Couple of ideas, 1. Make the stump into a seat. (You need one!) 2. Buy some ready to use mixed lime mortar and have it handy (comes in buckets with lids, you use what you need and put the lid back on for next time) and when you find stone build up the walls (saves you moving the stone). Otherwise great stuff, it is fun to watch and interesting.
Seat is a good idea and probably something I can manage with my chainsaw. and you're right about the stone I'm a bit disorganised with it, but it's easier to focus on one thing at a time and I don't usually have time in the day to do some wall building as well as other things.
@@afontirs I didn't mean at the same time as I understand your focus. As and when you have a pile of stone to move might be easier to just build up the wall. Really am enjoying the progress, thanks.
Don't pay to get rid of the soil. When you are finished and while you are working decide where can use a lift and just spread it out over the ground in a lift. You'd be surprised how much earth can disappear into a 4 inch lift when re-leveling the ground.
I think your little garden path is actually a stone lined swale to guide water away from the house. It would head towards the front steps and then down the sidewalk. My guess is the two structures had roofs pitched perpendicular to that spot and got excessive rain accumulating there.
I hadn't thought about that. It would definitely get boggy in that spot without adequate drainage. but it would have make the entrance steps a small stream about 50% of the year given the amount of rain here!
You could “rocket stove” the stump. Drill in from the top to meet a channel drilled in from the side at the base. Pour in something flammable & ignite 🔥. I’ve seen it work very effectively for removing huge stumps 👍🏻. Great to see the progress btw.
Thanks. Yes I've been looking into this, because I've got another stump to burn which is smaller so I'm going to experiment with it and see how I get on.
You might try burning the stump out. Much less destructive than trying to physically remove it. And as for the pile of dirt, there might be someone looking for some fill material. If the mound is big enough, it would be worth his while to come get it.
Make some raised garden beds and use some of that brush & logs at the bottom, hugelculture style. Then top up the beds with the sieved dirt. Put an old wire mattress base over the top of the bed and sieve straight into the garden bed. Much cheaper than getting a skip. And use the stump as a table. Love your videos, looking forward to what you uncover! 😊
You could build a sifting screen for your dirt to get out all the big material and then spread the dirt evenly over your yard and reseed grass. Might be a good opportunity to fill any low spots you may have and it would probably be good to mix in some sand
I've done bits of that, but there's a lot of stone and rubble too and the soil even when sieved is full of bits of small waste, but I will do some more over time.
Never get rid of extra soil, rather keep it for future use! And some other people suggested burning the stumps rocket stove style. That's actually good advice, as it's fasr and effective
Recently I randomly watched a short video on stump removal using fire. They drilled a circular hole vertically in the centre and then a horizontal hole from a side to meet the vertical one. Then flammable liquid followed by a rag plug in the vertical hole and lit it. It seemed to do a really good job. Light on details here, do an online search and see what you can find. Good luck and be safe around fire.
I have four acres and I don't burn tree prunings and such anymore. I pile it up in a narrow line of woods between my neighbor and I. It will take many years for all the wood to decay and in the meantime, the carbon is sequestered out of the atmosphere. If you burn it, you will be dumping the carbon into the atmosphere in mere minutes. Besides if it is left to decay, it will provide shelter and food for all sorts of creatures and organisms for years to come and some portion of it will remain as organic material in the soli long after the wood is gone. So if you have an out of the way place where you can put it, just put there and pay it no mind.
We kept a pile like that. It does take awhile to decay, depends on how much you have to keep adding. But for a 3/4 acre piece of land, covered in trees, we never had the pile get too big. It always decayed fast enough to stay manageable
I would love to do that, but the site is only around 0.2 acres, it's very small, so there's no space to keep that amount of brush long term. I should get it chipped or recycled properly so it has another use though.
How fun is it that you discovered an intersection of walls that can take you in many different directions. With every question that gets answered, the door to the next mystery swings open wide. After building a house on a piece of land that housed a huge natual gas pumping station in the early part of the 1900's, we had piles of rocks, broken cement, dirt and debris. I would not remove your piles until you have a idea of how you will use your findings. We had so much dirt brought in to level and fill low spots. Five years later, we are still working on it! I dont know where the term "dirt cheap" came from, coming or going, dirt is not cheap! 😅 Thanks again for bringing us along!
I had a stump that I made into a table. Peel the bark off, level the top off, and let it dry out a little, then clear varnish it with a marine varnish for boats all the way to the soil line. That way it will handle the weather better. Then just find a chair or two. In your case you could rebuild that wall as some of the seating.❤️🐝🤗
I said this before but, I would contact the nearest university that has an Archeology dept. and ask if they would be interested in helping you dig. It would be great field work practice and you might be surprised at what could be found while excavating
Before you know it, they will call a halt to any further works, they'll lay claim to the ruins and surrounding areas. How AT and family live will be regulated to limit impact on the site. Oh, and the pizza oven will have to go.
From Deb… been watching since the beginning and thought by now you’d have run out of anything more to find! That site is the gift that keeps on giving…..or is it a curse? Positively, it sure is keeping you physically fit!
As for the spoil, you have a lot of rock and dirt. Maybe choose a place to build an elevated platform that may make a good place to have a better view, or just to make a level area where there is some elevation change now. You can place the rocks around the edges and up the sides to help keep it in place while it settles. It would be far better than paying to dispose of it. The soil looks quite nice. You could screen some of it to recover nice topsoil to add to garden or flower beds near the house.
I love the idea of a wooden sculpture. Maybe a (solar) clock, like you're uncovering what was buried and forgotten long ago, and turning time back? This idea can be combined with any other.
I’d remove that stump. I’d want to see only the old stone walls and floors. I’d happily live among them with benches and pots of flowers. Stump doesn’t belong. Happy digging!
Afon, you need to check with early architevture designs, you will discover that almost all structural builds come with a sloped mashup of flat stones toserve as an apron that wraps around the house. This functions as a flow away path to prevent damp and moisture coming into the walls of the building structure. On rainy days the water fliws away from the house and when there is snow falling off the roif, it is easier to brush away from the house
I am too old anymore to have adventures like this - thank you for sharing yours with me. Terrific backyard archaeological excavation and very professionally done. The location of your spoils - the piles of dirt that you dig up - is always a problem. It almost always seems that no matter where you initially decide to put them, it is later determined to be less than ideal. I suggest that you try to identify some place where you might want to build a terrace or a pyramid or whatever and start a new spoils heap there (I like the idea of a pyramid). It is also a good idea to engage students to help you with your excavations - they will usually work for free and move large amounts for dirt willingly. Looking forward to future videos - great job! P.S. I like your new cinematographer and commentator.
Yes I've moved the piles of stone I've compiled several times because I need it for rebuilding but it suddenly gets in the way of something. It's frustrating but as you say there's often no good place for it so it's necessarily that easy to avoid. Thank you I will feed this back to the cinematographer!
So enjoy these adventures in excavation! Also impressed how your subs have grown so since I first caught your vid in my feed. Looking forward to the next installment! From Nashville Tennessee US 🙏🏻xx
I like @guytypeperson suggestion for a toad seat. I see a galapagos tortiose shape which would also lend itself nicely as a seat. Head to the right side ... I cant not see it now. Even the roots seem like the legs already.
With the extreme rainfall this year in NW Europe I witness how quick nature is able to take over whatever man builds… Youcan almost see the weeds creeping and growing. Sometimes I look at it and am reminded of your ‘pyramid’ video’s.
As far as your sculpture for the stump.. something from The Wind and the Willows carved out of it would be a great piece to add some lore to your olden times builds.
It can be quite useful to have an awkward stump like that cut off to make a level horizontal surface. I use them for seats, a coffee table (I'm old so its good to sit and rest often with a cuppa beside me), or somewhere to put tools while working or "treasures" found. Or it can make a pedestal for a sculpture or pot-plant. Eventually it will rot away (or maybe re-sprout) but while its there it may as well be useful and look tidy and/or good.
Love your videos! Couple of things: depending on it's position relative to the houses, the tree stump might make a good base for a table, and don't throw away the slate! I'd be happy to take it for Mosaics!
Thanks for the update Afon, great progress and it's looking good, personally I think the tree stump should go as most of the chainsaw sculptures I've seen have been pretty naff and also it's a bit stumpy so you'd probably have to go for a turtle or something😅 I suppose you could always carve it into a seat? It never ceases to amaze me just how much soil you produce when digging anything out, getting rid of it is such a problem and skips are ridiculously expensive, you need to find someone who wants to get rid of a garden pond. Just a thought.
Yes that's what I thought when looking at some chainsaw sculptor websites, a lot of them do seem naff, and like you say I should have left it a little higher to allow more scope for different designs if I was going to do that. Having said that I have been emailed by a guy who does it in North Wales and his portfolio does genuinely look good, but I'll see. but a seat is an option.
Great that you can tell the relative age difference by the walls being built up against older walls - Time Team style! I would recommend to build your additions in another material like brick so you can tell what is original.
I greatly enjoy watching the work you do with this property, kind of like ASMR. And I hope you'll allow a suggestion for the pieces of slate you've found. Would you consider donating them to a school for the kids to paint? I don't think there's a school that would turn down a donation, or maybe offer them to a crafter/painter. If you think its worth the effort, I hope you can find a new home for some old slate.
That path towards the wall, may just be the way people kept the exterior walls protected from (usually water infiltration) I have seen that kind of "sidewalk" in houses when I was growing up in Southern Brazil, a long time ago. These side walks were usually around the entire outside perimeter. My $0.05😊
grind the stump. a sculpture will rot within a year. I tried it with the stump of a 200 year old oak tree into a throne. the thing was falling apart after one winter.
Unfortunately for the art world, removing the stump is the most practical solution and will remove the distraction of preservation (which is a challenge that I have faced in clearing debris). The main benefit will be that you'll have a much better idea of how that wall runs AND it'll be easier to restore that part of the wall.
fair point, and ash will rot quicker than oak I expect. it also had ash die back according to the tree surgeon so wasn't all that healthy. but I might sculpt it just accepting that it won't last.
I have an idea for those tree parts in the background. Trade them to someone who turns bowls for a nice finished wooden one. that wood won't be ready for a few years to make into bowls.
I do that for the better quality soil already, but a lot of the stuff closest to the walls is just pure rubble and even when sieved is a bit of an eyesore if you spread it around, but here and there I do it.
@@afontirs I see, just trying to save you some costs, that's a lot of material you have moved. You make me tired just watching the videos. thanks again for sharing this.
Just use the stump as the base for a cpl campfires nights. It will take a bit. It will go quicker if you slice a cpl lines with a chainsaw. Deep drill holes help, as well. Then just pile the scraps on top and circle the chairs around. Enjoy
A sculpture would be so friggen cool, if you can pick the right one and make sure that it can withstand the weather and the test of time. It's quite a big stump to work with. Unless it's blocking some sort of path or space that you would like to put to better use.
If and when you find the privies for these cottages, you will find loads of bottles, china, clay pipes, etc. I dug out the former privy in the basement of my 1870s Salem house and found a log of cool things. One man's trash...
Just as academic interest, how does "Afon Tirs" translate? I put it into Google Translate, and it gives me "Tirs River" which doesn't appear to exist. I also noted in the search results a place called "Ty'r Afon" "House of the River" . . .
It does not translate, 'Tirs' is made up word, so that's why. Tir, no s, means land, afon means river. I intended when I first set up the channel to do more treasure hunting in rivers, diving etc, and then some work on my land. I added the S because I thought it sounded better. so less romantic I'm afraid, House of the River is a nice name!
I see that tree stump as a giant Finnish stove ! I would bring some friends and booze and just wait to see for how long it burns. After 2 hours, you can put a grill on it and make some bbq.
First, cut branches in 12" lengths, the smaller the faster they dry. Stack and cover the top with the tin scrap. Second, dry stack a ring 2Ft high around the second stump leaving air holes equidistant around the perimeter at the base, let stump dry with chainsaw scores in the bark for a year then burn the stump in place if rain comes use tin over stump. Cut the first stump flat and put a treated wood tabletop on it for drinks get someone to carve the stump into a caricature with big ears. the tabletop for a hat.
Hey there I’m just letting you know that I’m the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee we have some legendary chainsaw sculptures craftsman. Check them out if you decide to go that route.
Don’t burn that wood! Looks like ash. Slice and chop it on to firewood and store it well. Holzhausen pile for the wood - look it up. Germans and Slavic and Swedish and Norwegian dry and store their wood in cool ways that are real sculptural and cool and simple.
I think you would have to pay thousands for someone to carve that stump into something, the seat idea, that others said would be good. I watched a video of a guy digging out a big stump by hand, it's doable. The guy that dug his out said he didn't like the stump grinder because you still have all the roots going every which way, and he wanted all the roots out too. If you just make it level you could put something on it, like a potted plant or something.
Drill holes in the centre of the tree Then make a fire you will have to do it a lot of times And you can use it as a fire pit When you burn it down you can dig up the roots You will have to be near it when it is burning And all the trimmings of the other trees you can bury in the fire pit 😮😮
Couple of ideas, 1. Make the stump into a seat. (You need one!) 2. Buy some ready to use mixed lime mortar and have it handy (comes in buckets with lids, you use what you need and put the lid back on for next time) and when you find stone build up the walls (saves you moving the stone). Otherwise great stuff, it is fun to watch and interesting.
I like the seat idea!
Was going to suggest a seat too
Seat is a good idea and probably something I can manage with my chainsaw. and you're right about the stone I'm a bit disorganised with it, but it's easier to focus on one thing at a time and I don't usually have time in the day to do some wall building as well as other things.
@@afontirs I didn't mean at the same time as I understand your focus. As and when you have a pile of stone to move might be easier to just build up the wall. Really am enjoying the progress, thanks.
Don't pay to get rid of the soil. When you are finished and while you are working decide where can use a lift and just spread it out over the ground in a lift. You'd be surprised how much earth can disappear into a 4 inch lift when re-leveling the ground.
i agree,and all that slate can be used as a shed roof or something.
I think your little garden path is actually a stone lined swale to guide water away from the house. It would head towards the front steps and then down the sidewalk. My guess is the two structures had roofs pitched perpendicular to that spot and got excessive rain accumulating there.
This is the most plausible explanation!
I was thinking the same thing!
I hadn't thought about that. It would definitely get boggy in that spot without adequate drainage. but it would have make the entrance steps a small stream about 50% of the year given the amount of rain here!
You could “rocket stove” the stump. Drill in from the top to meet a channel drilled in from the side at the base. Pour in something flammable & ignite 🔥. I’ve seen it work very effectively for removing huge stumps 👍🏻. Great to see the progress btw.
Agreed. Use a blower to speed up the process (even a simple hairdryer would work)
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Thanks. Yes I've been looking into this, because I've got another stump to burn which is smaller so I'm going to experiment with it and see how I get on.
You might try burning the stump out. Much less destructive than trying to physically remove it. And as for the pile of dirt, there might be someone looking for some fill material. If the mound is big enough, it would be worth his while to come get it.
Make some raised garden beds and use some of that brush & logs at the bottom, hugelculture style. Then top up the beds with the sieved dirt. Put an old wire mattress base over the top of the bed and sieve straight into the garden bed. Much cheaper than getting a skip. And use the stump as a table. Love your videos, looking forward to what you uncover! 😊
That 'path' may have been for fire wood storage. The stump can be a wishing well planter.
You could build a sifting screen for your dirt to get out all the big material and then spread the dirt evenly over your yard and reseed grass. Might be a good opportunity to fill any low spots you may have and it would probably be good to mix in some sand
I've done bits of that, but there's a lot of stone and rubble too and the soil even when sieved is full of bits of small waste, but I will do some more over time.
My Dad hollowed out the middle of the stump (with chainsaw), Mum filled it with potting mix - voila! Planter for flowers.
Thank you for continuing this project! I remember that you really didn’t intend this to become what it has but I really enjoy watching you! 😊
Thank you, plenty more to come!
@@afontirs awesome, keep them coming!
You could flatten the top of the stump and screw down a tabletop to sit at while you're out there having a drink or eating.
Definitely a possibility, and one that's quite easy and quick to achieve!
Never get rid of extra soil, rather keep it for future use! And some other people suggested burning the stumps rocket stove style. That's actually good advice, as it's fasr and effective
Recently I randomly watched a short video on stump removal using fire. They drilled a circular hole vertically in the centre and then a horizontal hole from a side to meet the vertical one. Then flammable liquid followed by a rag plug in the vertical hole and lit it. It seemed to do a really good job. Light on details here, do an online search and see what you can find. Good luck and be safe around fire.
I have four acres and I don't burn tree prunings and such anymore. I pile it up in a narrow line of woods between my neighbor and I. It will take many years for all the wood to decay and in the meantime, the carbon is sequestered out of the atmosphere. If you burn it, you will be dumping the carbon into the atmosphere in mere minutes. Besides if it is left to decay, it will provide shelter and food for all sorts of creatures and organisms for years to come and some portion of it will remain as organic material in the soli long after the wood is gone. So if you have an out of the way place where you can put it, just put there and pay it no mind.
We kept a pile like that. It does take awhile to decay, depends on how much you have to keep adding. But for a 3/4 acre piece of land, covered in trees, we never had the pile get too big. It always decayed fast enough to stay manageable
I would love to do that, but the site is only around 0.2 acres, it's very small, so there's no space to keep that amount of brush long term. I should get it chipped or recycled properly so it has another use though.
and such piles of tree prunings are awesome places for hedgehogs to hybernate in all safety!!
@@afontirs Bonfires are amazing, especially in the autumn. OP is rambling on like a looney.
LOVE THIS STUFF. KEEP ON DIGGIN'!
How fun is it that you discovered an intersection of walls that can take you in many different directions. With every question that gets answered, the door to the next mystery swings open wide. After building a house on a piece of land that housed a huge natual gas pumping station in the early part of the 1900's, we had piles of rocks, broken cement, dirt and debris. I would not remove your piles until you have a idea of how you will use your findings. We had so much dirt brought in to level and fill low spots. Five years later, we are still working on it! I dont know where the term "dirt cheap" came from, coming or going, dirt is not cheap! 😅 Thanks again for bringing us along!
Good point, maybe I'll hang on for the pile a while longer! :)
Get to digging! I need to know what you find next lol
I had a stump that I made into a table. Peel the bark off, level the top off, and let it dry out a little, then clear varnish it with a marine varnish for boats all the way to the soil line. That way it will handle the weather better. Then just find a chair or two. In your case you could rebuild that wall as some of the seating.❤️🐝🤗
Yes I could have a stone bench on one side and chairs around it! thanks.
@@afontirs You’re welcome❤️🤗🐝
If you have the stump there for a while, burn a checker board onto the top and enjoy playing while you have it!
I said this before but, I would contact the nearest university that has an Archeology dept. and ask if they would be interested in helping you dig. It would be great field work practice and you might be surprised at what could be found while excavating
I wouldn't. Once you do, your yard doesn't belong to you anymore
Before you know it, they will call a halt to any further works, they'll lay claim to the ruins and surrounding areas. How AT and family live will be regulated to limit impact on the site. Oh, and the pizza oven will have to go.
From Deb… been watching since the beginning and thought by now you’d have run out of anything more to find! That site is the gift that keeps on giving…..or is it a curse? Positively, it sure is keeping you physically fit!
As for the spoil, you have a lot of rock and dirt. Maybe choose a place to build an elevated platform that may make a good place to have a better view, or just to make a level area where there is some elevation change now. You can place the rocks around the edges and up the sides to help keep it in place while it settles. It would be far better than paying to dispose of it. The soil looks quite nice. You could screen some of it to recover nice topsoil to add to garden or flower beds near the house.
it looks like the stump would make a great chair. It almost has built in arms...
I love the idea of a wooden sculpture. Maybe a (solar) clock, like you're uncovering what was buried and forgotten long ago, and turning time back? This idea can be combined with any other.
I’d remove that stump. I’d want to see only the old stone walls and floors. I’d happily live among them with benches and pots of flowers. Stump doesn’t belong. Happy digging!
Level off the top of the stump and put a giant planter on top of it.
Afon, you need to check with early architevture designs, you will discover that almost all structural builds come with a sloped mashup of flat stones toserve as an apron that wraps around the house. This functions as a flow away path to prevent damp and moisture coming into the walls of the building structure. On rainy days the water fliws away from the house and when there is snow falling off the roif, it is easier to brush away from the house
Thanks, yes another comment mentioned it would be a drain away of some time from rain coming off the roofs and that does make sense.
I am too old anymore to have adventures like this - thank you for sharing yours with me. Terrific backyard archaeological excavation and very professionally done. The location of your spoils - the piles of dirt that you dig up - is always a problem. It almost always seems that no matter where you initially decide to put them, it is later determined to be less than ideal. I suggest that you try to identify some place where you might want to build a terrace or a pyramid or whatever and start a new spoils heap there (I like the idea of a pyramid). It is also a good idea to engage students to help you with your excavations - they will usually work for free and move large amounts for dirt willingly. Looking forward to future videos - great job!
P.S. I like your new cinematographer and commentator.
Yes I've moved the piles of stone I've compiled several times because I need it for rebuilding but it suddenly gets in the way of something. It's frustrating but as you say there's often no good place for it so it's necessarily that easy to avoid.
Thank you I will feed this back to the cinematographer!
I have to say that if you burn that pile you may want to notify the fire brigade first !
Another great video from you, thanks and keep them coming soon.
So enjoy these adventures in excavation! Also impressed how your subs have grown so since I first caught your vid in my feed. Looking forward to the next installment! From Nashville Tennessee US 🙏🏻xx
I like @guytypeperson suggestion for a toad seat. I see a galapagos tortiose shape which would also lend itself nicely as a seat. Head to the right side ... I cant not see it now. Even the roots seem like the legs already.
Stump could be a lovely little table. Work table or just a table. 🙂
With the extreme rainfall this year in NW Europe I witness how quick nature is able to take over whatever man builds… Youcan almost see the weeds creeping and growing. Sometimes I look at it and am reminded of your ‘pyramid’ video’s.
I wish you had a huge (think comically large) sieve to separate the soil from the stones, slate, and other detritus. So satisfying lol
As far as your sculpture for the stump.. something from The Wind and the Willows carved out of it would be a great piece to add some lore to your olden times builds.
Since you have brush to burn, it might be possible to burn the stump. The Swedish torch stump method is very effective.
It can be quite useful to have an awkward stump like that cut off to make a level horizontal surface. I use them for seats, a coffee table (I'm old so its good to sit and rest often with a cuppa beside me), or somewhere to put tools while working or "treasures" found. Or it can make a pedestal for a sculpture or pot-plant. Eventually it will rot away (or maybe re-sprout) but while its there it may as well be useful and look tidy and/or good.
You have this sussed with good common sense, you put a lot of thought into the smallest detail, interesting stuff. Thank you for update.
Hands down this is one of the greatest things to just pop up in my feed and I think I stumbled onto it when your subscribers measured in the hundreds.
Fascinating. Love these videos.
You have dome a great deal of work there. Interesting finds. Greetings from Edmonton Canada
If you drill a big hole down into the stump and some smaller hole into the centre low down you can burn that stump to nothing
Fascinating
Just awesome. Good on you. Make a seat/ Thrown for the Garden.
Love your videos! Couple of things: depending on it's position relative to the houses, the tree stump might make a good base for a table, and don't throw away the slate! I'd be happy to take it for Mosaics!
This is amazing. Nice to see the continued progress
Looks like there's a lifetime's work there for you 😎
Thanks for the update Afon, great progress and it's looking good, personally I think the tree stump should go as most of the chainsaw sculptures I've seen have been pretty naff and also it's a bit stumpy so you'd probably have to go for a turtle or something😅 I suppose you could always carve it into a seat? It never ceases to amaze me just how much soil you produce when digging anything out, getting rid of it is such a problem and skips are ridiculously expensive, you need to find someone who wants to get rid of a garden pond. Just a thought.
Yes that's what I thought when looking at some chainsaw sculptor websites, a lot of them do seem naff, and like you say I should have left it a little higher to allow more scope for different designs if I was going to do that. Having said that I have been emailed by a guy who does it in North Wales and his portfolio does genuinely look good, but I'll see. but a seat is an option.
If you hollow out the stump a bit and throw soil in and then plant flowers. Would be pretty.
Great that you can tell the relative age difference by the walls being built up against older walls - Time Team style! I would recommend to build your additions in another material like brick so you can tell what is original.
I greatly enjoy watching the work you do with this property, kind of like ASMR. And I hope you'll allow a suggestion for the pieces of slate you've found. Would you consider donating them to a school for the kids to paint? I don't think there's a school that would turn down a donation, or maybe offer them to a crafter/painter.
If you think its worth the effort, I hope you can find a new home for some old slate.
Sift the dirt and separate things you can use. Burn the stump.
Fascinating 🙂👍
Well done, keep at it.
Stump burning barrel and a utility trailer. I think if you invest in those you might save a few headaches and possibly money in the long run
SImon O'Rourke is awsome!
The stump made into a chair/throne would be interesting.
One idea is to level cut the stump to the ground & hollow out the center & plant flowers. Think of an organic flower pot.
I like that idea! One of the possibilites.
Have you thought about metal detecting the spoil and the area you are going to dig you could use a pinpointer they are quite cheap to buy
👍🏻👍🏻Very cool! ✌🏻💞😊
You may speed your excavation up by using a power washer to remove more dirt from your canvases and spaces.
Personal opinion blow torch aka Flamethrower = good stump remover
That path towards the wall, may just be the way people kept the exterior walls protected from (usually water infiltration) I have seen that kind of "sidewalk" in houses when I was growing up in Southern Brazil, a long time ago. These side walks were usually around the entire outside perimeter.
My $0.05😊
I think you are right, I was mistaken.
if there is room for it you could level the stump .. maybe remove bark and put a table top surface on it
grind the stump. a sculpture will rot within a year. I tried it with the stump of a 200 year old oak tree into a throne. the thing was falling apart after one winter.
Unfortunately for the art world, removing the stump is the most practical solution and will remove the distraction of preservation (which is a challenge that I have faced in clearing debris). The main benefit will be that you'll have a much better idea of how that wall runs AND it'll be easier to restore that part of the wall.
fair point, and ash will rot quicker than oak I expect. it also had ash die back according to the tree surgeon so wasn't all that healthy. but I might sculpt it just accepting that it won't last.
@@afontirs that could be fun!
Lime Mortar from TY MAWR, just down the road!!!
I have an idea for those tree parts in the background. Trade them to someone who turns bowls for a nice finished wooden one. that wood won't be ready for a few years to make into bowls.
You could make table and stools out of the tree parts. Looks like it's good wood! 👍✌️👋 🕊❤️🕊
I know it's more work but as you take out spoil pull the stones etc out and seive the earth, you can spread the soil on your lawn then.
I do that for the better quality soil already, but a lot of the stuff closest to the walls is just pure rubble and even when sieved is a bit of an eyesore if you spread it around, but here and there I do it.
@@afontirs I see, just trying to save you some costs, that's a lot of material you have moved. You make me tired just watching the videos. thanks again for sharing this.
Save the larger slates
Why dont you sift the dirt away from the rocks? These rocks have most likely been there since the buildings' constructions?
You could cut the stump flat, then build a table top on it, somewhere to sit around and eat your pizza.
I don't recall if you have tried metal detecting around the house but you should give it a try.
Go to your local town hall and see what building was on the property… sometimes they have pictures too.
Maybe you can make a wall or gabion somewhere with the spoil pile stones and other left over stones?
yes that's a good idea, the lower quality stones would be fine for a gabion.
Just use the stump as the base for a cpl campfires nights. It will take a bit. It will go quicker if you slice a cpl lines with a chainsaw. Deep drill holes help, as well. Then just pile the scraps on top and circle the chairs around. Enjoy
A sculpture would be so friggen cool, if you can pick the right one and make sure that it can withstand the weather and the test of time. It's quite a big stump to work with. Unless it's blocking some sort of path or space that you would like to put to better use.
Your top soil your have to get rid of you can put an add on gumtree and do a free to collect?
Sculpture yes! Self-portrait?
I remember from, previous videos, you work your ass off!
'Bonide Stump Out if it's available in your area. Takes a little while (4-6 weeks) but will save a ton of work. Will burn out easily afterwards.
If and when you find the privies for these cottages, you will find loads of bottles, china, clay pipes, etc. I dug out the former privy in the basement of my 1870s Salem house and found a log of cool things. One man's trash...
Just as academic interest, how does "Afon Tirs" translate?
I put it into Google Translate, and it gives me "Tirs River" which doesn't appear to exist.
I also noted in the search results a place called "Ty'r Afon" "House of the River" . . .
It does not translate, 'Tirs' is made up word, so that's why. Tir, no s, means land, afon means river. I intended when I first set up the channel to do more treasure hunting in rivers, diving etc, and then some work on my land. I added the S because I thought it sounded better. so less romantic I'm afraid, House of the River is a nice name!
I see that tree stump as a giant Finnish stove ! I would bring some friends and booze and just wait to see for how long it burns. After 2 hours, you can put a grill on it and make some bbq.
I vote for the stump becoming a tortoise sculpture. It looks like a good shape for it.
I thought the same!
It's looking like an archaeological site and if you live in the UK I think you should turn it in. We all need to know more about our ancestry.
Please take the bonfire apart/move it to check for wildlife especially Hedgehogs. That may have taken up residence since you piled it up. 😊
will do!
@@afontirs excellent, there is nothing better than a good bonfire. But the hedgehogs etc are in decline as you no doubt know. 😟
First, cut branches in 12" lengths, the smaller the faster they dry. Stack and cover the top with the tin scrap. Second, dry stack a ring 2Ft high around the second stump leaving air holes equidistant around the perimeter at the base, let stump dry with chainsaw scores in the bark for a year then burn the stump in place if rain comes use tin over stump. Cut the first stump flat and put a treated wood tabletop on it for drinks get someone to carve the stump into a caricature with big ears. the tabletop for a hat.
CARVE A THRONE / GARDEN CHAIR FROM THE TREE STUMP. It's already inside of that tree stump at 3:39
You could make a table out of the tree:-)
Hey there I’m just letting you know that I’m the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee we have some legendary chainsaw sculptures craftsman. Check them out if you decide to go that route.
Don’t burn that wood! Looks like ash. Slice and chop it on to firewood and store it well. Holzhausen pile for the wood - look it up. Germans and Slavic and Swedish and Norwegian dry and store their wood in cool ways that are real sculptural and cool and simple.
Is there an image or map that shows the layout of these buildings and steps?
I think you would have to pay thousands for someone to carve that stump into something, the seat idea, that others said would be good. I watched a video of a guy digging out a big stump by hand, it's doable. The guy that dug his out said he didn't like the stump grinder because you still have all the roots going every which way, and he wanted all the roots out too. If you just make it level you could put something on it, like a potted plant or something.
You could make the stump into a table.
I think you should turn the stump into a table.
Nice 😎😎😎👍👍👍
Drill holes in the centre of the tree
Then make a fire you will have to do it a lot of times
And you can use it as a fire pit
When you burn it down you can dig up the roots
You will have to be near it when it is burning
And all the trimmings of the other trees you can bury in the fire pit 😮😮
What kind of tree was the stump??