanes and tempests
I’m struggling to paint a bedroom in an air conditioned house. Meanwhile, you’re repairing a cabin roof in a coat with primitive tools. I wish I had your tenacity.
Cindy Klenk very true 😀
i wonder how they could film in 1080p back in the 1800s... wow just amazing ! Good job lads !
How can anybody put a thumbs down on informational videos like this?
I never knew there was a 'season' for getting bark off trees. I never gave getting bark off a tree any thought before.
I love the videos Jon. Please keep making them.
This is one of my favorite series on UA-cam. I look forward to every episode and check your channel regularly to make sure I don’t miss any.
"When it's wet I'd probably go right through it"
Good advice sir.
Thank you for making these videos. There are now generations in america who are completely disconnected from any type of frontier or homesteading living!! You are a wealth of knowledge sir!! Gid bless you!!
with the world the way it is right now these videos genuinely bring me joy, so thanks for that
It is video's like this that have started me doing woodwork my self using hand tools and knives. It is so rewarding to use your hands and creativity to create and solve problems along the way. No hightech gatget can beat that.
This is so cool! I would love to see you make furniture in the home, and how they would have made mattresses and beds for everyone. Keep up the awesome work!
This is the most wholesome channel on UA-cam.
Great! I was just planning on dying this winter, but thanks to this UA-cam video I now have the tips I need to make it through.
I almost feel bad saying this, but it's so relaxing to see you guys working so hard...thanks for the excellent content!!
"And don't forget to add a bit of nutmeg to the bark to enhance the roof fragrance"
Head over to "Thee Homestead Depot".
having someone else split logs and strip bark for you was the sort of thing a rich person, not a homesteader, would do.
LOL
J. D. Lol perfect
Thee Haus Depot
Realest content yet, a perfect opportunity to show how to deal with construction problems back in the day. As you said, nothing goes to waste.
Found this channel a few weeks ago while doing lessons and added in a lot of your videos for food and how people lived back then. Thank you so much!
I enjoy watching you embark on this project
I think these cabin videos are my absolute favorite out of all the content you create. Throughly enjoyable and heavily informative as well. I appreciate your hard work and dedication to this project, and your desire to share knowledge that honestly may become forgotten over time without people like yourself.
Loving this series, its your best work yet
I totally agree super interesting. Can't wait as the homestead develops through the upcoming years
Love this video. Where I live, we have an antique machinery show where there are demonstrations on how cedar shingles were made from steam powered engines.
I love how he treats mostly everything in the context of his channel as if he’s really in the mid century. Especially so with repairing the cabin, he won’t use new tools, and won’t even wear modern day clothes. What I find even crazier, he won’t even put up the proper wooden shingles because it’s not winter. I think his channel is just an excuse to make his life an RPG! 😂
He doesn't put up shingles because they're not made yet and there's too much other stuff needing to be done. The bark is available now while they are felling trees. As he said, the shingles will be made in the winter when there is nothing else to do and put on in the spring.
This channel is about life how it was 200 years ago, and watching history reenacted is why so many many people love to watch these videos.
You of course can do whatever you like. Live in the present century and enjoy all the stresses of modern convenience.
@@heidimisfeldt5685 What to me is fascinating, is how Townsends builds his cabin, which is clearly based on research of how 18th century settlers with not necessarily as much building experience built them, as opposed to how Scandinavians built their log cabins long before the 18th century in both Europe and when they settled here, in the United States as they began emigrating. The youtube channel "Northmen" has a Finnish log cabin build that was filmed in the 90's, but the old carpenters only used period tools (including draft horses to get the logs out of the woods), and period methods, and built something amazingly weatherproof and solid. Obviously a log cabin like this was a temporary structure. They'd use the lumber for other projects as they built a bigger, better house, leaving less extant cabins for us to find.
I'm going to watch this more than once because after the day I've had, I won't remember if I've watched the video. Keep up the great content
I don't understand how I have progressively become more and more into this channel.
I absolutely adore these Homestead videos! I can't wait to see what else you have in store for the land!
Hello I really enjoy watching someone living our heritage, someday we will need to know this stuff again maybe.
It’s been a couple of decades since I’ve read them but I remember from Laura Ingalls Wilder series of books, in the book actually titled Little house on the prairie, their log home was first roofed by the canvas from their wagon before they could get help to lift split logs onto the roof. I imagine in that situation even after getting a log roof up a resourceful pioneer would still find a way to hang that wagon canvas INSIDE the house in case of major leaks later on down the road
I know in the army even when we were in squad sized tents we still brought out shelterhalfs with us and during the daytime would team up with a buddy and pitch a second tent inside to stow all our gear inside to keep it dry even to the point of tenting our cost at night to stay dry better
I love the humanity of "we've run out of bark". It's such a simple problem that must have repeated itself for generations throughout human history. Ties us in with our past, so to say. Archeologist Alexander Langland's book "Craeft" contains a whole chapter dedicated to thatch, and touches on how roofing practices followed the availability of materials. One observation he made while filming the BBC documentary "Tales From The Green Valley" was that they needed many times more roofing material for their little cow shed than they realized, because modern humans are so used to calling in an order to the hardware store and having it delivered in bulk, that the sheer bulk, and effort, that go into collecting materials from your environment changes the landscape and the way we interact with it. It was such a simple, but profound insight, that it's stuck with me.
Ok... I’ve just spent the last hour and a half watching your videos and I’m absolutely loving this!
Really enjoying this series. Very excited to see the upcoming videos!
My children are absolutely fascinated by your videos!
wow. Such intensive work. It would never be done. Our ancestors either worked or died. Amazing.
These videos bring me so much peace right now. Thank you. ❤️
These videos are always amazing. Great to see the upkeep necessary for a cabin.
They also had much bigger trees in the frontier!
That's a great point. Most of the forests were old growth, because of the low population of Indians already living there compared to today.
i swear I would watch you guys build things every day. So cool.
I'm definitely looking forward to the blacksmithing content. This whole project has been my favorite thing so far.
This channel is a gift.
4:06 - "That's a big piece..." - Lol, no kidding - looks like you skinned a dragon!
I literally LOL'd at that point myself.
Bark always wants to return to its natural shape. From what I see all your bark is turned the same way shedding water to the outer edges. I suggest alternating every other piece. Lay two pieces cambium layer up side by side place another piece outside bark up over the seam of the first two. This will she'd water into the trough formed by the pieces with cambium side up.
Construct another entire layer on top as you are doing now for resilience.
Your Log Cabin series is absolutely intriguing to me, actually your whole channel content is Mesmerizing.
Thank you for sharing your video and experiences.✌️
Prev you used the bark from trees you cut down. There's so very much to learn! I had no idea you could harvest bark in large sheets before watching this series.
You have different species of trees than we do in NE Nevada. Ours tend to be scrub trees, w the exception of the Quaking aspen.
With all the crazy going on right now. It's videos like this that bring me some peace.
I almost want to keep it quiet now, considering the way some people are behaving.
GOOD WORK!!!!! I WONDERED HOW LONG THAT BARK ROOF WOULD LAST.I GOT MY ANSWER,NOT VERY LONG.
We could very well be seeing the first inception of what might, someday, become the Townsend's Living History Museum!
Looking forward to all the prejects.
I learn so much from you. Thank you for sharing.
Nice use of a froe to split those shingles. Thanks to Dutch Elm Disease there are relatively few elms left. Only the Siberian Elm has decent resistance.
We love you Jon. Waiting to see what else you build. Keep the recipes coming! During Covid one of our great Joys is broadening our cooking skills alongside you
Could you do a video about how people had dogs back in those days? Like compared to now? I always see your dog in the videos and I think he deserves to be a star!
I love these videos as they are a great window into the past, that also serves to make me thankful for the modern amenities we enjoy today!
Love your determination Jon. Stay awesome.
As a blacksmith myself I'm very excited to see what a forge might look like on this homestead.
It’s so cool to see how y’all take off the bark like that!
I am very excited to see the further development of the homestead! Such a neat and cool project.
Water is wonderful. It flows where you don't want it and where you do, it won't go.. As experienced at my Oregon rain forest home....
So much work for a small cabin, but You seem to be enjoying all the processes. I'll be waiting for the next projects.
These are some of my favorite videos.
I love the guitar music in the background of these building videos, it's so calming and gives a great ambiance.
If you really wanna do the bark thing, I recently found out about where woodworkers (or whomever) layer wood with the grain going one way, and on the second layer the grain goes the other way (applies to plywood but not always.)
This makes it incredibly strong, but I imagine that if you did this with the bark roofing, it would help.
I picture this current layer going longways, then the next layer going parallel, then the third layer going longways. I figure that the splits will occur, as they obviously will, but then it wouldn't matter because the water can't travel between the splits (as easily.. we all know bark is not ideal roofing).
One thing that this series has taught me that I never thought about was how much maintenance a log cabin requires. Between the chinking, the roof, and the fireplace it seems like it would be pretty much ongoing.
Greetings from Mount Isa Australia. Living somewhere with it’s own unique frontier history I must say I really enjoy your channel. Keep up the great work!!
These vids always make me appreciate that our ancestors were NOT hearty souls.... only the ones who survived the immense hardships were.
I am excited this summer will be homestead projects!
Excellent! This has become what I hoped this channel would be!
I'd love to see a cooking video in the cabin as it rains outside! Nothing cozier!
Popular makes the best shakes. As a boy at Cade’s Cove, part of the Great Smokey Mountains N.P., I watched an old timer make shakes from Popular for the repair of the roofs of the many 1800 era buildings they had at Cade’s Cove. It was summer time, too. All he had was short pieces of popular, an awl and a wood mallatt. He must have split a couple of bundles in the short time I watched him.
I really enjoy watching the videos you make. My family have enjoyed trying the recipes from your cooking videos. I’ve also enjoyed learning another form of history.
Looking forward to the next construction videos!! (Love the cooking videos, too, though!) I saw all of that damp tulip poplar bark and immediately thought CORDAGE! Thanks again, guys! Keep these awesome videos coming!
Thanks for this series .. it's relaxing and its educational and it is nice to watch something that's pretty wholesome.
I really want some more videoes from inside the cabin. Just the sound of that dripping rain was amazing. Give me that atmosphere
im excited to see black smithing when that time comes! but loving the homestead project sofar! keep up the good work!
I've seen them put every other Row of bark with the cup facing up and then every other Row cup facing down resting in the cup up row which carry the water down. If that makes sens