Agreed. This whole channel has been...well... therapeutic! Such a treat.
@steamboatmodel
5 жыл бұрын
It would be if they knew what they were doing!
@worseto1
5 жыл бұрын
@@steamboatmodel we could say it is a learning experience
@jennylynn82173
5 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@kxd2591
5 жыл бұрын
@@steamboatmodel That's the point. Learning by doing is how everything starts.
@andysdroidbot
5 жыл бұрын
The biggest lie I tell myself lately : I'll just watch one episode of Townsend
@allthingsharbor
4 жыл бұрын
So....I am not the only one?! LoL
@Jane-z9y
4 жыл бұрын
Andy I tell myself the same lie. The next thing I know it its after midnight and I'm still watching videos.
@clintthompson4100
4 жыл бұрын
Same here it's addicting.
@ace-dj1dm
4 жыл бұрын
so you didn't watch any? tsk 😤
@raymondmartinez5114
2 жыл бұрын
Same here its very interesting and amazing!
@merpius
5 жыл бұрын
I love how it appears that you have two smaller guys and two big guys in this build and there is a clear and huge benefit to both. So often being small or being big is seen as a pure disadvantage, but this build definitely needed both types to succeed. Looks exhausting, but everyone must feel pretty accomplished to have made so much progress already.
@bluemoondiadochi
5 жыл бұрын
OMG it's really coming together, Jon's cabin AND Jon's dream of a historic homestead! And i know that now, when the first tengable object is about to be ready, that this is going to be a whole new level of incentive for everyone! I've been subbed for years and i remember this guy in his 18th century kitchen (read: remodeled garden shed) being so enthusiastic, and now this - all i can say, may your dream come true! All the best to you and lovely people supporting you! i'd help if i could, but i'm almost penniless and in Europe, so i can only wish you good luck!
@ellaisplotting
5 жыл бұрын
I love your enthusiasm! Did you mean 'tangible '?
@akabga
5 жыл бұрын
Pa, in the Little House Series (not the TV show, the actual books) made wooden pegs for the roof of their cabin.
@highwatercircutrider
4 жыл бұрын
Adam Karelius my job as a young Mennonite boy in a ‘post and beam’ barn framer’s family wast ya to carve da many sided little wooden pegs . Deere would later be driven through da post and beam joints at barn ‘frolics’ ( raisin’s ), in da spring and summer months as directed by my grandfather. Da pegs varied in size ( small and larger 1” ones) and had many tiny flat sides so they almost looked round. Da resulting ‘corners’ of da very dry pegs would dig into da round drilled holes and make very strong joints with out and bolts or big nails. I hated dat boy’s work’ , and my endless hours of hammering straight , coffee cans full of crooked nails used on the board sheeting of da walls and roofs. We waisted notting, when a barn burned it wast da job of da children to pick up all da nails to be straightened and saved for re use.
@derekgray4313
5 жыл бұрын
This is a great series! A few of my re-enactment friends have recently decided to build my son a log cabin playhouse. We are going to build it with all time period construction and tools. This has been a wealth of knowledge to watch and learn.
@absalomdraconis
5 жыл бұрын
Keep an eye on them in case they go a little nuts. Just because there _were_ such-and-such specialty axes just for task X, doen't mean they got a lot of sales ;)
@derekgray4313
5 жыл бұрын
We already have all the tools...lol. I’m a tool junky.
@57WillysCJ
5 жыл бұрын
My Swedish ancestors used birch bark and then laid sod on top. Very effective and lasts for years.
@no2party
5 жыл бұрын
This channel and Primative Technology are the most relaxing channels on KZitem.
@ghoulsarefree
4 жыл бұрын
Jon, I said it about the canoes, I'll say it again here - what a phenomenal series. I'd love to see these construction videos become the new 18th century cooking, and I'm so glad you've had the opportunity to pursue these projects and share them all with us.
@DavidMaurand
5 жыл бұрын
videography, music, editing - superb
@coasterbrookie
4 жыл бұрын
I got to this pretty late. but I have to exclaim that the journey is SO exciting!!! to each of the gentlemen and (little munchkin that was filmed in the early stages), my hat is bowed to you all. What an adventure!!!!!
@AmazinFireMan
5 жыл бұрын
A big thank you to you & your “crew”. If you decide to build another I would sure like to volunteer, not with help, I’m to old for that, but could handle the cookin.
@trekker146
5 жыл бұрын
Really starting to come together. What a beautiful cabin!
@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access
5 жыл бұрын
Just flexing on us sasquatches I don't even have a roof out here in my woods
@candidfoxmedia8292
5 жыл бұрын
Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access you need a vpn bro, keep you hidden
@msmltvcktl
5 жыл бұрын
I see you everywhere!
@bowlofsoup12
5 жыл бұрын
YOU ARE IN THE COMMENTS ON EVERY CHANNEL I WATCH. I CANT EVEN ESCAPE YOU HERE. STARTING TO THINK BIG FOOT IS HUNTING ME
@CraftQueenJr
5 жыл бұрын
Well, why haven’t you built one? You just saw how.
@whiskeymikefoxtrot6614
5 жыл бұрын
Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access brother, you watch Based videos...
@kenjett2434
5 жыл бұрын
This may be one of the best you tube series i have ever watched. I am so excited to see whats left as the cabin is completed. Thanks to all involved for keeping this so real into the time period. It shows just what it was like for my Ancestors who came to this country in 1662 from England. They settled near what was near old Leedstown VA.
@TueriNatura
5 жыл бұрын
This series is awesome! I'm looking forward to the part three and beyond.
@lesahanners5057
5 жыл бұрын
Another fantastic episode in the cabin building series Jon. Watching this build has really brought home to me just how much effort it took to make a home on the frontier. Many hands do make light work and it is a fine crew you've had to help you. I'm so glad you decided to do this and take us along on your journey. It has been a wonderful one full of fantastic discoveries. Thanks for the adventure, have a great day!
@shonitagarcia3222
5 жыл бұрын
Yay!!! I love your project experiments! I love watching how things come together. Great job guys! Thank you for sharing! :-)
@treerat6959
5 жыл бұрын
I love that you guys actually do the things that pioneers did back then only using tools and methods from way back then as well it shows the audience the real struggles it took to carve out an esistance way back then . Imagine the work involved just to meet your daily needs back then and then what it would take to clear land for pastures, have the extra trade items to purchase a cow the hay to get through winter your own needs to get through winter . Your Utube video's put this in perspective or at least make one imagine the struggles one faced.
@gabesmith8331
5 жыл бұрын
wow, living in those days was a real feat. Glad I live in 2019
@EileenMRyan
4 жыл бұрын
Gabe Smith holy smokes- right!
@drsch
5 жыл бұрын
A really outstanding project. I'm glad you have the opportunity to do this, and I hope it leads to other log cabins popping up all over.
@Ammo08
4 жыл бұрын
Way back in the 1960s I was working on a farm for a lady who came to our county in a covered wagon. One of her "barns" was actually logs running from one side of a ravine to the other....and covered with dirt. She told me her father built it sometime in the 1920s. It had cypress logs, what looked like layers of bark and then dirt...Miss Pearl must have been in her mid 90s back then. The barn was dark and musty, but afforded good shelter for her farm animals.
@trishrader102
5 жыл бұрын
I love watching your videos because it's a great reminder of how people can live simple if need be and still be just as happy. Great video and great job!
@professornuke7562
3 жыл бұрын
In Australia, we have a song called "The old Bark Hut", One verse goes The table's just a sheet of bark Gawd knows when it was cut It was blown down orf the rafters Of the old bark hut It's probably ripped off from old English music, and into American, Australian and New Zealand colonial traditions. When you look at their building methods, and say things like " I could build faster, and better", you need to include...."what did you eat? how long does hunting and farming take?"
@crazytomato4845
5 жыл бұрын
Just make sure your chimney flue has the right pitch to it, that's very important
@briankesterson4365
5 жыл бұрын
A fantastic job so far for a rough log cabin of the period! Thanks for sharing the build and I am still excited to see how it all comes together! Take care and well done!
@maxwellclark2188
4 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't a Ship building series be just pure gold? Most wholesome channel ever
@easttennesseeexpat7545
5 жыл бұрын
Concerning fire place and chimney: In North Carolina, there are still a few 19th century fireplace/chimneys standing. These were made from flat sandstone and mortared with the native sub-soil, which sets up as hard as soft cement. The ones I've seen used a flat steel bar to support stones at the top of the fireplace opening. Otherwise, all materials were dug out of the ground. I would not expect such a structure to stand for 150 years but they have.
@joey.advanced1
4 жыл бұрын
This channel is and always has been pure magic and love. You are the 4th Horseman of all Things Good .... Steve Irwin / Bob Ross / Mr. Rogers / John Townsend!
@louisshosty419
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for showing us history. You are doing an excellent job. Good luck with the chimney.
@RavensOfAstaru
5 жыл бұрын
So exciting!!! Cant wait till I have land to do some historical reinactment with. Lots of plans just have to work with the timeline. ❤❤❤ Love you all so much!!
@neilhall9544
5 жыл бұрын
This is fascinating to watch. Thank you so much for taking the time to document all the stages of construction.
@talith9147
5 жыл бұрын
I love the mad lad that's eating off of a knife
@billcounterstrike
5 жыл бұрын
I believe in one of the previous Townsends videos, John said that knives were used both for cutting and for eating with and forks back then were just used to hold down food that needed cutting. I don't remember the video where he discusses that so if anyone can post a response with the video title/link that'd be great!
@talith9147
5 жыл бұрын
@@billcounterstrike oh that's really cool
@BornIn1500
5 жыл бұрын
@@billcounterstrike I think it was much more safe to eat off a knife back then because knives were pretty much dull all the time, at least by today's standards.
@TylerMcCann-Barnes
5 жыл бұрын
Humanity and Conflicts just the thought of licking a sharp knife makes my skin crawl
@Pygar2
5 жыл бұрын
"I mix my peas with honey I've done it all my life It makes my peas taste funny But it keeps them on my knife!"
@Brainchild69
5 жыл бұрын
This channel is so educational and so informative, I'm very glad I found it.
@t-housetv7580
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I am very much enjoying this series.
@dkwroot
5 жыл бұрын
He really needs to cover the ridge of the roof to keep it from leaking. They could cut some of the remaining bark and then nail the smaller pieces over the ridge. Another possibility is cutting a long angled groove down the length of a thin log and then setting the log over the ridge and fastening it with ropes at the ends.
@yourturningpoint777
5 жыл бұрын
Will there be a part three? Would like to see the things you can do to the house once it’s built, the furniture, and tools you use or would need to maintain it.
@thizizliz
5 жыл бұрын
Really fantastic progress! It's cool to watch you guys work. I've been watching My Self Reliance but he resorted to power tools at times in order to get it closed up before winter. I'm looking forward to see how you finish the roof & make the chimney.
@StevenParente
5 жыл бұрын
Just incredible research, work and video production.
@HoyeGraphics
5 жыл бұрын
I simply cannot wait to see the full realization of this project!
@potassiumnitrate5817
5 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love this channel. So much interesting history! And best of luck on your cabin!
@kjracz15
3 жыл бұрын
I feel sleepy watching this not because it is boring, but because it is just so relaxing.
@janelleperry8136
4 жыл бұрын
Love love love your channel! So interesting and lively! Thank you!
@TheFLOMAN76
2 жыл бұрын
Who thumbs down a beautiful project like this!? Someone who thinks they can do it better. Psssh. Love this !!!!!
@IrkenExile
5 жыл бұрын
This is amazing, absolutely amazing! Such an incredible little cabin!
@Leelee...
5 жыл бұрын
This is amazing to watch... what hard work that was!
@thundercat8601
4 жыл бұрын
Love watching this project happen!
@Zaku186
5 жыл бұрын
This is very cool. but id love to see more details. like how the frame of the windows and doors went. and how did you get the saw inbetween the logs when you cut out the windows and doors.
@deadonetwothree
5 жыл бұрын
Great Question hope they answer
@lj3605
5 жыл бұрын
in a previous episode they mentioned they left a notch in order to get a smaller saw in to get the cut started
@Zaku186
5 жыл бұрын
@@lj3605 Oh ok i must have missed that. thanks man. i still wish they would make these episodes longer.
@yup9647
5 жыл бұрын
Too short, I want more! I could watch this all night!
@rickardnolan3019
4 жыл бұрын
Great video! I would have tried laying the bark horizontally starting at the bottom and overlapping for better rain run off and thought about using the overlap to hide holes I made in the bark for strapping it down with thin strips of leather.
@andreamussman6211
5 жыл бұрын
I'm curious what you will patch the roof gaps with to make it water tight? Fantastic project.
@cccpredarmy
4 жыл бұрын
In Russia we use birch bark as hydro insulation. The sheets are being placed overlapping each other for about 10cm. That way no water will ever pass through there. However the traditional roof is being made out of 1,5-2 layers of boards. The second layer (or half layer) closes the gap between the boards of the first layer. If you look up historical architecture you'll notice a "rule of thumb": the earlier you get in history the thicker the roof boards get. You could really tell that people back in the days had almost unlimited access to highest quality wood!
@finalthoughts7235
4 жыл бұрын
I do construction and remodeling. This is EXTREMELY tedious and time consuming. Love watching all the effort, and it's looking great.
@kittenkagome1
5 жыл бұрын
You did it! You have a structure! Congratulations!!!!
@Benjamin-uy9sj
5 жыл бұрын
So AWESOME!!!! Congrats on the roof going up guys!!! I can't wait to see how you do the chinking!
@star222333
5 жыл бұрын
Great job, you guy's worked hard! Thank you for making these video's. ❤️
@revtrev380
4 жыл бұрын
A note on nails. From what I understand most would have been used to strengthen any cut outs with frames. Doors and windows because the holes are such a strain on the walls. And also not used so the wood could flex without cracking apart.
@Robert-xp4ii
5 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised a layer of moss wasn't laid between every wall log to keep the weather out. I know this is just supposed to be the first cabin to live in while building the long term house but those gaps would let through every ounce of wind and rain and the freezing wind coming soon. That cabin is livable from late spring to early fall though.
@arnman2093
5 жыл бұрын
Looking good guys! You should be proud.
@georgeb9408
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, thank you very much!
@timhyatt9185
4 жыл бұрын
Tremendous project and it's really coming along. Would point out a couple things if you'd hear them.. Seems like the roofing needs to extend out further on the ends to create more of an overhang to help keep weather from infiltrating under the edge of the roof..... I've seen several videos where they bored holes through the central section of logs and inserted a carved wooden "pin"...a dowel. to help hold them in alignment, particularly on either side of the windows and doors. Really wish I lived closer to where you were doing this; would have loved to come lent a hand...
@camgood4884
5 жыл бұрын
funny coincidence, just the other day I was walking on a trail in the woods and a fallen branch with those exact Thorns stuck to my pants and I could not get the branch off of me for about 5 or 10 yards LOL. I was surprised that there could be thorns so long and strong on a tree like that. I actually rememeber vaguely thinking that they looked like nails, so it makes sense.. I swear, I literally cannot go one day without a major synchronicity popping out at me (especially very recently). Great video!!
@absalomdraconis
5 жыл бұрын
I once saw one that had poked through the sidewall of a tire. Never take those things lightly.
@justanotherbaptistjew5659
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely incredible.
@MinistryOfMagic_DoM
4 жыл бұрын
This show is freaking awesome
@shaunnmunn5823
5 жыл бұрын
Any plans to slow leaks in the roof? Pine tar and some kind of thickener, like fine wood shavings & sand ? Untanned hides? Do you plan to add improvements, as our ancestors did at first opportunity, such as riven shakes? Or is this meant to be an object lesson in itself, so folks can see what a real cabin first looked like? So far I've heard little from the distaff portion of your family. Milady may not like drips mixing with her dirt floor! Of course, many settlers built their cabins, THEN went east to fetch the family, or snag a wife. A tight roof makes Mama happy. And EVERYONE wants a happy Mama! ☺ Do you know if the squared logs of most of Indiana's surviving cabins are the result of cutting down massive logs from virgin forests into workable segments (quarters?). Or were they secondary improvements on earlier cabins, like yours? I often wondered if logs the size you used were as plentiful among the enormous trees of the past. Sure, there were glades, but not everyone gets the cleared land first off. Then, again, with enormous trees come enormous, workable branches - hmmmm. Rounded-log homes were common among the Scandinavian homelands, but so much of Indiana (and the Midwest) had forests that could yield a single home, and maybe more, with one solid tree. Surely such an effort would require more manpower. One of my Colonial progenitors had several hefty sons, all from Germany, and they took to their new Pennsylvania land like a house afire. They were spreading westward as soon as they mustered out of Washington's army. Of their known homes, the squared-log seemed a favorite. This was either due to them having no smaller wood, or they planned to clap them very soon after building (Germans LOVED improvements!). A cousin-many-times-removed tore two centuries of paint and plaster off part of his family home, finding a square log room in great shape. Our penny-pinching ancestors just kept adding to the single-room house. However it was done, it was clearly hard! Hope you had plenty of metheglin, ale, or other suitable refreshment! Best wishes on completion! Then -- on to the next adventure! Hope it includes a book about your father, and the great things he spawned!
@Lorriann63
5 жыл бұрын
This is so fascinating! I'm loving it to see how it would have been done in those days!
@Steeps1969
2 жыл бұрын
The holes will always leak in the roof. With your strips, as you are using, I think you'd be better off applying them horizontally, from the lowest point, up to the peak, so that rain runs off? All the nails are then overlapped by the next layer. Much like a slate roof was dine in the UK, around the 1900's ?
@karaamundson3964
Жыл бұрын
These guys (and Ivey) don't need to say a syllable to one another to raise a quite respectable dwelling. Respect.
@bjornsmasher66
4 жыл бұрын
the black locust nails are really cool.
@NanZingrone
5 жыл бұрын
Now I see why you didn't cut the openings to begin with. Figuring out how to cut out the door looked like a logical and relatively easy process compared to the rest. So interesting!
@ZoeKitten84
5 жыл бұрын
I like the video but some of the music overpowered Jon when he talked
@tammymann6292
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome project!
@MartinMMeiss-mj6li
4 жыл бұрын
The thorns you showed were not black locust (Robinia); they were probably honey locust (Gleditsia). Black locust thorns grow from the epidermis (the tree's "skin") and like rose thorns, they never branch and seldom are more than about 5/8 of an inch long. Honey locust thorns are modified twigs, and so can be multiply branched and can keep enlarging for many years.
@austin2842
5 жыл бұрын
This very interesting. Grest job fellas!
@totocologne7824
5 жыл бұрын
I always dreamt of building a cabin like this. Unfortunately, there are too many obstacles here. At least I am able to participate in your adventure by watching this. Awesome series ! Are you planning to insulate the roof against the cold in winter? If so, what are you planning to use. I think moss would be the best.
@volterradime
5 жыл бұрын
Amazing the soup brought it allll together
@deejayk5939
4 жыл бұрын
Truly amazing!
@cyruskhalvati
3 жыл бұрын
That sausage in the beginning looks awesome.
@davidbreazeale7257
5 жыл бұрын
I love your channel. watch it as soon as I see one come up. This house looks great. But I do have a question. If this was built some distance from a water source how would they deal with that? Dig a well maybe. and if so how would they do that and what equipment would be needed to do such a job? Thanks
@absalomdraconis
5 жыл бұрын
A mile or two wouldn't usually be considered that far, and as you mentioned wells, and sometimes maybe cisterns. It's also worth remembering that you'd occasionally find a usable spring (minor ones happen all over the place, I once even saw a spot where a trickle was flowing out of the asphalt).
@krb5292
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe a filler video on how you supported the logs when you cut out for the door an window? I was wondering how those were done; I remember the "Lincoln Logs" we had as a kid had short pieces that filled in those spaces.
@jamesdorpinghaus3294
4 жыл бұрын
Thr straightest tree that grows in the Texas Hill Country are bald cypress. I can't imagine how hard it must have been fir the first European settlers here to move that large of a tree.
@KonstantineMortis13
4 жыл бұрын
I used to trim trees for the power company, and when I saw those Black Locust thorns I visibly cringed. Many a scar from those buggers...
@paulseale8409
5 жыл бұрын
Lunch looks good!!
@KnowledgeNerd123
4 жыл бұрын
props to the guy rocking 18th century glasses. thats commitment.
@Rs-zt9qw
4 жыл бұрын
this is an awesome channel! 👏
@joedurovey4988
5 жыл бұрын
You sure bark was their choice. Wood shingles were used the easy to make and easy to put on.
@macmcatee611
5 жыл бұрын
I can do nothing but admire your work. I am of the opinion that you should have cut your poplar bark into 3-4 ft. long pieces and applied them like shingles. Put one layer down with edges butted up against each other, then another layer down straddling the seams between the lower layer. I think what you have done is going to leak a lot. Those narrow strips over the joints you are putting on won't do at all in keeping the water from running sideways and into the cabin. Once water finds a channel to drop off those long runs of bark into the cabin it's going to be a flood. There is a town in the North Carolina mountains that was a resort area in the early 1900's there are a good number of houses that were built back then that the entire outside of the houses are covered with chestnut bark. As you know the chestnut trees are pretty much gone now and the people that own these houses are having trouble getting them repaired. I think they are trying poplar bark as a substitute for chestnut but it doesn't have the rot resistance that chestnut does.
@FlySwann
3 жыл бұрын
Bark is cool, but I'd keep it only till I could split some pine or cedar shakes.
@christinamata3405
5 жыл бұрын
I'm curious about injuries on the job. It makes me so nervous that nobody uses any safety equipment. I know it's not period-appropiate, but I'm worried about stuff flying into their eyes or them falling off the roof. I can't even imagine the amount of splinters from not wearing gloves. Ugh. I can't wait to see the garden and animals when everything is done.
@katanatac
5 жыл бұрын
Wish I was there to help out, great video!
@MartinMMeiss-mj6li
4 жыл бұрын
Thinking that oak would make stiffer purlins than tulip poplar is a misconception. Tulip is the stiffer wood and is much lighter, and so less likely to sag under its own weight. It's not as strong as oak for a given diameter, but it's plenty strong for that application. Consider this: oak is such a flexible would that it can be bent for curvy furniture.
@tinovanderzwanphonocave544
5 жыл бұрын
maybe not historical but practical I have in my younger healthier times did stuff like this at first going the historical route by making the cabin and laying the shingles of bark(from long dried march bark) and it was a leak-fest! I found by hunting I could temporarily fix all of the leaks by using bad animal skins and entrail parts! next year we re-did the whole roof with self-made clay roof tiles I did not check but it could be still standing?...
@MrHowieZ1973
5 жыл бұрын
That club and hatchet method for cutting notches works good or better than I thought it would.
@jowens799
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome can I move in now
@veronder
5 жыл бұрын
id love to purchase fort Carrol in Baltimore and build a cabin like this on it but its a bird sanctuary that cant really be developed.
@moejaime2654
4 жыл бұрын
I think those big fellows are there for the 18th century food !! lol !
@jenskreibach5908
5 жыл бұрын
Interesting project, thanks for sharing. I like watching it. What do you do intend to do with the horizontal gaps between the logs? Stuff them with moss?
@mclare9817
5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic vid as always!.....Didnt you have Planning Permission for a garage?😃😃😃
@TheStampede000
5 жыл бұрын
I suggest a mixture of clay and moss or clay and straw to fill the gaps for insulation
@RobertSmith-ft9qz
3 жыл бұрын
Looks like it would require a lot of chinking to fill the large gaps between the wall logs. A lot more detail work on the fitting of the logs would have minimized that.
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