Can We Make A Chair From A Tree In A Day? Hand Tools Only.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2018
- A challenge...can we cut down a tree and make a chair from it, all within one day. So that involves splitting out the wood, pole lathe turning, steam bending, assembly and Shaker tape seat weaving..all to be completed in a day.
Many thanks for help from the Kent Bodgers in making this film. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
This was extremely entertaining, and I had no idea I needed a foot powered lathe until tonight.
Chris B same
Don't we all..
Likewise, they looked awesome. I was taking notes of how they're constructed as i was watching it haha
I forget who but someone has blueprints for a spring pole lathe made with 2x4's. Also, while they still work well most turning tools aren't designed for a pole lathe and often times standard chisels work better and many people make their own. If I remember correctly wilderness outfitters has a video on making a turning chisel
There are two films on my channel that will show you how to make them...quick and slower builds.
When I saw the title I expected a chair that was mostly sticks that still had bark on them. After watching I am amazed at how much can be done with hand tools. This is much better craftsmanship than most can do with high end electric tools. Excellent job!
Thanks
I would say that you don't know squat about working with power tools.
@@savannah505 Yep, a powered lathe, table saw and plane would turn around most of these components well before midday. Not to take away from how impressive it is to do by hand though.
@@joestevenson5568 "most can do with" he wrote. You can have the most amazing tools, but with limited knowledge, it will still be shitty. And you can have only a pocket knife, but with amazing knowledge, it will be astonishing!
@@joestevenson5568 It would be entertaining to make the same type of chair in a day in a powered shop. Its more about the skill of the craftsmen than how the tools are powered.
In my experience, it takes me 4 days to build up the energy to go to ikea and buy a chair.
Lmao Right?!
Real men build their chairs!
@@brokentoedspoon real men can assemble ikea without the manual
ive never been inside an ikea in my life or have ever seen one
@@dhycee8215 Now that's just madness..
I like how this is a bunch of older gentlemen who are all clearly quite experienced in woodworking. It's also very entertaining and interesting to watch. Good job fellas, you did some excellent work and you should be proud of yourselves.
I am from the Philippines. First time seeing this old method of bending wood. The proper technique of using axe and everything in between is something you could not learned from school it is a combination of your friends putting so much effort and sharing one's idea into a reality. The amount of time your group put into making that wonderful chair is priceless. Thank you very much Harry and Friends....
@@Ian-sp5gs good luck with the house buddy
Maybe during your childhood you play barbie dolls, cmmon men, shame on you if you grew up that dont know anything
This was the way certain kinds of chairs were made through the 1800s. :)
There's something very satisfying about the sound of those old style lathes.
I find it very soothing
I'm sexually stimulated by the premise of a foot powered handmade lathe powered by a bit of string, and a pliable branch.
Back then machines were made to ease the work of humans and to make it more enjoyable. Nowadays they are being made to enslave us more and more, so nobody cares if the noises they make are nice for the ear.
@@YamiKisara Yes indeed. The sounds of this handwork is maybe engraved into our brain knowing unconsciously we where home save with the community. I don't like the path humanity is going. But on the long run humanity will win. Too many people have good hearts and spirit. Someday, somewhere...revolution.
Passing on the knowledge to the new generations. I thought maybe someone would nail some pieces and make a chair, but the attention to detail is very refreshing and humbling.
Drying the ends and creating a natural locking system of the pieces was a valuable piece of info.
Thanks
This is historical footage for a new society
If only. Just look at this lot. Not a single one does not have a head full of grey hairs. In just a couple of years, there wouldn't be a single bodger left in the world.
But I am not the person to complain. Interesting to watch all these people using handtools. Marvel at their skills. But I use powertools if I can. How else would I find the time for my other hobby? Watching youtube videos. :)
I was thinking, "oh that's easy, you just maybe get some sticks, get a mortise tool, a hole saw, and a couple electric drills. No problem!"
But not only did you guys make a chair, you made a NICE chair. With hand tools. In the woods. In one day.
This was a great watch.
A well mannered effort and a fine example of collaboration. Truly, well done Gentlemen and Ladies.
Was not aware that man powered lathes like that existed until now. Kinda shows my age a bit but so does the minecraft character thats been my profile picture for like 6 years
Minecraft. What is that? Like Legos on a computer?
Wow.
Roblox is lego on computers, minecraft is more of a blocky style game.
I was rather impressed with the variety in designs as well.
I saw at least 3 types so far and I'm not even done watching yet.
Go out learn something ;)
Dang, when they were in it to make a chair... they meant a legit chair with quality joinery and shape. Excellent!
Chair makers here made the stretchers of seasoned wood so I thought the tip about the hot sand to dry the ends was especially interesting. Thanks so much for posting this informative and fun vid.
That was most impressive , what a great example of proper team work, no egos just doing what they do & doing it very well . Nice to see my cousins Carole & Keith having fun and using olde worlde skills .
That was brilliant Harry, not only was it a load of people coming together with a common goal but man that was a gorgeous chair, you guys didn't go half hearted into it. Never seen the drying the ends technique before but completely makes sense. Loved the whole video.
Alright, coolest group ever, I'm moving there from Florida. Hope you'll have me.
Yes....you are welcome!
now thats a man who know how to handle an ax, excellent work ax guy
That David Dunk fella sure knows how to wield an axe
It would have taken me two days to get the tree down. I don't think I've ever hit the same spot twice on purpose with an axe.
Agreed! I was just thinking the same thing!!
No.not to cut trees !!!
Amazing accuracy
My thought exactly in the first minute of the video seeing an axe used that well was worth a like without seeing the rest of this excellent video.
A pity there are no younger people with these interests.
I am very impressed not only by how quickly you all managed to make the chair but also by how nice it looked when it was done. Well done, you all deserve respect for keeping such a lovely skill alive. I am currently building a pole lathe and I hope, someday, to be able to do such fine work as well!
Very, very cool. I honestly wish things were a little more like the old days. People would appreciate things more.
extremely hard to believe such a magnificent piece of workmanship was finished in one day without electric tools! I'm very inspired to make something with my aunt's bamboo that she wants me to get rid of from her back yard!
Fun to see the old lathes in motion. And the hot air balloon. Thank you harry!
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Beautiful. I really enjoyed this video, thanks from America!
Just in awe how awesome it must be to have a bunch of like minded people, enjoying woodworking. Thanks for creating and sharing this, it was thoroughly enjoyable.
Hats off for the hard work from everyone. Thank you for bringing us along.
Incredible work all round, full credit to the range of skills on display and to have accomplished all that in one day, superb! ~Peace~
Thanks Zed.
Thanks Harry and Zed! Great job. I am going to view the video again.
Well done everyone, well made vid too, a chair by committee ! blinkin miracle really.
Loved the scene where you bent the legs! Six lads, each with their own part to play. They start by going through those parts in turn, and the interplay between them as they execute it all is gorgeous to watch!
Wonderful.
Men in sheds coming together at it best.
Yes I know you weren't in a shed but it's the image of old retired Englishmen working together using historic skills and artistry.
We live in a world where we purchase stuff that is mass produced with minimum skill required, so to see something that is genuinely 'hand-made' is an education in itself.
Without people like you guys our historic knowledge would be lost.
👍👏👏👏👏👏
Wow total respect to the skill of all you gentlemen.
Thanks, they are a great bunch...so many really nice people in Bodgers.org.uk
An inspiring display of teamwork. The chair is beautiful. Seeing the amount of skill, passion and patience that went into this project makes it a masterpiece. I’ve never been more impressed.
What's really lovely is the calmness and peace from the lack 0f noisy power tools...bliss and really enjoyable to watch. Well done. Fantastic and informative 👍
What a beautiful piece, and the lack of power tools is very refreshing as are the friendships & the "3 C's" ~ cooperation, camaraderie and creativity !!!! Thanks for sharing the video
Nice to see such a group effort and the variations of tools in the individual kits is interesting. I imagine it was nice, a day in the woods and a bit of fire smoke and wood shavings, what more could anybody ask for?!
It's like watching my dad working. I missed him everyday
Seeing these gentlemen working together crafting a masterpiece with craftsmanship like no other.... makes me realize the new generation is moving backwards in intellect and soul. i wish we could be more like you
Don't neg your own generation cuz you saw a bunch of geezers build a chair on youtube lol
I'd say the new generation could probably whip out one in the same time with 2 people, a chainsaw, a band saw , a planer, a cnc router and a cnc lathe. True, it's not as romantic, but it is more efficient and still requires a bit of intellect.
not to belittle the work done here, that's a great demonstration of craftsmanship.
Thats what I meant indeed, but we do depend on machines to get things done. You know what would be cool, old gen vs new gen using same techniques in a video. Anyone up for it?
Man-powered vs. battery-powered machine to spank your little ass.
In germany for joiners you will learn new techniques but you will also learn those old techniques so that when you finished your apprenticeship you could do things like shown in the video and use modern stuff like CNC routers and CAD's. And then you also can go onto journey men years to learn how its done all over the world but only few choose to do it cus there are restrictions to who can do it and also alot of restrictions on how to behave on you journey like you can only travel using your own feet (if possible, you obv cant walk from Europe to America) and you have to be wandering for full 3 years.
A fine display of teamwork and craftsmanship. Really a beautiful chair. Thank you Harry for bringing this to us.
I love that the whole thing is hand-chopped and hand-sawn, Harry. Way to go!
Lovely chair, well done!
Just a bunch of old dudes in the woods making a chair with old techniques. I can't think of anything more relaxing. Love it!
Hobby, satisfaction, entertainment, creativity, perfection, teamwork and good food. Full packed !!
Beautiful work fellas! cheers from Canada!
I have subscribed! It is such a pleasure to see so much know-how being delivered in such a small time frame by Artisans, Journeymen and other gentlemen with great skill, doing the near impossible with very limited resources, so quickly, with their own treasured tools.
I envy you all.
Hi Bryan..if you are in the UK you would be very welcome to attend some greenwood working events, and join Bodgers.org.uk
Ok, this is really cool. Not only the chair but this whole organization in general!
Too good!! Old skills,simple tools . Old talents just never grows old.
not fair! You didn't say you had an experienced crew and a whole factory.
Agreed! Click bait! I'm kidding, of course. Fine, fine craftsmanship on display all around.
Yep, he may as well have bought an ikea flat pack :-)
It's a get rich chair quick scheme! (@_@) Who has time to air dry lumber for a few years?
He did say we.
if not for the clamps
The ending was awesome, watching all those guys smile as they take turns sitting in it.
Harry you truly one of a kind. I enjoy your videos very much. Keeping the old crafts alive is a marvelous thing. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Jack
Just brilliant! Compelling watching.
I've been inspired by this video, as we're about to chop down a small tree in the garden...
The coolest part about this is to see exactly what is required in order to make a chair. I'm sure with factories and stuff they can do this much faster but all the steps are the same. Would of loved to help with this. Seems like it would of been fun.
I'm also very impressed that he knew all the right people who had these skills. I also wonder how long set up took.
@@Jaden-lv7kx We practised the steam bending the week before. We are all members of Bodgers.org.uk so meet up regularly. Rgds Harry
Nice to see there are still some people around with these skills. Shame there are no young there, but I suppose that is a sign of the times. Good on you putting these kind of things on video for others to see. Like me. :-)
Imagine getting lost in the woods and then stumbling upon this... you’d think you got sent back in time 😂 This is truly amazing!! I love watching talented people doing what they love!
Blimey, thats an impressive looking chair. From the title I was expecting something resembling a log. Great video gentleman.
Making a chair: Difficult
Only using hand-tools: Very difficult
In a day: insane
Chair in a day with powertools would be hilariously trivial.
Yeh, even students in high school with 0 woodworking experience can make a near perfect chair with powertools.
These gentlemen, they live their day on hard mode or what? Awesome! Love watching that old woodturning technique
@@orionweiss5418 No, they can't. It will be a chair but no way close to perfect.
The bodgers historically did the pieces for 50 chairs in a day (assembling none). And lived in terrible poverty.
I dont leave youtube comments a lot, but this was truly an incredible build. The craftsmanship and attention to detail was better than anything I could have done even with electric power tools.
Thanks Aidan...we have a coracle build coming up!
I never realized a chair is so much work...
If you randomly asked me up until now if a carpenter can make a single chair in a day i would probably say "SURE! in a few hours probably..."
Here it took you up until night time and you were a lot of people working together... mind blown
Sure he could.. with electricity
Bunch of some amazing people 🙏🙏
I can just imagine they are all James May working on one chair.
A cool chair turned out))) I’ll do this on a wheelchair for myself in such a way, thanks for the idea.
That homemade lathe was the coolest thing ive ever seen a woodworker create!
These guys worked so well they probably majored in chair making Xd.
It's a hobby club keeping an old handicraft alive.
The Axemans a legend
Yes a a really nice bloke with it.
Wow. What an awesome teamwork over there!
Fantastic! Such fun to be brought along.
Very interesting and excellent production, Mr. Rogers. In times past, many things were done this way, with friends and neighbors joining together, sharing their time, skills, knowledge, tools and materials, to accomplish something otherwise very difficult, if not impossible. It makes one wonder though, what that chair would have to cost a buyer in order to pay all the craftspeople a living wage for the day, not even to mention, feeding them too! And of course, the cost of the log needs to be included, and perhaps even a reasonable profit. I don't believe many of us could afford that chair now, although I would love to have it. Since cooperative, skilled, communities like yours are very rare these days, I suppose I'll just have to learn to do it myself. And now you've shown us how to do it! Thank you, sir.
Thanks..if you are in the UK consider joining the Bodgers, if you are in a different country perhaps start your own greenwoodwork group? Regards Harry
People in the past did things very differently. They would get things not every couple of years, but every couple decades or even generations; But their stuff also lasted generations.
Though this is a very fancy chair, most people would rather haved used straight pieces, flat boards and square legs.
'Back in the day' it wasn't friends and neighbours who made this is would have been a group of travelling craftsmen who set up camp in a woodland near a town for a few weeks and made as many tables and chairs as were ordered. A lot of the stuff they made is still being used hundreds of years later, as was the plan.
My favorite part was when they took turns sitting in it.
Absolutely fantastic. Learning to use the lathe myself, and just getting into the world of woodworking. Really blown away.
Set. And play checkers
I'm thinking this isn't that boy's first rodeo with an axe in his hands.
Amazing...beautiful work!!!
Before watching I thought how hard can it be to make a chair. Today we have many electrical tools that make it a breeze to make a chair.
When I started watching I discovered why this video has been made.
Thank you for showing the old (non electric) way of making wooden things :)
Coincidence...I knocked up a couple of these this morning, then after breakfast, I spent the rest of the day watching TH-cam. I came across this video. Gentlemen you did very well and I thank you very much for your time and effort. By the way, I'm ambidextrous.
Thanks
Yes it is only 399$
Cannot do thisss!!
But can it do this
@@dylanbutler698 It cannot
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Just amazing. Loved so many different things in this video. The seriousness of the workers, the craftsmanship, how well they worked together, those lathes wow. Plus it’s not a cheesy chair. It’s great and professional.
Thanks
Amazing! Knowing the increadible effort and attention that has gone into making that chair makes it an endlessly more beautiful piece than anything you could buy at the store. Thankyou for sharing this with the world.
Thank you very much!
из сырого дерева сделали ((
этот стул скрутит во все стороны когда он высохнет
Они же вроде как сушили все детали или не поможет?
Ash?
Yes that's right
Thanks. I thought so but didn't hear mention and didn't see it mentioned in the comments.
Thanks 🙏.
I really enjoy watching how traditional hand crafted things were made. Extremely satisfying to watch, thank you for sharing 😊
Real lumberjack, yet no beard or flannel. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!?!?!
Europe
They are bodgers. :) Not lumberjacks. You could earn a decent living as a lumberjack....
get enough people even a house can be built in a day
Nan... get enough people, with someone able to organise everything, and you can have have a house in one day. The more people, the more organisation will be needed
Thoroughly enjoyed the video. I'm a 45 year exp. cabinetmaker and love some of the old school methods, learned a few new ones now. Thanks for the upload!
Thanks Brian
How wonderful work you've done!! You showed me .... taught me what is life for human. We should be stopping along with too much technology anymore. I mean more than necessary for living.
Plant two before u cut one.
That would have taken another day, unfortunately.
:)
poo in loo
The axman is an absolute expert! A pleasure to watch and learn from.
Most beautiful , technically encouraging and positively effective on humanity video, I'v seen for ages .
Thank you
Excellent ,shows what team work can do and loved the craftsmanship of you all , My Dad made a pole lathe back in the 1950's but got to say was pleased when he bought an old treadle lathe that had been converted to electric !
So much knowledge and wisdom united there, thank you for sharing.
I found this absolutely fascinating. Well done Kent Bodger's!
I love seeing y’all working together to make something amazing
Best part was all the cheery banter! I love it!
FOOT POWERED LATHE, that is so great. Awesome work guys
this is really interesting, makes you appreciate the things around you even more
Well, with no power tool, yeah.. it's gonna take a long time.. respect to you guys! GREAT WORK!! Keep it up men!
I absolutely love that manual lathe. This place would be such a treat to browse.
Really impressive and beautiful. And the woodworkers seem like really gentle people. Thanks for sharing this video.
That's bloody amazing, well done gents! I can definitely relate to John's nerves about getting those legs bent properly on that jig even though we use completely different materials!
Simply fantastic! Excellent craftsmanship. Thanks a lot for taping and sharing.
Fabulous !! A bunch of ageing dreamers out in the woods, whittling away - though I had understood that it would be one tree, one man, one day, one chair, not a cast of thousands ! Great tools, too . . .
Watching this sort of well performed, hard labour feels therapeutic to me! And the excellent humor in there puts the cherry on top. Great content!
This has to be the most awesome video i have seen on the internet!
That's nice work Gents. I'm a carpenter that has built houses and additions for the most part. I'd enjoy making chairs with you fellows. It looks very rewarding.