200 Year Old Building Foundation Finally Revealed: Our Homestead Ireland
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Join us today as we continue to excavate, by hand, the foundations of the 200 year old stone building on our homestead in Ireland. Without digging to deeply, to prevent undermining the bottom stones, Ben takes his time before finally being able to reveal the bottom row of stone of this 200 year old building before removing more dirt and stones to gain access to the second outbuildings door. We have only ever seen the ground raised at the door, so this is exciting for us.
The quality of soil is incredible where it has been worked for over 200 years, however, the lower area of the ground isn't so lucky. The very shallow bedrock prevents water from draining leaving a muddy mess. Land drainage will be required for this area and many areas on the homestead.
Being complete beginners on a homestead, we are taking it slowly, enjoying everything we do no matter how hard it is to one day, realise our dream of running a fully functioning homestead.
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You certainly have a lot of perseverance and patience, I would have got a mini digger in by now. xxx❤
It is close, well nearly close, to being finished. At the moment we have learned where the bedrock is, where the wet spots are and how much drainage we need you to come over and dig for us hahaha.
We spent so many days deciding when we would need digger Rob we have done it all lol.
Hope you are both keeping well and we will see you soon xxx
@@thecornerhouseproject That will be lovely to see you all in the flesh, I'm afraid my digging days are well and truly over. Ben xxx
I was going to say ancient balloon cannisters lol. They are not puddles - they are welly washers 😃 You two make me feel tired watching the hard work you do again and again and again. Hats off you both
That would have been a good guess... Dawn said about them being compressed air canisters before thinking of batteries.
Haha, Dawn calls the one up the top her welly washing place. Then we walk back through all of the mud and mess them up again.
We make us tired watching us too hahahaha. We sleep well each night.
Thank you as always Tracy for joining us, and commenting :-) See you Friday :-)
I couldn’t even begin to guess about the battery things since I’m over here in America and everything is different here. Those ivy roots are so invasive, but you’ve done AMAZING at finding the cornerstones! I absolutely love the music, birds chirping, and all the greenery and ancient stones. The old soil looks so rich and healthy, I live in the desert and even the dirt here is dry and dead, and I can almost smell the fresh dark soil through my phone screen. And little over time, you’ll sort out all the drainage on your land. Have a lovely day, and it’s always a pleasure to see you guys!😊❤
Aww thank you and it’s always lovely to see you comment too. Hope you are doing ok, considering what’s going on in your life?
Sooo chuffed to get down to ground level! It means that part is dug as much as we have to! lol wonderful to see the first beginning stone that would have been laid at the very least 200 years ago! Blows my mind to think about that!
If I never see Ivy again it will be too soon! It’s such a right royal pain in the backside isn’t it?! It’s just everywhere! The soil is amazing, we lived in a new build before this and the soil and ground was awful, so awful that even the grass couldn’t really grow very well!
We are looking forward to being able to sort the drainage, we realise it will always been a bit damper than the average garden but if we can decrease the amount that sits around it should help. ❤️
This section is coming along nicely. Down to the cornerstones, and you can walk straight out the door! I Googled antique/vintage batteries, and it seems the units that go into the box are called battery cells; the box is called a battery case; and the entire unit is called a battery. 😁
It’s looking really good there now! Ben did a great job getting to the cornerstones and being able to just walk in and out of the outbuilding is great! Ooh I like it, thank you for googling that. Took us a little while to figure it out when we found them 😂
My father and uncle in the late 1950 to 1960 ran a fencing business in the station country out from Broken Hill, we boys always went out bush with them during school holidays and I well remember huddling around my uncles Phillips portable valve radio after sunset listening to the crackly old radio series that were the mainstay. These took two battery packs . I looked on google and one was an A and the other B which was much larger. Those were the days for young boys. 😊❤
Aww what a lovely memory that is! Funny how little things like us stood there wondering what these weird things were can trigger such lovely memories! So far we’ve only come across one partially intact battery pack, but there have been soo many of those little ones that I think the other pack has probably disintegrated now. I love a good trip down memory land of childhood memories and I’m glad we triggered that one you ❤️
Beautiful shot of the tree growing up the side of the outhouses! You are making brilliant progress! It’s great seeing how you’re getting on!
Good evening, how are you and your frogs?
That tree sadly was ivy and was the cause of the roof falling in. Well, that isn't strictly true, we were the reason as we removed ALL of the ivy and it just so happened to be holding up the roof :-(
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Thanks for watching and commenting :-)
@@thecornerhouseproject the froggies have all gone but they left lots of frogspawn behind so we’ll see what comes out! That’s a shame it was ivy and ruined the roof 😅 but the pattern is beautiful at least!
You both must have done your homework on old buildings, it's brilliant what you both know..
Not one lazy bone in either of your bodies. Well done guy's, everywhere is looking smashing 👏👏👏
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Ooh should have lots of little tadpoles soon! How exciting! Our ditches have been too dry for frogspawn this year….maybe next year. It is a shame Ivy is so destructive because it does look nice on a building doesn’t it?
We’ve done a lot of reading on stone buildings…it’s important to learn I think…especially if you plan on trying to repair them lol. Watched lots of UA-cam videos too.
We do try not to be lazy but the thought of scraping all the land back and starting again…too much thinking and planning involved 🤣 🍀❤️
There you go putting me to shame I am a keen gardener but not in the rain. Kudos to you both
Haha, more necessity than choice, but to be honest, with the rain costs on (mine is always on) and the trousers of really wet, you don't really notice.
Thank you Colin for joining us tonight :-)
Ooh that beautiful soil!
Ooh I know it’s bloody lovely soil and we seem to have quite a lot of it! Haha
Oh it really is. Even when it is lashing down with rain it doesn't really clump together and become mud. It does like to try and suck your wellies off though with enough rain lol.
Thank you Andie :-)
You both are revealing clear evidence of how ancient towns and sites get covered over with time. Love to see a walk to the lake sometime, perhaps with a bit of drone footage and birdsong. Perhaps as an ambient sound video that I could donate to ;)
It’s quite fascinating to be honest, trying to figure it all out, finding the bedrock has made us think that gravel and soil were put down to level the land when the bedrock was concave in places and then the years that the house has been empty and the garden left to its own devices has probably raised the land level quite a lot. I’m sure we could sort something out like for you! Ben was planning on sticking the drone up today but didn’t get around to it in the end, but we will get that sorted for you.
dont do it just for me, please! I was thinking it might be a way for you to generate a bit of income on youtube, hugs
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You two are digging for victory! Keep up the good work - it is going to look FANTASTIC ! You will end up with an amazing home and gardens😊 it is great to see the love between you as you laugh and work together ❤
Hahaha it certainly feels like it Sharon! Fingers crossed we do it justice after all the work to get it there! lol we do have a laugh doing it all…now we have learnt not to be scared about doing stuff to the house and garden it’s become much more fun doing it all! ❤️
Isn’t it nice not to see one piece of plastic too ! Labour of love x
It would be lovely but we do come across some unfortunately. It has a silver lining though because it’s definitely made us conscious of using and throwing away plastic! It just does not age. Living here and being mainly off grid from the beginning has made us think about a lot of things we use to be fair.
Such hard workers you are making your place more beautiful every day.
Thank you! We are finally starting to see that could actually happen now….sometimes when you look around at all the destruction and mess you are creating it’s really hard to see what could be, but I feel like we are getting close to where I can finally let my mind wonder to plans for areas of the land and what it will become. 😘
When you look back the house always looks so impressive.
Lots of people say that. Hopefully it will look nicer as time goes on :-)
Elbow grease + patience + determination ❣️❣️❣️
I think we need a bit more elbow grease as one the thing we have found always aches since doing the joists in the kitchen are our elbows. The patience I have, Dawn wants it all done at once. Determination is Dawn's thing, I get bored to easily and easily distracted by the nice things lol.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting so often :-)
I reckon that lovely soil is probably the end result of forty year old manure piles....As the cottage is old, I'd guess somewhere there is a pit filled with all the household rubbish from way back when.
You could be right with the soil. It is gorgeous. Even after a downpour of rain, the slightest bit of sun and it just crumbles again.
Rubbish - check, but we never film it.
Thank you Diane for being here :-)
Gazing back at the outbuilding, it just looks amazing. That soil looks so rich and lovely. Good growing medium.
It’s a bloody lovely view from there isn’t it? The house looks like it’s keeping watch over its smaller buildings and land! 😍 it is bloody lovely soil! Looking forward to being able use some of it for growing! Hoping for this year but we will see, there is soo much to do everywhere I never seem to be able to find the time!
Hi Guys, I have just found your channel. It looks very interesting. I don’t know your names yet, sorry. I’m going to go back to the beginning and binge watch all of your videos until I catch up. Thank you so much, and the very best of luck. I’m sure it will be a huge job but hopefully will be amazing when you are finished. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Hi Deirdre and welcome to the channel and thank you in advance for binge watching! Please excuse the early videos because the video and the sound quality is awful! 🫣🤣 I’m Dawn and he is Ben 😊
Oh yes I think it will be a huge job, but like you say hopefully by the time we’ve finished , whenever that may be lol, it should look lovely! 🥰 Hope you enjoy catching up ❤️
Your hard work is shining thru ✨️
Hi Lynn, hope you are well.
It is getting there isn't it. A bit of a mess out the back at the moment, but give it a bit of time and I am sure we can get it looking nice.
Have a lovely weekend and thank you :-)
Thanks!
Wow Mary, thank you so much, that is really kind of you. You should have waited until the end as the rest of the video might be rubbish haha.
Thank you again, so much :-)
They are Dry Cell Batteries, because you don't add water or acid. A great improvement in convenience over the old Glass Batteries.
Thank you, strangely I have found some more today whilst digging. There’s quite a lot 😂
Covering the top course of the stone walls you are excavating with a waterproof membrane (plastic sheet, felt paper, pond liner, etc.) and weighing it down with stones will stop the rain water damage. It is likely the mortar between the stones was mud, So the sooner you can stop water soaking through the entire wall - the better. Just for preservation purposes. 😊
Thanks Steve. Hopefully it won't be too long before we can start to repair the outbuilding and get a roof back on it. The section of wall that has fallen in is due to the tree we spoke of and the other dodgy place is where the doorway was widened in the past. There is a lot of work to be done on it. We did think about tarping the lot but with the walls being like they are in places, the wind may do more damage than good.
The days are getting warmer ad lighter, so hopefully, not to much longer to wait.
Thanks for watching and commenting :-)
@@thecornerhouseproject You bet! Best of luck 👍
I think Dawn is right. They are batteries. Keep up the good work, you will get there. Can't wait to see the end result.
Well done yep, they were batteries 🔋 lots and lots of them. Thank you, we’re starting to feel like we’re finally getting there now! Still some bits and pieces to do but none so hard as what we’ve just done lol until we have to move all those stones 🤣
May I suggest a round shovel with a long handle or two and a wheelbarrow? I believe you will be able to move more earth with less physical exertion. Do you have a place to dump the diggings? The soil is likely very nutrient dense. I would suggest dumping it anywhere you want to raise the grade and anyplace where you want to plant. My hunch is at one time, that was the manure pile. 👍
We do have a round shovel with a long handle but stupidly forgot to get it out the shed. We will use it when we investigate a little more whether there is a stone filled base under that raised up area. We have a smallish area where we could dump some but not a huge amount. This is our trouble really there’s not too many places that we could put it. We could put some around the blackcurrants and the raspberries.
We’ve had a few people say that may have been the manure pile and the more we think about it….we think you’re all right! It would make sense with how lovely the soil is too! 😊
@@thecornerhouseproject That's what happens as farmers age. The manure pile gets closer and closer to the animal shed. Eventually, they just throw it out the door - and they can't throw very far. 😊
My arms were aching just watching you swing the mattock. That tool gets mighty heavy after a while.
Since you are in Ireland and your soil does not drain quickly, have you given some thought to raised garden beds for veggies?
You have the space if that is something that interests you 👍
They are batteries. Found some when digging my garden.
Haha, how many did you find? We must have found 30 odd, but you will find out why later in the video.
Thank you so much Marian for commenting with your answer :-)
Ben and Dawn my guess are they cells out of an old wet and dry battery which were used in radio's before people had electricity.Just a guess.Fantastic work achieved, no slacking on both your parts.Take care and God bless you both xx
We think you are spot on Colette and someone else mentioned about radios too. We do slack now and again and wander off down the land land where it’s much greener and pretty! 🤣. You take care too Colette xx
Definitely out of an old radio battery.
Hi guys, not surprised you have some really good soil, you can turn that-,not so good soil by feeding it Compos ,fallen leaves (l collect all my fallen leaves),and other waste matter.Loveing the Bird watch.👍
P,S I throw all my tea bags on the soil too Guys.😘😘
...or should I say"Robin watch 😂
We do love all the birds around. The app is brilliant.
We need to make a compost heap yet, we will get there :)
Thank you Auntie Chris, we will have lots of leaves :-) xxx
I’m really enjoying catching up with your new home and what great progress you have made already.
I have to admit that when I see the view from the land to the house now the roof of the outbuilding is down it looks so beautiful that I would be tempted to take down the out buildings and use the stone for a lovely courtyard in its place - just a thought
Hi, thank you for watching and commenting and for catching up.
The view up from the land is lovely and once the house is re-rendered and maybe whitewashed it will look amazing. BUT..... the out buildings are older than the house, one still having the original flagstones on the ground and the entrance stone where the door was all worn down with the hundreds of years of footfall. A courtyard really would look nice, especially with the old stones but we couldn't sacrifice the buildings to make it. Hopefully this year will see it repaired and a new roof on it. We were gutted when the roof collapsed.
Thanks again for watching :-)
You are getting there!
Bit by bit Grace and slowly haha. But we are learning a lot and enjoying every step of the way.
Thank you for watching and commenting :-)
Great work again lots of progress being made. All the best from sunny Nairn.
Thank you William and thank you for watching and commenting :-)
Daily archeology 😂❤
Haha, I don't think I look quite as old a Tony Robinson yet.... do I ? lol
Thank you for watching and commenting tonight Vickie :-)
Great progress guys! Wish I had some of that soil, my yard is like growing grass on concrete. Very poor soil.
Good evening Ed.
Our previous house was like that. It was a new build and I think the put clay down for top soil and then tried to grow grass on it. The soil here really looks amazing. We don't know how well it will grow veg but blackcurrents, ivy and brambles love it haha.
Have a nice rest of the day :-)
Great video. No worries about getting 4k subs! Can I suggest getting stout/robust waterproof boots.. your ankles will grow to hate wellys! Superb work as always.
I’ve just check just before writing this and we are 10 subs away! Woo hoo! 👏🥳 yes so think some good work boots might be in order…we sink so far in some places that wellies have really been a godsend. Fingers crossed once we sort the drainage issues out we can just wear normal boots 😂
How awesome that you didn't know what day it was, that is really great. Your son must've had an interesting wake up, I'm sure he's looking at the ceiling in a very new way lol.😂❤
Yes, you could call it that! It did make him a bit wary of going back in there! Screws are the way forward 😂 holding tight now!
Ben’s terrible with days 😂 although our days do seem to merge right on into the other at the moment 😂
Brilliant work as always guys. Take a break and pop up and see us sometime. ❤
I am sure one day we will drag ourselves away and come for a trip.
Gooooo! You guys are really moving on. So interesting what you are uncovering.
We are getting there day by day Rebecca, a big push today to see if we can get the other foundations uncovered. Fingers crossed.
Thanks for again watching and commenting on our videos :-)
I'm 99% sure they're fuses, bottle fuses (officially called Diazed). Ireland never really used UK-style rewirable fuses as far as I know. These fuses are ceramic "bottles" with a metal terminal either end, filled with sand and the fuse wire goes from terminal to terminal. If they blow, you replace them (or bodge them up with wire, tinfoil, nails or anything conductive and suitable to burn your house down because it will let much more current through than the original fuse wire). The end with the flat cap has a tiny coloured metal disc attached to the wire. If the fuse blows, the disc is supposed to come off to let you know which fuse to replace (present tense because you can still buy those fuses at every DIY store).
Have a look at the old fuses above your back door, if you unscrew the caps you should find fuses just like these, probably one size larger though. Diazed fuses came in five physical sizes and each size came in a range of amps. The ones in your garden look like DI (1-16 amps I think) while the ones in the kitchen are DII (1-25 amps). DIII (35-63 amps) and up were rare in domestic properties, except as main fuses.
The tips look much too beefy for battery cells to me. Try to clean up some of them and see if you can find any markings. On the other hand the fabric covering does sound like battery cells, I have to admit I'm confused!
Hi Ragnar, thanks for such an in depth comment.
We have the Diazed fuses, I found them on Google when we first moved here called bottle fuses as you say, in the old fuse board we took from the kitchen and although they look like them, these really are batteries. Today we found a typical ever ready battery with half decayed and it looked pretty much like the early ones I had in my hand. Sadly I didn't really show it on camera but the case (battery) I found still had the single cells in it.
I will try and get a decent image of one tomorrow and do a google image search to see what it comes up with.
With you saying about tin foil and nails as a bodge. I read using a nail took a 15amp or whatever size had blown up to about 1000amps or some "house a blaze" amount anyway. Tin foil was my quick test go to, just to confirm it was the fuse before I had a multi-meter.
Thanks again for a great comment :-)
4000 subscribers! Congratulations!
We are over the moon. When we came back in today (Thursday) and we saw it had jumped up to 4000 and just above. Thank you to everyone who has subscribed recently and everyone who has subscribed since we started the channel back in May 2023.
I love it. My goodness you guys have done so much. It's amazing seeing that space open up. With every video there's such transformation. Even in the rain.
Yeah can’t let the rain stop you otherwise you’d not get anything done here lol it rains a lot 😂. But to be fair the previous couple of weeks have been quite dry and we’ve been quite lucky since we started the land to not have too many wet days 🥳
Fingers crossed by the end of tomorrow we should finished it….sort of 😂 it’s going to be an ongoing thing…
greatt i bn waitin to watch this ,now ill be quiet n watch uxx
Ok we’ll be quiet too while you watch 😉❤️xx
bloody great , u 2 are doin so well ,as i said b4 ,i bet u sleep wellxx @@thecornerhouseproject
You're making great progress on this. Must be very tiring.
Oh it definitely is tiring! Can’t deny we will both very happy when it’s done! Hope you’re doing alright Tracy? X
hi dawn and ben !
Good evening Chewy :-)
Crikey, another great difference. Perhaps you should have brought your wet suits out :P Slackers you are not x
Hi Ellen, I am really pleased with that little path through the building. Wood chips are now down to hide the puddle and seems to be doing the trick.
It really did rain and for quite some time. But in no time Dawn was back in her T-shirt. We don't like to stop as it is hard to start again haha.
Thank you for always watching and commenting Ellen :-)
Thank you for sharing, I am just astounded at the ability you have to not only do the hard graft, but then to get videos put up- no mean feat and much appreciated :)
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Class job hi
Making light work of it getting stronger each day you are at one with mother earth good for you keep up the good work
Hi Stephen
We are certainly stronger than when we came, still exhausting though, maybe you to tell as I was trying to speak lol.
That is one really nice thing about doing it manually. We benefit from it in the end and we learn along the way. It helps us make plans or change plans as we go. I suppose you could say we make it up as we go along hahaha.
Thank you for watching and commenting :-)
@@thecornerhouseproject I watch more videos on UA-cam that Netflix and telly put together your journey is very interesting 💚⚒️🔧💡🤗😊🌳⛏️🛠️🌎🇮🇪🦡🐸🌲🌿☘️💮🐞🐝🕸️⏰🌝🌓🌈☔🔍🔦⚒️🧰
Yeah same here! We haven’t watched tv really since we moved over and even before that we watched more UA-cam than anything else. You can’t beat it really can you? It just has anything and everything that you can think of that you want to watch or learn about! 🍀❤️ p.s lovely emojis! Especially like the badger! 🦡
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Aww thank you, that’s very much appreciated! I must admit we do like a bit of order in and out the house! Makes us happy! 😊
It's great to see your progress, wet clay is hard to rake and move. Nice to see foundation stones bring uncovered. So much achieved in the last 6 weeks, well done to you both 💛
Thank you ☺️ Yeah it was hard going in places but on a whole the soil is really good, not so easy to move in the rain though lol It’s lovely to see the foundation stone for 2 reasons….1. They’re just lovely to see and 2. Because it means we can stop digging! Yay! 🥳
We’ve slowed down a bit on this part…but tomorrow we plan to get it finished! Keep your fingers crossed for us! ❤️
Another awesome accomplishment! You have really done an amazing job of getting to a level area at the back door of the outbuildings.. It is coming on beautifully... So many interesting finds and conundrums to follow. I look forward to seeing what comes from Dawn digging near the ditch on the side of the garden where the "stream" sits. Hope you have a lovely few days and see you on Friday.
Ooh it’s so lovely to be able to walk straight through into the building…we’d had to get into a habit of ducking when we went in from that way because when you hit your on a stone lintel…it hurts a little! Haha…so it’s great to just walk in through now. Looking forward to there being a complete path once we’ve pulled all that soil back.
Finds and conundrums are what keep us stubbornly sticking to the no machinery at the moment, because we would miss all the curious things we come across!
I’m not sure there will be much getting out there today as it’s forecast for a lot of rain all day, good on one hand for our water supply…bad on the other….its soooo muddy everywhere! 😂 See you Friday 😘
Hiya. Are those things off a door hinge. Hope all is well with you both. Ah thats what they are. At least they didnt go bang.
Hi Rebekah, we are well thank you. How about you?
The things in my hand do you mean?
@@thecornerhouseproject I'm not brill at the moment. I've had a really upsetting day personally but I will get over it with time. Yes I did mean the things in Ben's hands.
Just amazing the progress 😅your uncovering the past, to bring it into the future, well done guys, love your channel xxx
Thank you Marion! We love that you love! ❤️ Uncovering the past is what excites me the most about it all! Love it! 🥰
You work so well together and are making great progress. ❤
Thank you Deirdre, we have our moments lol but yeah on a whole we do work well together 😘
Do you have a probing rod to stick down through the top soil to the bedrock? You can poke down around the outside walls to see how deep the footings are. The walls should also be wider at the bottom of the wall than they are at the top of the wall to hold the weight and lean to the inside just slightly so there is the counter pressure from the beams and joists for the roof, You might think the walls are slighting leaning in, but that doesn't mean it is unstable it is built that way. If it is big lean there may have been a bracing system inside at one time. You will see metal pieces or wooden pieces and pockets in the stone walls where braces were attached or beams were inserted. Look up bracing for stone walls and you will recognise the remnants of the original braces - also you will need to do the same thing when rebuilding different parts/sections of the walls, that old wood you kept will come in handy for bracing. It's amazing what a person can forget over time and then remember later (even if the memories are all out of order lol). If I find the curing time for mortar I will email it to you but I think it's one week for each inch of mortar in wall thickness. Alternatively, 90 days cure time before you can put a roof on top of the walls (weather permitting). It is a long slow process but so worth it when your done. Stone work season is March through October. November to February it is too cold for mortar to cure.
Hahaha email sent - it's a short one - really, it is. I promise.
Good morning Janie, how are you today? Raining here again today, but we now have 4000 litres of water which is great news, with more rain to come.
Yes, we have a piece of rebar which we used to find the sewer pipe on the land and it has been so handy. I think a couple of videos past Dawn was probing when we had found the large steps. And then you see us shoving something in the ground in various places in the last couple of video. It has been a great tool for finding solid ground.
The SPAB books Dawn has, well with that said, all of her books on the old buildings are brilliant for info. I think she started watching and ordering books before we had even been over to took at somewhere to buy, so about 18 months. I get excited when a pair of gloves arrive, at the same time Dawn will state "Oh that will be the xyz book I ordered" and sure enough, it is a lime book, house book, homesteading book, something or other to join her ever growing library of books haha.
Yes sadly the time of year and the house taking priority meant the outbuilding couldn't be worked on with lime. As you know though, it is all here and waiting to be mixed. Dawn can't wait to start on that outbuilding.... who knows.... maybe it will become the workshop as originally intended (before the roof collapsed)
Thanks for the email, we will reply as always :-)
Thank you as always for such a great list of pointers, info and everything else above. :-)
@@thecornerhouseproject Yeah Water! How much would it cost for a 4000+ litre dry well to be cored out, that you fill with rain water? (creating a dry well by drilling down in the bedrock and removing a core). You could harvest the stone at the same time for building too. You have water, it just needs to drain to a containment well with a pump and aerator.
So funds needed for the Stove and the Well?? An Aga seems expensive but when you consider the price of a furnace and a stove separately and the associated costs with running ducting or pipes from a furnace an Aga isn't that expensive. I just though I'd put that out there into the universe and to those who are donating. Dawn deserves an Aga!!
Hi love watching your discoveries, The wild primroses in your previous video reminded me of my childhood spent in the country and the bird song looking to build their nests. Wondered if you have a spring well near the property as most old farm buildings were not connected to any water supply and relied on the spring well for fresh spring water. Also there was probably no electricity for many years. I may have missed the video where you discovered old traditions from old Ireland. O could the object you found be a spark plug pack for a milking machine? Take care x
Hopefully we can get some primroses growing in our newly cleaned wall as they don't seem to mind where they grow. It was really nice to see them for the first time since being here just growing out of the mud covered wall along the lane. The birds are going nuts at the moment looking for nesting spots. The Robin is funny as he waits for us to go before he sneaks into his new home for the year.
There is a well along the road sadly now is contaminated with water coming from off the road. It is 110m away from the house and was indeed the main fresh water for the area. There are two wells and they may have been a third but it is unclean on the old maps. We think electric was connected here in the 50's going by the round three pin plugs found in older houses. In the 60's these were changed to the current UK standard rectangle 3 pin plugs. There were only two plugs in the kitchen. The other rooms in the house only had light switches. What amazes me is that the last place in Ireland to have electricity was not until 1979 and it was an entire town or village.
Spoiler alert lol. They were batteries, as you will have found out but they look very much like the old bottle fuses the house originally had, so it is a good guess.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting Milly :-)
The merlin bird app,is quite addictive, downloaded it a few weeks ago when you first mentioned it, its surprising how many different species we get in our little urban garden in Hull.Keep going your garden looks so good😊
Hi Rita
We love the Merlin app. That video was from 45 minutes of it being sat on the wall. It is lovely to be able to find out what bird is making what sound. Dawn swears the Chafinch sings and sings and then says "stranger" at the end.
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Wait for the second camera angle. The last tiny bit of his song. I will warn you though..... once you hear it you can't unhear it. I wish Dawn had never pointed it out.
@thecornerhouseproject HI Ben and Dawn, your right I can't unhear it now,beautiful birds,we get them in my garden and greenfinch, very flighty not easy to spot.nice to sit in the garden trying to spot the birds as they flash up on the app,even in the rain, 😂
I love that your using a concrete rack !
I would have never guessed a battery, they almost looked like weights. You two have the patience of Job, moving all that earth. I’m sure my husband and I would have at least two arguments on getting a digger in to level it all, but then you would miss all the treasures, even if they are old batteries. The Maryland chapter of Blossom watch would like to report a couple of blossoms have been observed on bushes, but still the trees are holding off. I guessing about a week and we may be reporting tree blossoms. See ya Friday.
This is it, I like the treasure aspect and I’d hate the thought I was missing out on something special! 😂 now and again I’ve stood and looked around it all and thought “we should get a digger!” Because it had been hard going at times! But we’re nearly there now so we just keep ploughing through it. Ooh lovely with the Maryland blossom 🌸 we now have some leaves sprouting on the apple trees and lots of little leaves popping out and ooh some little fluffy catkins on the willows. It’s lovely to see them all coming back to life isn’t it? ❤️
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When I first started watching I thought that dreaded rain again ugh, then I remembered that I lived in Ireland for 2 years I remember all the rain and my husband has a weather app on his watch and it's Belfast weather because he's from there and then Oklahoma weather and he said to me today they've got five more days of rain in Belfast he goes I'm not missing that. But he hates our summers. Went to thrift stores with my sister again today and she actually stayed up on her own two feet lol well I hold on to her and I won't let her go lol I can't believe how much you two have accomplished. You're going to have to save your drone at the beginning when it was all brushed over to when you're in the middle of the clearing where you are now and then the very end when it's starting to get established. Great process! Much love from Oklahoma USA Jackie 🇺🇸💖 PS I just realized that from that angle that looks like steps going up to the property? Could it be? Yeah that flat dirt looks like Cherry crumble the other one looks like a cherry dump cake 😂 that is an actual cake 😂
Yeah we have the same sort of forecast here too, we’re not too far from Belfast as the crow flies! 😂 Today is forecast for quite a bit of rain but if my weather app is to believed, tomorrow should be a lovely day! We shall see! Does it get very hot in Oklahoma for the summer? Funnily enough I said to Ben the other day, I am so glad we are doing this sort of work now and not in the summer….i run a bit hot at the best of times but when working I feel like I might explode! So I’m quite thankful for the chill and rain here at the moment!
Ooh I’d love to go the thrift stores you have over there…Lukas went to some in Canada and wow they are so much different to what we are used to! Did you get anything nice? So glad to hear your sister stayed upright! How is her arm doing now?
It’s going to be great to see the difference with the drone shots….ben bought the drone out with us yesterday but we completely forgot to send it up…fingers crossed the rain holds off at some point today we can get it up for a look!
We’re looking forward to getting that mound of soil gone and down to floor level to see what there is there….i feel like there could be something step like down there🤞 Cherry dump cake! Wow other than cherries what does that consist of?
Thank you as always Jackie, it’s like having a little chat with a friend when you comment! ❤️
@@thecornerhouseproject our summers are super hot here we can get up to 110 heating index, that's what it feels like but it's usually a 101 or something. In the spring we have tornadoes but the past few years we haven't had that many I've lived in Oklahoma all my life since 1961 and I've never been in one although in 1999 we had a F5 which almost destroyed our business. And my ex-husband was on CNN News lol I should have asked them to take him with them when they left back then 😂 I got three Christmas items for next year and four different outfits. Really expensive lightweight summer sweaters, but I'll wear them in the spring and fall because it's already summer like here I think it's supposed to be 83 today although it doesn't feel like it. Oh I'm hot all the time but that's menopause I get so hot sometimes I want to kill dead things lol I cannot believe all that you two have accomplished it looks fabulous. And this is only the beginning.
ben there are ever ready batterys tho for old lights and orther stuff
All will be revealed. Actually, we found a couple of the old red Ever ready batteries too, not bad condition. I think they may have been flat though :-(
@@thecornerhouseproject well not charge it the old days tho
More good progress no stopping Dawn. All batteries are made up of cells. Each cell is about a volt so to get a 12v battery u connect twelve in series in the battery pack. Any update on the d2 u sprayed on the wall a few weeks ago. Make a few raised beds for that soil. Reily sleepers or scaffold boards. Now is the time to plant veg. I don’t know how u keep going power too u boyh
Hi Macus, thanks for joining us again.
Sadly we can't see how many of them made up the final size as it was all in pieces. We are guessing on a tractor battery / batteries.
The D2.... we haven't really looked BUT, I sprayed some yesterday on the building I was digging around and that has already turned the stone from green to it's natural colour. Also the over spray has made a clean line leaving the next stone 50/50 clean and dirty.
We think some of the soil will end up somewhere, but at the moment it is still on the floor.
We have to keep going or it just goes on and on and on and on lol.
Thanks again :-)
Great days work! Very impressed by the comfortable look of your giant yellow rake and mattock. Could I ask what make are they? Are they from the same company?
Thank you! ☺️ They’re great tools to have, especially the mattock. They are both Roughneck tools. We’ve got quite a few Roughneck tools now and each and everyone is very well made and sturdy to use. I sound like an advert but they are a very good tool brand. 😂
hi dawn ad ben
Hi Alan, how are you?
@@thecornerhouseproject im alive lol
My first thought was fuses. The old ones used to be made of a kind of white ceramic or something and and a small metal cap on the top.
No unfortunately not those 🙁 but we do have some of those ones that we have found and kept when clearing the house. I have a big box of little bits like that and all the old light fittings and switches. 😊
I have to say yous are some workers only I live a bit too far away I bring my mini digger and do a day's digging ... the metal thing you found is a finger for a mowing machine for cutting Hay... We had o old house and there was a path way around the outside made from stone about metre wide
Thank you! 🤩 ooh I found another one of those today as well! They’re quite arty looking bits aren’t they, for a piece of machinery!
That path was lovely to see appearing as the soil was shovelled away. I think a few stones may be missing so with all the stones that we have laying about I am sure we can sort some new ones. We’ve been resisting a mini digger because we wanted to do it ourselves …but wow it's been hard going the last couple of days! lol if we ever decide to rearrange things we will probably go for a digger then! lol
Would’ve been possible to have hired a small digger,? it would have saved some of that heavy back work
We did think about it, but we decided we’d rather do it ourselves in the end for various reasons. I do like a good look for old bits of farm machinery from the past, another reason is the land is soooo wet that it would just churn up all the grass area getting it done, so we’d have to wait until the warmer/drier weather arrived and we just wanted to get it done, a lot of the soil is covering mounds and mounds of stone and other bits and pieces and we just preferred the idea of tackling it bit by bit rather than having to sift through a load of scraped back soil and there’s nowhere that we want any leftover soil dumped because although we have an acre of land it’s mainly long and quite narrow in places and we already have 2 massive piles of Ivy and bramble cuttings taking up space. So yeah….lots of reasons why not. Maybe in the summer we might do something with a digger once we decide where drainage needs to be and if we should level some high spots here and there. We’re almost done with it now so to be fair it hasn’t taken that long.
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Welcome to the channel from Ireland! 😊
Please make sure you dispose of the old batteries safely the acids etc can be poisonous..I expect you know this but I'm a worrier born and bred.. doing a good job
We will but I would think they’ve been in the ground about 40 odd years so I’m not sure if they would have anything much left in them by now….but I don’t know to be honest. They are all sat in an old kettle we found at the moment. 😊
I know I am probably a bit dim but can’t find how to be a channel member 😢 😂❤
I gave this a heart Caroline as it is a good question, it also depends on what you are watching on.
The link below is to a Channel Members Only video, now I think if you click it to watch it, it will let you join and become a channel member. Give it a go and let me know please :-)
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Good luck and thank you :-)
@@thecornerhouseproject Gave it a try on my iPhone and iPad but no go will have to try on desktop when I get home(currently on a 2 week live in care) I’m sure we will manage one day 😂 Take care x
@@carolinerobinson8442I will have a look on my phone and see if I can find it. I know it is a pain in the arse.
Have fun with your Live in 🙂
Those little things look like wine bottles for the fairies... 😂
🤣 🤣 yes they do! I love your imagination! 🧚♂️🧚♀️🍷
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Warum hast du nicht eine Mini Bagger gebietet oder Radler?
Because now we have nearly finished. It has been nice doing it by hand as we have got to know the land better. Day by day we see the wet spots, the high spots and the low spots.
Thank you for watching and commenting :-)
Old fuses for the electric meter
It is a good guess but not right.... keep watching, but don't get too excited lol.
Thanks for guessing petcorrect :-)
I wonder if they are old fuses😊
Nope, unfortunately not but we did actually find some of the old fuses when clearing the house. Which were lovely to see!
Can you afford a mini excavator to help with earth moving?
We’ve chosen to not have one as the land is too wet really for machinery to be on and also we need to remove the soil carefully and we’d still have to barrow the soil at some point from wherever the digger dumps it. So in the long run theres no point really.
Battery for electric fence? For cattle
Ahhh yes it could have been couldn’t it? Thank you!😊
Почему вы не сжигаете мусор в бочке? Это безопасно.
Local laws don't allow burning.
К сожалению, в Ирландии больше нельзя сжигать вещи. Было бы здорово, если бы мы могли избавиться от двух огромных куч.
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Ooh they have been! We are just 8 away from the majestic 4000! ✨🌟🥳
Couldnt the farmer take all that crap away from the building for you?seems never ending
I suppose he might be able to but we haven't asked as it is our crap lol. We also like to save asking favours for when it is really important haha. It is never ending, but we will get on top of it all one day.
Thanks for watching and commenting :-)
and no new laptop
Oh no, that is terrible news. Are you sure you clicked the Buy Now button? hahaha
@@thecornerhouseproject yer i did lol was to be here monday but witch monday lol
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You’ve got an infestation of ivy.
We have indeed. The whole county of Leitrim does, there aren't many trees without ivy filling them.
Don’t you want to burn those roots?
We would love to, the only issue is that it is now illegal to burn garden, farm or household waste in Ireland.
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Why didn't you just hire a mini digger you could have done it in a hour
So many reasons Lloyd. Where do you put the huge pile that gets scraped back? Or how do you deal with the aftermath of all the churned up land which would be the access to the area to be scrapped.
We aren't in a rush to get it done, but taking our time enjoying what we are doing. We also have control of what goes where and can sift through as we rake and dig. Having a huge pile to go through and move doesn't fill us with joy.
Thanks for commenting.
U guys need a mini digger for a couple of days, stop killing yourselves.
We can’t have one on the land it is far too waterlogged and also we have nowhere to pull all the soil back to and we’d then still have to dig and barrow it away. We may as well dig and barrow where we are. We also don’t want to pull up the stones of the old farmyard.
Hi Cynthia, thank you for the pink hand wave tonight. We hope you are well :-)
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