Would love to see a long form video recorded inside the cabin during a rainstorm to get the sounds and see how it holds up. Maybe with a nice fire going in the fireplace.
If you like this, you should check out the Iron Age house build one by Smooth Gefixt. The just mostly finished, so you can binge watch the entire build. th-cam.com/channels/cdX6Av36HZKSBB5ZnW92Ng.html
My grandfather and grandmother were born in the late 1800s. They were in rural Va. Appalachia, so they were probably living about 50 years behind the rest of the country. My grandfather and his father cut down trees and rolled them down the hill to build a two-room cabin, with a freestanding kitchen away from the main house. I was able to go back and my mother and I got to walk through and see the cabin once again in 1995, there was still someone living there. The current resident had added electricity, but that was the only difference. Momma showed me the chinking between the logs, she used to get spanked cause she liked to pick the chinking lose on the front porch side of the house, lol. Momma also showed me where the huge washpot sat outside where her momma used to wash the clothes. The old well was still there and still in use. It was a wonderful trip into the past.
Back in the late 1960' s, my grandmother took us to where they homesteaded in a soddy in SOUTH DAKOTA there was still a pipe where the well had been, and she dropped it stone down into it. When we heard the" plunk" of the water, a joy came over her face like I've never seen. She told us about" Indian's" coming to visit and trade a little for food.. she had a picture of her family after her father came home from the Civil War. Before she died she witnessed the atomic bomb and moon landing. Over 100 when she died. And she was an artist,did many beautiful painting s.
@@danasmith3288 Appalachia, west virginia, which has been a poor part of the country for so long, i dont suggest going around appalachia without knowing someone from there lol
I don't think it's underappreciated. It's a quite popular channel and the videos get a good amount of views. The channel has a quite niche focus, which is very good because it shows in the content.
@@LazyLifeIFreak seen it happen. If you don't believe me read Little House on the Prarie. Just kidding. A chunk falls out, cinders hit the well dried wood, smoulders, then the draft causes a fire. That's why many fireplaces were made to be easily pulled away from the cabin.
@@LazyLifeIFreak Sure it will. This fireplace especially, because it’s not used all the times gets a lot of heat cycles (cold, hot, cold, hot…) which leads to much faster deterioration than a fireplace that would get constant heat (like back in the days, when people actually lived in these). All kinds of cracks form and leak gasses which have plenty of energy. “People have used wood fire long time” doesn’t make wood fire any safer. Fires are the reason why you don’t see chimneys build like this anymore or in most surviving older houses. You would have multiple layers of bricks, probably with fireproof insulation these days.
I've made plenty of cedar shakes by hand. As a kid I volunteered at a local living history village from the 1830s, every building has cedar shake siding and shingles. Since it was living history the carpenter shop ended up having the apprentices splitting and shaping the cedar shakes. Great video Jon, I've been enjoying the content for years. I do think it might be a good idea to do old recipes with a modern budget in mind, to give people ideas to work with. I'm personally leery of the way inflation is going.
Yeah its getting bad out there, this channel already has some great resources, so many of the recipes are simple and CAN be adapted to modern goods. Dried peas, raisins, flour, eggs, milk, etc are all still reasonably cheap in the amounts used in many baked goods here. At least cheaper and likely healthier than value added processed goods.
@@chonconnor6144 Agreed. I've seen recipes that use cheap ingredients that were expensive at the time. Another good source is old cookbook shows that feature depression era cooking.
Most of the recipes use cheap ingredients like vegetables flour raisins etc. Some things that were cheap in the 18th C are expensive or not available now, but usually you can find a substitute or just leave them out. Many things are cheaper today like sugar, spices, and chicken.
I have very little blacksmithing experience, so when I participated in a smithing workshop, I thought making a nail would be a good start because making them looks easy. I was so, so wrong.
Riving shingles is a big job... but you have another big job to think about. You should consider raising your chimney 2-3' to keep your beautiful new shake roof more safe!
Read the comments in the post about the chimney. There's a DA over there that says fire is impossible... Ya'll Take Care and be safe, John PS, I did seal and get the smell out of my house from an old chimney fire...
So cool to see some of the more mundane work of old skilled trades. I actually had heard a few times over the years of the monotonous and tiring nature of nail making but had never seen the process actually done. As a sidenote, most accounts I've seen indicated nail making was usually the most common busywork tasks for apprentices, both because it helped build up appropriate muscle strength and because it was one of the simplest in-demand items making it near idiot proof for an apprentice to make on their own.
I feel like I would get so much more satisfaction living this way and working these old trades rather than sitting at my desk all day. I don't think these old bones would fair too well though without a memory foam mattress.
@@jamesstubbs7222 I've seen a reference to a medieval blacksmith being expected to make 100 arrowheads per day, but that's a more complex process involving the cup part that fits over the arrow shaft, and presumably includes sharpening.
I love how your team is down for everything. Like I know you're all historian/reenactors but like... thats HARD work to cut that wood and do all that work on the cabin. Even if you take modern "shortcuts" (like going out for lunch/taking several weeks etc) for the most part you're doing so much hard work together and I love that about all of you.
I never thought I would set an alarm for a historical lighting live stream, but I surely did. And good thing, too! It saved me from a week long power outage. You just never know what you'll learn, and use, from Townsends.
So Sven and Ole were putting a new roof on the barn. Sven comes up and sees a bunch of nails on the ground behind Ole and asks him why he is throwing all those nails away. Ole said: "Well, when I reach into the bucket to get a nail about half the time the darn thing is sharp on the wrong end!" Sven says "Don't throw them away. We'll use then on the other side of the barn!"
Mr Townsend and co. I have memories of England where my Grandfather taught me the the axe and Froe. Your videos make me feel like my families traditions have roots this side of the ocean too. All thanks to your video I feel at home , even thousands of miles away. Regards Mike Harnell
Those skills at building came over with the people who immigrated from Europe and quite possibly included some of your blood relatives. It very well could be that some of your family took those skills your grandfather taught you and brought them over here to the colonies.
Incredible camera work, really makes me miss how slow things used to be. So much less stress. There really is a pace to life we don't think about anymore.
@@carlericvonkleistiii2188 Haha true. And I think a lot of stress today is self-created - social media, getting fixated on climbing the corporate ladder, etc.
Had the pleasure of watching this through with my family on the TV. No complaints, and many questions. From watching previous vids my two youngest daughter's, 8 and 10 went to school today with home made wooden muskets and tricorn hats. They are mightily impressed with your channels presentation of history. Many thanks from Ireland 🇮🇪
I so enjoy watching you guys work together as a team. Not like other shows where it’s all sarcastic comments, put downs etc. You have good chemistry and nice attitudes. You remind me a lot of Time Team-a group of talented people who work well together to teach and entertain. Keep up the great work!
Townsends is easily my favorite TH-cam channel to watch . It doesn't matter the video , roofing to eating a baked onion 🧅 it's always a good watch and you always learn something .
That shot at the end, playing card games in the evening after a hard days work. The infectious smile from some funny happenstance in the game. It made me grin and laugh with them. I know what it’s like to relax after finishing hard work inside a home you’ve built with your bare hands. It’s one of the most gratifying and comforting moments you’ll ever have in your life.
I grew up in a store and a half log house. Built in 1865. By the 1960 it was covered around with small room additions. Interior was plaster could tell. Sand stone block root cellar under the main cabin. It was about six feet of head room. The old house burned down in October of 1965. Only the logs remained. Turned dark my father and I took the them down one at a time breaking the wood pegs drilled in them. Found a Roman numeral dating it to 1865. That was my childhood
Something about watching you all, hard at work in the outdoors- you're channeling the spirit of the ancient settlers in the new world and showing them the respect that they're due. Love this channel.
What a tremendous amount of work and overlapping skills it takes to build a quality shelter. Thank you for showing us this high quality series. Be well and at peace.
I don’t recall ever seeing a ‘turkey wing’ roof. Of course, most of my knowledge of log cabins has come from what I’ve seen on television and movies. I am learning so much more about what it was ‘really’ like to be a settler and build a real cabin from scratch. Thanks to you all for bringing history to life and showing us just how hard our forefathers worked to build this country.
Thanks so much for the excellent quality videos, including this one. I can imagine this is what my ancestors did, when they came to Canada, in the early 1900s. In fact, on my dad's farm in Alberta, I do remember spending a small part of my life in an old house, that had logs in its construction, and shingles like this, on the roof. It had a wood stove inside. There was a more modern house built on the farm. One of my older siblings remembers when power was hooked up to the house on the farm, in the 1960s. I have seen an old photo of my dad, from the 1950s, when he was in his 20s, and he was standing by the old house, before the power was hooked up. I've heard that people were living in dwellings like this, in North America, even in the 1950s. Cheers!
I've been waiting so long to see this! So exciting! Wish I could bring my boys to show them in person. My one son is quite partial to your cooking videos.
Very satisfying to watch, and I’m sure it’s more satisfying to be the ones who can say, WE did this, with our own two hands. Beautiful work, gentlemen!
Great job on the roof and great job on the video. I learned shingle as a kid, our house was completely cedar shake on the outside. Our house was a 20' by 40' rectangle, plank on frame, built on 12" by 12" wood sill over a hand dug half basement, hand dug well out the back door outhouse down slope of the house. Never had electricity and running water was us boys coming from the well at a run, finally got gas lights in the 1970 's.
You did it as a kid. And these guys could only make the shingles for the first row on one side. They bought sawmill shingles for the rest without telling anyone...
Now I want a rainy day video. No dialogue, no music. Just 10-30 minutes with the window open and the rain outside and a crackling fire inside. A. See how the new roof weathers the rain B. Well, just a very soothing video.
You've all invested a tremendous amount of time & efforts into this wonderful cabin. That your fashioning your own nails for the roofing shakes, neato! This has been such an enjoyable project for me, thanks gentlemen...
If I haven't yet told you guys how much I appreciate what you do, I'm telling you now. That's a lot of hard work to do for us! I enjoyed every second of viewing. 👏🏻🔝💯
Finally a proper roof!!! Same as now, keeping the weather outside is what makes a house endure through time. Building is so easy and quick today because you don't see all the hours which go into it, but when you have to make every part and piece by yourself those hours add up. And all can be lost in a few minutes if it catches fire, leaving you to do it again... Totally different world than today...
It's so wonderful being able to get a living glimpse of what life was like for my relatives who settled in New York or New Netherland as it was called back then.
Beautiful work, haven't seen anything shared for all of our enjoyment so impressive since Dick Proenneke's cabin and even he used polyethylene for the roofing. This is quite impressive!
WE NEED MORE OF THIS COMUITY. it's just we see all theses people but no one else with a house or cabin. It would really cool to see more houses a day stuff
At one point in my mothers life she and her 9 other siblings lived in a cabin like this in Needham AL. It was built in the 1800s I think, none of the original daub remained so they had to stuff newspapers in the holes and the outhouse was full of snakes and spiders. I don't think it still exists, it was just off of a unpaved logging road host to a lot of traffic. I don't doubt it was torn down at some point.
It never ceases to impress me just how much work you guys put into this. I love these cabin videos. Theres nothing more satisfying than a good hard day's work.
So good to see this. I wrote in a scene in my latest 18C novel where two men are roofing a cabin with shingles like this and now that scene is even more vivid for me. I love this channel.
I very much appreciate the detail of "saving the nails" is illustrated here. Nails were very expensive in this era and would absolutely be reused. There are accounts of western settlers burning down homes as they changed locations to make it easier to salvage the nails from the ash instead of prying them out of the wood
11:58 Been a roofer most of my adult life, even split and installed some shake roofs. I have yet to see hand split shakes with sawn faces. I believe oak would be a bugger to shake, but no need to mislead folks. A bit of "stolen valour" in my opinion. Fun project. I have enjoyed the channel.
I noticed that too. Pretty low to hype up how hard those shakes were going to be, do the first layer on one side, then sneak in sawmill shakes and not say anything about it... Do they really think people are that numbskulled?
I'm a regular viewer of this channel but somehow missed this entire playlist until this video was "recommended". (StoopidYooToob!) This was a surprisingly interesting series!! Thank you Townsends Crew, for all the hard work!!
The shot of y'all playing cards, tending the hearth and journaling was very heartwarming. I think everyone needs more tender moments like these in their lives, just slow down and enjoying a life worth living.
The shake shingles look great! A new roof is a great thing to have as winter descends, being able to keep the weather on the outside. As an aside, may I say the woolen mittens I ordered last year are still in great shape and as comfortable as ever. It's very rare that you actually get what you order these days, but I love them. I need them in more than one colour now. 🍂🍁 Happy Harvest season!
I love to see how snow/ice builds up under the "turkey-wing" in a snow-storm and if that causes pre-mature aging for those shingles below it on the leeward side.
I like how his overall goal is to give the viewer the feeling of going back in time, not themselves. Otherwise they wouldn't have filmed it so meticulously, poking out part of the roof and then waiting for the next shot so it makes a nice continuous movie for us. I just love this guy
Townsends 2013: We're cooking 18th century recipes Townsends 2021: We're building a roof dor our log cabin with shingles and nails that we made ourselves
So who got to pull all the splinters out for yall? I'm pretty sure there were leather gloves for that time period. Great video. You guys really seem to work well together and it's fun to watch
I would like to see what the roof looks like from the inside looking out - during the day. I only caught a glimpse of that view of the bark roof which didn't really give me/us an idea of what it looked like/felt like from inside.
"In Hoosier life initiated: [He] erects a cabin in the woods, Wherein he stows his household goods. At first, round logs and clapboard roof, With puncheon floor, quite carpet proof, And paper windows, oiled and neat, His edifice is then complete. When four clay balls, in form of plummet, Adorn his wooden chimney's summit. Ensconced in this, let those who can Find out a truly happier man. The little youngsters rise around him, So numerous they quite astound him; Each with an ax or wheel in hand, And instinct to subdue the land." -Excerpt from the poem "The Hoosier's Nest" by John Finley (1797-1866)
We definitely need more cabin videos. Cooking in it, working in/on it, or just hanging out in it. Love the video intros where you spend a minute or two making coffee, starting a fire, getting tools laid out etc before you launch into your topic.
I had a summer job in high school restoring an old cabin at a state park...we used cedar for the shakes, because it is fairly plentiful around here and easy to work with. My job was splitting the cedar and frankly, after 6 hours it got a little boring..but the cabin looked great.
I'm not convinced that "turkey leg" is a great idea. Yes, you need some way of sealing the peak of the roof, but wouldn't you be better served by hollowing a log into a concave shape and laying that over the peak? In the event you do get a strong wind out of the east, it'll rip those shakes right off...
Would love to see a long form video recorded inside the cabin during a rainstorm to get the sounds and see how it holds up. Maybe with a nice fire going in the fireplace.
Great idea!
It would make for a great ASMR sleeping/relaxing video!
@@townsends A video of the fire burning in the cabin for an hour or two on a loop would be a nice stream for Christmas day as well.
@@townsends I love all of your videos and the unique way you help us understand the time period better!🤩🤓🤩🤓🤩
a patch up job video showing that they had to maintain the roof afterward would be great
this log cabin series is one of my favorite parts of the channel.
We waited for it for so long and it's even better than I imagined.
If you like this, you should check out the Iron Age house build one by Smooth Gefixt. The just mostly finished, so you can binge watch the entire build.
th-cam.com/channels/cdX6Av36HZKSBB5ZnW92Ng.html
The far out shots where everyone is just working on something to background music are SO relaxing
Of TH-cam you wanted to say, didn''t you?
Same
Intro shot of shovel bursting forth through old bark roof was straight out of a horror film. Scary good filming on this video.
Thank you so much!
My grandfather and grandmother were born in the late 1800s. They were in rural Va. Appalachia, so they were probably living about 50 years behind the rest of the country. My grandfather and his father cut down trees and rolled them down the hill to build a two-room cabin, with a freestanding kitchen away from the main house. I was able to go back and my mother and I got to walk through and see the cabin once again in 1995, there was still someone living there. The current resident had added electricity, but that was the only difference. Momma showed me the chinking between the logs, she used to get spanked cause she liked to pick the chinking lose on the front porch side of the house, lol. Momma also showed me where the huge washpot sat outside where her momma used to wash the clothes. The old well was still there and still in use. It was a wonderful trip into the past.
I am curious as to the exact area of Virginia?
how fortunate to have ties to the past that you were able to visit. That is so beautiful.
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Back in the late 1960' s, my grandmother took us to where they homesteaded in a soddy in SOUTH DAKOTA there was still a pipe where the well had been, and she dropped it stone down into it. When we heard the" plunk" of the water, a joy came over her face like I've never seen. She told us about" Indian's" coming to visit and trade a little for food.. she had a picture of her family after her father came home from the Civil War. Before she died she witnessed the atomic bomb and moon landing. Over 100 when she died. And she was an artist,did many beautiful painting s.
@@danasmith3288 Appalachia, west virginia, which has been a poor part of the country for so long, i dont suggest going around appalachia without knowing someone from there lol
This channel is massively underappreciated.
Truly. A channel that is a diamond in the rough. Glad to find this channel by accident.
Seriously - all the work that went into this one episode is amazing
Well said.
Hard to find stuff that's both this wholesome and interesting these days!
I don't think it's underappreciated. It's a quite popular channel and the videos get a good amount of views. The channel has a quite niche focus, which is very good because it shows in the content.
The most impressive part of the video was watching him walk on that roof wearing buckle-shoes.
This should be a two hour episode.
I'm down with that.
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Don't forget to check the clay in the fireplace after all the cabin shaking. Don't want a chimney fire now!
Lol. Shaking. I see what you did there.
Eh, I don't think its that much of a fire hazard, you'll need a lot of energy to start a fire on those big flat surfaces.
@@LazyLifeIFreak seen it happen. If you don't believe me read Little House on the Prarie. Just kidding. A chunk falls out, cinders hit the well dried wood, smoulders, then the draft causes a fire. That's why many fireplaces were made to be easily pulled away from the cabin.
@@Bildgesmythe Its a pretty deep fireplace, these people have used wood fires for a long time, I doubt it will happen.
@@LazyLifeIFreak Sure it will. This fireplace especially, because it’s not used all the times gets a lot of heat cycles (cold, hot, cold, hot…) which leads to much faster deterioration than a fireplace that would get constant heat (like back in the days, when people actually lived in these). All kinds of cracks form and leak gasses which have plenty of energy. “People have used wood fire long time” doesn’t make wood fire any safer. Fires are the reason why you don’t see chimneys build like this anymore or in most surviving older houses. You would have multiple layers of bricks, probably with fireproof insulation these days.
I could watch this all day! Beautiful camera work, terrific sound, and exceptionally hard work made to look easy and calming. I love this channel!
I listened to a good 3 + hours of their videos earlier while I was working
I've made plenty of cedar shakes by hand. As a kid I volunteered at a local living history village from the 1830s, every building has cedar shake siding and shingles. Since it was living history the carpenter shop ended up having the apprentices splitting and shaping the cedar shakes.
Great video Jon, I've been enjoying the content for years. I do think it might be a good idea to do old recipes with a modern budget in mind, to give people ideas to work with. I'm personally leery of the way inflation is going.
Yeah its getting bad out there, this channel already has some great resources, so many of the recipes are simple and CAN be adapted to modern goods. Dried peas, raisins, flour, eggs, milk, etc are all still reasonably cheap in the amounts used in many baked goods here. At least cheaper and likely healthier than value added processed goods.
@@chonconnor6144 Agreed. I've seen recipes that use cheap ingredients that were expensive at the time. Another good source is old cookbook shows that feature depression era cooking.
This sounds like a great place to visit. Where is it located?
@@jamespotter936 New Jersey, Allaire state park.
Most of the recipes use cheap ingredients like vegetables flour raisins etc. Some things that were cheap in the 18th C are expensive or not available now, but usually you can find a substitute or just leave them out. Many things are cheaper today like sugar, spices, and chicken.
I have very little blacksmithing experience, so when I participated in a smithing workshop, I thought making a nail would be a good start because making them looks easy.
I was so, so wrong.
Riving shingles is a big job... but you have another big job to think about. You should consider raising your chimney 2-3' to keep your beautiful new shake roof more safe!
I think they extended it in the last video. It was shorter.
Read the comments in the post about the chimney. There's a DA over there that says fire is impossible...
Ya'll Take Care and be safe, John
PS, I did seal and get the smell out of my house from an old chimney fire...
So cool to see some of the more mundane work of old skilled trades. I actually had heard a few times over the years of the monotonous and tiring nature of nail making but had never seen the process actually done. As a sidenote, most accounts I've seen indicated nail making was usually the most common busywork tasks for apprentices, both because it helped build up appropriate muscle strength and because it was one of the simplest in-demand items making it near idiot proof for an apprentice to make on their own.
I feel like I would get so much more satisfaction living this way and working these old trades rather than sitting at my desk all day. I don't think these old bones would fair too well though without a memory foam mattress.
Nail making was for the apprentices to do. It was not uncommon for them to have to make anywhere from 300 to 1000 nails a day
@@jamesstubbs7222 I've seen a reference to a medieval blacksmith being expected to make 100 arrowheads per day, but that's a more complex process involving the cup part that fits over the arrow shaft, and presumably includes sharpening.
@@googiegress A bodkin tip is actually pretty easy with the forming of the arrow socket being the time-consuming part.
@@MrHaighahatta Yep that's the type I was thinking of.
I love how your team is down for everything. Like I know you're all historian/reenactors but like... thats HARD work to cut that wood and do all that work on the cabin. Even if you take modern "shortcuts" (like going out for lunch/taking several weeks etc) for the most part you're doing so much hard work together and I love that about all of you.
I have been looking forward to this video! Wow, I'm not sure I ever thought I would say I was looking forward to a roofing video.
I never thought I would set an alarm for a historical lighting live stream, but I surely did. And good thing, too! It saved me from a week long power outage. You just never know what you'll learn, and use, from Townsends.
RIGHT! The roof video gains significance when YOU are the one living under the roof.
So Sven and Ole were putting a new roof on the barn. Sven comes up and sees a bunch of nails on the ground behind Ole and asks him why he is throwing all those nails away. Ole said: "Well, when I reach into the bucket to get a nail about half the time the darn thing is sharp on the wrong end!"
Sven says "Don't throw them away. We'll use then on the other side of the barn!"
Abbott and Costello
You from Minnesota?
good dumb joke. i approve.
That shot 3 seconds in made me jump!
It is Halloween season. They needed just add just a little scare.
I thought there was a bear or something bursting out!
I LITTERALLY thought "that fell off at a convenient time as the drone was going over" 🤣🤣
I kno I was like wait no what is happening
Hey nice to see you watch this too, I enjoy your fruit reviews.
Amazing production quality once again
Right. They made a roofing video beautiful.
Mr Townsend and co. I have memories of England where my Grandfather taught me the the axe and Froe. Your videos make me feel like my families traditions have roots this side of the ocean too. All thanks to your video I feel at home , even thousands of miles away.
Regards
Mike Harnell
One of the neatest videos Ive ever seen on TH-cam was about a family business who still made oak shingles for buildings in England.
Those skills at building came over with the people who immigrated from Europe and quite possibly included some of your blood relatives. It very well could be that some of your family took those skills your grandfather taught you and brought them over here to the colonies.
I can imagine how it felt to do this on a cabin in the 1700s. Finally, we'll be warmer and drier!!
That looks great. Very nice job, gentlefolk.
Incredible camera work, really makes me miss how slow things used to be. So much less stress. There really is a pace to life we don't think about anymore.
Probably wasnt as slow as this implies
@@jonc3519 true, they are learning as they go. People at this time learned it from their parents and were more efficient.
Except that the stress was...succeed or die slowly.. .
@@carlericvonkleistiii2188 Haha true. And I think a lot of stress today is self-created - social media, getting fixated on climbing the corporate ladder, etc.
Had the pleasure of watching this through with my family on the TV. No complaints, and many questions.
From watching previous vids my two youngest daughter's, 8 and 10 went to school today with home made wooden muskets and tricorn hats. They are mightily impressed with your channels presentation of history.
Many thanks from Ireland 🇮🇪
I so enjoy watching you guys work together as a team. Not like other shows where it’s all sarcastic comments, put downs etc. You have good chemistry and nice attitudes. You remind me a lot of Time Team-a group of talented people who work well together to teach and entertain. Keep up the great work!
Townsends is easily my favorite TH-cam channel to watch . It doesn't matter the video , roofing to eating a baked onion 🧅 it's always a good watch and you always learn something .
That shot at the end, playing card games in the evening after a hard days work. The infectious smile from some funny happenstance in the game. It made me grin and laugh with them.
I know what it’s like to relax after finishing hard work inside a home you’ve built with your bare hands. It’s one of the most gratifying and comforting moments you’ll ever have in your life.
Excellent work gentleman!!!!! True remarkable. Thanks for all the videos
I always love to see updates to the homestead. Great video!
I grew up in a store and a half log house. Built in 1865. By the 1960 it was covered around with small room additions. Interior was plaster could tell. Sand stone block root cellar under the main cabin. It was about six feet of head room. The old house burned down in October of 1965. Only the logs remained. Turned dark my father and I took the them down one at a time breaking the wood pegs drilled in them. Found a Roman numeral dating it to 1865. That was my childhood
The more I see these things done, the more admiration I have for our ancestors.
After a rough day at work, this video put a big smile on my face
Something about watching you all, hard at work in the outdoors- you're channeling the spirit of the ancient settlers in the new world and showing them the respect that they're due.
Love this channel.
A good days work, a hearty meal and a good card game, it doesn't get much better than this.
What a tremendous amount of work and overlapping skills it takes to build a quality shelter. Thank you for showing us this high quality series. Be well and at peace.
Not even a single scream from when he was knocking the old bark off the roof . I would have expected at least one MASSIVE spider in that lot. lol.
I don’t recall ever seeing a ‘turkey wing’ roof. Of course, most of my knowledge of log cabins has come from what I’ve seen on television and movies. I am learning so much more about what it was ‘really’ like to be a settler and build a real cabin from scratch. Thanks to you all for bringing history to life and showing us just how hard our forefathers worked to build this country.
Keep em coming. Your videos are a chance to escape this crazy modern world and go back to a much quieter time
It's so refreshing to see people working to build something.
Love hearing the birds singing in the background. So much nicer than the constant noise from the road (we're next to a highway and a busy street)
Thanks so much for the excellent quality videos, including this one. I can imagine this is what my ancestors did, when they came to Canada, in the early 1900s. In fact, on my dad's farm in Alberta, I do remember spending a small part of my life in an old house, that had logs in its construction, and shingles like this, on the roof. It had a wood stove inside. There was a more modern house built on the farm. One of my older siblings remembers when power was hooked up to the house on the farm, in the 1960s. I have seen an old photo of my dad, from the 1950s, when he was in his 20s, and he was standing by the old house, before the power was hooked up. I've heard that people were living in dwellings like this, in North America, even in the 1950s. Cheers!
As a kid, 12-14 years old, my summer job was shaking roofs. I really enjoyed it, and appreciate the things I learned.
I've been waiting so long to see this! So exciting! Wish I could bring my boys to show them in person. My one son is quite partial to your cooking videos.
7:59 Great shot of teamwork, and the process too
Very satisfying to watch, and I’m sure it’s more satisfying to be the ones who can say, WE did this, with our own two hands. Beautiful work, gentlemen!
They only made the shingles for the first row on one side. They bought sawmill shingles for the rest...
A new Mrs. Crocombe video AND a new Townsend video on the same day?! Life is good! :)
I would love to see a traditional thanksgiving dinner cooked at the cabin.
Extremely satisfying!!!! Nice work, the production was of superb quality!!
Great job on the roof and great job on the video. I learned shingle as a kid, our house was completely cedar shake on the outside. Our house was a 20' by 40' rectangle, plank on frame, built on 12" by 12" wood sill over a hand dug half basement, hand dug well out the back door outhouse down slope of the house. Never had electricity and running water was us boys coming from the well at a run, finally got gas lights in the 1970 's.
You did it as a kid. And these guys could only make the shingles for the first row on one side. They bought sawmill shingles for the rest without telling anyone...
Now I want a rainy day video. No dialogue, no music. Just 10-30 minutes with the window open and the rain outside and a crackling fire inside.
A. See how the new roof weathers the rain
B. Well, just a very soothing video.
Sounds great to me, too...!
You've all invested a tremendous amount of time & efforts into this wonderful cabin.
That your fashioning your own nails for the roofing shakes, neato!
This has been such an enjoyable project for me, thanks gentlemen...
One of the best videos I've seen, keep it up. 😊
If I haven't yet told you guys how much I appreciate what you do, I'm telling you now. That's a lot of hard work to do for us! I enjoyed every second of viewing. 👏🏻🔝💯
Amazing work boys wow as a roofer this makes me happy
I love the pacing of these videos. Camera work is also ever improving. Nicely done all involved!
Finally a proper roof!!! Same as now, keeping the weather outside is what makes a house endure through time. Building is so easy and quick today because you don't see all the hours which go into it, but when you have to make every part and piece by yourself those hours add up. And all can be lost in a few minutes if it catches fire, leaving you to do it again... Totally different world than today...
Watching them stand back to admire the completed roof was such a good shot. Im going to watch the campfire rabbit video now. Byeeeeee lol
The drone footage works well! Nice job guys!
Tearing that old roof off had to be so satisfying
It's so wonderful being able to get a living glimpse of what life was like for my relatives who settled in New York or New Netherland as it was called back then.
Great job, hope it sheds water! I remember the old foxfire books that showed how to make shakes, good to see the whole process.
I thought I was the only one that remembered those books. Wish I still had my father's set, but it was damaged beyond salvage.
Absolutely beautiful cabin.
Beautiful work, haven't seen anything shared for all of our enjoyment so impressive since Dick Proenneke's cabin and even he used polyethylene for the roofing. This is quite impressive!
Man that looked like a LOT of work!
WE NEED MORE OF THIS COMUITY. it's just we see all theses people but no one else with a house or cabin. It would really cool to see more houses a day stuff
And other things, sorry if this seems rude
Thanks for the likes
Beautiful build. Usually you don't see the turkey wing on homes
Great opening shot!
J'attendais avec impatience de voir à quoi ressemblerait le nouveau toit. Je n'ai pas été déçu. Il est juste magnifique.
Super série de vidéos.
cette chaîne est un plaisir à regarder
If I were a teacher, I give you an A for great production value. Since I am not a teacher, I'll give you an A+++
plus
What about the fact that they purchased the shingles to finish 95% of the job and not tell anybody?
I have been searching for YEARS for a credible source on traditional log cabin shingles THANK YOU
At one point in my mothers life she and her 9 other siblings lived in a cabin like this in Needham AL. It was built in the 1800s I think, none of the original daub remained so they had to stuff newspapers in the holes and the outhouse was full of snakes and spiders. I don't think it still exists, it was just off of a unpaved logging road host to a lot of traffic. I don't doubt it was torn down at some point.
It never ceases to impress me just how much work you guys put into this. I love these cabin videos. Theres nothing more satisfying than a good hard day's work.
With a stressful day at work this video will either relax me or spur me to disappear into the woods. Either way, thanks.
So good to see this. I wrote in a scene in my latest 18C novel where two men are roofing a cabin with shingles like this and now that scene is even more vivid for me. I love this channel.
Beautiful.
I very much appreciate the detail of "saving the nails" is illustrated here. Nails were very expensive in this era and would absolutely be reused. There are accounts of western settlers burning down homes as they changed locations to make it easier to salvage the nails from the ash instead of prying them out of the wood
11:58
Been a roofer most of my adult life, even split and installed some shake roofs. I have yet to see hand split shakes with sawn faces.
I believe oak would be a bugger to shake, but no need to mislead folks. A bit of "stolen valour" in my opinion.
Fun project.
I have enjoyed the channel.
I noticed that too. Pretty low to hype up how hard those shakes were going to be, do the first layer on one side, then sneak in sawmill shakes and not say anything about it... Do they really think people are that numbskulled?
@@jmackman 10:10 saw marks ;-)
Stolen valour/ is that like vamped velvet?
I'm a regular viewer of this channel but somehow missed this entire playlist until this video was "recommended". (StoopidYooToob!) This was a surprisingly interesting series!! Thank you Townsends Crew, for all the hard work!!
Love this stuff. Everyone did a fantastic job. Wondering how many splinters you guys got. Ouch!
I can't even get my friends together for dinner. I love that you have like-minded people not only willing to help you build, but to do it in-period!
The TEAM got the roof done BEFORE winter. With so much going on, I had my doubts. Life inside should be so much better when cold, wet weather comes.
The shot of y'all playing cards, tending the hearth and journaling was very heartwarming. I think everyone needs more tender moments like these in their lives, just slow down and enjoying a life worth living.
The shake shingles look great! A new roof is a great thing to have as winter descends, being able to keep the weather on the outside.
As an aside, may I say the woolen mittens I ordered last year are still in great shape and as comfortable as ever. It's very rare that you actually get what you order these days, but I love them. I need them in more than one colour now. 🍂🍁
Happy Harvest season!
They only made the shingles for the first row on one side. They bought sawmill shingles for the rest without telling anyone...
Man seeing John in the kitchen will never give you a full representation of his true skill set. Good job guys! Very impressed with all of you
I love to see how snow/ice builds up under the "turkey-wing" in a snow-storm and if that causes pre-mature aging for those shingles below it on the leeward side.
I like how his overall goal is to give the viewer the feeling of going back in time, not themselves.
Otherwise they wouldn't have filmed it so meticulously, poking out part of the roof and then waiting for the next shot so it makes a nice continuous movie for us.
I just love this guy
Townsends 2013: We're cooking 18th century recipes
Townsends 2021: We're building a roof dor our log cabin with shingles and nails that we made ourselves
the channel just continues to grow beautifully, doesn't it?
They only made the shingles for the first row on one side. They bought sawmill shingles for the rest without telling anyone...
@@jmackman Lolz how would you know? You were there, I suppose? 🤣
@@rosemcguinn5301 uhh I watched the video. It’s clear to see the difference if you go back and watch it.
I love watching these homestead videos they're definitely my favorite
made that look easy and looks fantastic compared to the old bark
Such an awesome series and channel. Thank you do much for sharing. The kids and I love watching history come alive!
So who got to pull all the splinters out for yall? I'm pretty sure there were leather gloves for that time period. Great video. You guys really seem to work well together and it's fun to watch
How many people in those days could afford fancy leather gloves?
Splinters aren't an issue when you buy premade shingles like they did...
You guys are awesome. I truly enjoy your videos on early American history. It also reminds me life was a lot tougher then than now.
Ive never clicked faster on a new video
Love seeing that big man isn’t afraid of some hard work, very authentic! He’s my new favorite!
I would like to see what the roof looks like from the inside looking out - during the day. I only caught a glimpse of that view of the bark roof which didn't really give me/us an idea of what it looked like/felt like from inside.
Awesome video during these days real craftsman will make it through these tough times
"In Hoosier life initiated:
[He] erects a cabin in the woods,
Wherein he stows his household goods.
At first, round logs and clapboard roof,
With puncheon floor, quite carpet proof,
And paper windows, oiled and neat,
His edifice is then complete.
When four clay balls, in form of plummet,
Adorn his wooden chimney's summit.
Ensconced in this, let those who can
Find out a truly happier man.
The little youngsters rise around him,
So numerous they quite astound him;
Each with an ax or wheel in hand,
And instinct to subdue the land."
-Excerpt from the poem "The Hoosier's Nest" by John Finley (1797-1866)
We definitely need more cabin videos. Cooking in it, working in/on it, or just hanging out in it. Love the video intros where you spend a minute or two making coffee, starting a fire, getting tools laid out etc before you launch into your topic.
That's the most cabiny lookin' cabin I've seen thus far.
Finer than a lady with exposed ankles!.
I had a summer job in high school restoring an old cabin at a state park...we used cedar for the shakes, because it is fairly plentiful around here and easy to work with. My job was splitting the cedar and frankly, after 6 hours it got a little boring..but the cabin looked great.
I'm not convinced that "turkey leg" is a great idea. Yes, you need some way of sealing the peak of the roof, but wouldn't you be better served by hollowing a log into a concave shape and laying that over the peak? In the event you do get a strong wind out of the east, it'll rip those shakes right off...
You could cap the ridge by laying the shakes horizontally across the peak, the same way modern shake roof ridges are.
I'm loving that new roof, great job!