There are few things as fine as mucking about in boats. Archeological digs; boats. A few keen lads n stuff that floats n ropes. Boats. Multi billionaires. Boats.
There is a dugout on display in Benton, AR. It was found underwater near the town. Once it was dug out of the mud and recovered, it was stored in a pond until conservators could stabilize it. No telling how many years it had been there.
Very cool! While a Micosukee friend down in Florida described the process, it is still awesome to see it in living color. His tribe favored cypress, which is perfect...since those things grow in the water, they tend not to waterlog or rot for a long time. He said some of them lasted multiple generations. Construction was the same; fire and axes.
Cypress is also a very light wood, which would also make it quick on the water. My folks have a bunch of bald cypress where they live. I'm very tempted to make a dugout now.
@@joshuacourtney3916 please check the legality of cutting one down on their property. Based on some laws, if they are in a wetland, they cannot be cut depending on whether or not they are above or below the high water mark. If you are able to get one done, I'd love to see the result...and I bet I'm not the only one! 👍
I admire how they kept full authenticity despite all the back breaking labor this took, thank you Townsend crew for putting this project together and sharing it with the rest of us
The series you did on this was all the motivation I needed to build my own dugout. It took a full year and a lot of sweat and blood, but the Kanawha River is being traveled by dugout canoe once again. Thanks Jon.
Jon's tenacity to forge ahead when problems arise is commendable. Just as in the days of past, there was little excuse for not completing what needed to be done.
In the boundary waters in Minnesota you can see giant logs that were cut down with an axe in the water, and they are so well preserved you can still see the axe marks. Amazing how well water can preserve wood.
A friend of mine is a professor at the University of Wisconsin. They've been helping and consulting on the preservation of a 3000 year old dugout canoe brought up from a lake. It's one of the oldest found in the region. Pretty awesome stuff
The lads didn't appear too enthusiasti lol. Smoke break. Interesting to see how slowly the log burned down. Quite a task for you and team John, good job sir.
The builds you guys do always make me think you all had to be sore. Then I see the smiles during the results and I know it was 100% worth it. Also I feel like lately this is more about history than what the history channel has.
That was so awesome guys! I imagine it was such a surreal experience and filled you all with a great love and gratitude knowing that you guys built this canoe and actually used it. This was such a joy for me to watch!! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Truly an amazing channel with extraordinary people with such a deep profound love of our ancestors!!!!!!! Thank you all again.
I really enjoyed these videos when the first came out. I had dipped in and out of the channel and I was super impressed with the cinematography on this series and the great complimenting soundtrack. Nothing was over used or forced. Glad to see a full length version. Hope you are all well.
This is awesome. Thank you for venerating American history and culture. Many people these days would have us believe our history is wicked and our culture doesn't exist.
The Indians and Cajuns from south Louisiana had no problem making dugouts from cypress trees. Lots of good videos on how they were made and my grandfather had one that he used for trapping the swamps behind his and his wife’s homestead. I used it to duck hunt in it and i was a little heavy for it at 170 lbs. My lab would not stay put in the bow and led to some hilarious sinking in the mud. Water was on one foot or less in the duck ponds. My boss had one at his camp in central louisiana. You had to keep water in them to keep the bottom from cracking but so there was always an inch of water in the bottom. The trees they used were ancient trees that had been fallen by storms .
I worked as a historical interpreter at a fur trade living history site and paddled a large birch bark canoe on several occasions. It took on water and became significantly heavier when we took it back to the canoe shed on the shoulder of four guys.
I enjoyed the installments way back when, and really enjoyed this reprised compilation. Since the series was first uploaded some years ago, I've begun following a channel called Working Horses with Jim. He lumbers with draft horses. Probably the main reason he hauls lumber with draft horses is that he can access places that machines can't. He can go into heavily forested land, maybe at most having to cut a trail just wide enough for the horses and cart, whereas machines would need wider trails with more disruption to the forest. It's got me wondering if draft horses could have hauled that log section out of the pit? That would be interesting to see! But it'll remain an unanswered question. Fun to wonder about, anyway.
I bet ya'll had some good blisters after that was done! Awesome project. We have a dug-out in the local museum that my great great uncle made back in the 20's or 30's and it was used as a working boat on the river by my grandmother and others when they were growing up.
I'd forgotten how amazing the video was for this build, especially the first few burns on the log and shots of the finished boat moving on the water. The folks that hollowed this out are just plain amazing - Superman's got nothing on this bunch!
Didn't people in the 18th C have sturdy gloves? Seeing you scrape out all those rough chips made me wince all day, John! What an amazing job starting with a huge log and finishing with water transportation. Great post, really love the heavy building posts you put up. 18th C living was no birthday party
I truly love to see the deep respect you all have for the history behind this kind of experimental archaeology. A respect borne of building as our ancestors did, by the wit of your minds, the strength of your backs, and the sweat of your brows (and of course, the wisdom of those who came before you!). Truly inspired work. Congratulations to all of you gentlemen who participated and a big thanks to the kind gentleman who gave you all excellent guidance along the way. Just wonderful to see!
Fantastic stuff, see y'all this weekend n Jon you should make sure you show this year, you missed something special last Saturday night with that new long house! Was like field of dreams we built it n they came!
Don't know if I would have wanted to pull one of those out like that in Florida waters, but that's so cool that they're stored like that. I never knew.
Watching these videos reminds me of watching This Old House at my grandparents’ house as I drifted off to sleep in the middle of the day. Just safe and happy.
Bought Cresswells journal on the back of this. Incredible read. Not my genre of choice but now most certainly is. Living this man's life over a hundred years on. Thank you so much for such a fascinating journey. I'd be incredibly grateful if you have more recommendations in a similar vein.
Neat! Thanks for putting in the effort and sharing with the rest of us! Looking forward to some mini expedition series or something similar in the future. ;)
I loved watching this series when it first aired. It only just now occurs to me: you guys should have saved all that wood-ash for making lye. Could have opened your own line of Townsends Pioneer Soap. -_^
I fish the same areas of Virginia/DC/MD areas in a modern Wilderness Systems Radar 115 pedal drive kayak, but it's really not all that different from these log canoes. The general shape of fishing kayaks (the ones that prioritize stability over hydrodynamics) has returned to this general silhouette
This is so cool. Several fairly old dugouts have been recovered in Lake Mendota in Madison, WI. The first one they found was aged at 3,000 years old. They are linked to the Ho-Chunk people who still live in the area. A few of their effigy mounds still exist around the lakes.
I have always liked canoes. This was a great show. I am turning 65 this year, so don't know if I'll have time to dig out a canoe or make a birch bark one (for you Alaskans) Thanks.
It's pretty crazy to think about the effort that would have gone into making one of these before metal tools came along. I suppose it would be done almost entirely with fire back then.
In a few lakes around where i live, you can find several of these types of canoes still on the bottom. Some a few hundred years old and some lots older. They do preserve well in some clear water lakes. There are finds of 8000 year old ones in Europe. Oldest here (Sweden) so far is about 3000 years, but close to where i live they found a 4500 year old paddle in a bog. At a lake not far from where i live there are at least 3 log-boats/canoes still sitting on the bottom and the water i so clear you can still see them despite its a few meters deep. It’s an amazing feeling to float by just watching them.
Bet you there's router bits the size of Townsend that'd zip that dugout in 3-1/2 seconds. Great video. I love your content. It's always entertaining and informative. Thank you.
A hewing axe would be extremely helpful for working the sides. The cutting edge is offset to one side of the axe head and handle, allowing it to be swung along a surface and take off a chip to flatten a log. There is an old video on Norwegian cabin building that shows and explains it well somewhere on youtube.
This was great! How many hours must it have taken to do all that? That is true labor. But why do they store them underwater? Wouldn't that make them rot? Great episode, guys!
They will rot eventually. but it might take decades or even longer depending on the chemical composition of the water. What they don't want the boat to do is dry out, because wood being a natural material, it will shrink (and possibly warp). If the canoe dries out, there is the potential for the wood to split when re-floated in the water again as it swells at different rates between the top, which is in the air and the hull, that is in the water. Even today, with wooden planked rowing boats and dingys, they need to be kept wet or even sunk from time to time, to keep the wood swollen and make the joints tight. That would be my reasoning, anyway 😃
@@jcorbett9620 So, in the olden days, I suppose it must have been important to know which bodies of water had chemical compositions that would cause problems. Really interesting how people had to work before modern science, just using intuition and a shared knowledge of the area.
Would absolutely love to make one for a...just in case scenario. Unfortunately, I have wetlands near me so can't risk it and the river I have direct access to from my in-laws property has gators. Absolutely love the content, thank you so much!
I love watching this show as a morning show for me the more variation of difference things and trivial/mundane things like this the better! But tell that man or lend him an outfit! It really does something with you all having the clothes on. Dont mind seeing a car now and the but it really does something! Jim L. Sweden.
This reminds me of the Stoneage boats that have been found in archaeological digs here in Denmark. So this way of making a canoe/boat is quite old compared to the many ways wooden boats are constructed today.
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Divers found a 3000-year-old canoe at the bottom of a lake outside Madison, WI recently! It's really so remarkable how ancient this technology is.
Did it float?
The ancient Egyptians among others, were literally sailing 15,000 years ago
*5000
3000 is nothing, dugout canoes go back to the paleolithic
There are few things as fine as mucking about in boats. Archeological digs; boats. A few keen lads n stuff that floats n ropes. Boats. Multi billionaires. Boats.
Did not know they stored them in the water, thank you for posting as always!
Yeah,I e never heard of that. Not even from indigenous tribes
@@bori_borii it really should only be done for longer term storage
Hope you collected all the chips for your hearth. You worked hard making them at least they can help cook you food , make your tea and keep you warm.
There is a dugout on display in Benton, AR. It was found underwater near the town. Once it was dug out of the mud and recovered, it was stored in a pond until conservators could stabilize it. No telling how many years it had been there.
Amazing
So the dugout was dug out.
Never thought I would be fascinated by a canoe build, but like always Townsends videos never cease to amaze.
Very cool! While a Micosukee friend down in Florida described the process, it is still awesome to see it in living color. His tribe favored cypress, which is perfect...since those things grow in the water, they tend not to waterlog or rot for a long time. He said some of them lasted multiple generations. Construction was the same; fire and axes.
Cypress is also a very light wood, which would also make it quick on the water. My folks have a bunch of bald cypress where they live. I'm very tempted to make a dugout now.
@@joshuacourtney3916 please check the legality of cutting one down on their property. Based on some laws, if they are in a wetland, they cannot be cut depending on whether or not they are above or below the high water mark. If you are able to get one done, I'd love to see the result...and I bet I'm not the only one! 👍
@@noahmercy-mann4323 it's their property... their tree. they can do what they want with it.
I admire how they kept full authenticity despite all the back breaking labor this took, thank you Townsend crew for putting this project together and sharing it with the rest of us
Time to use what my Cherokee grandfather would have called fiberglass patch.
What did he use? A mixture of pine pitch and something else?
@@joshuacourtney3916 Its a joke bro. Fiberglass patch is bought at Home Depot. Cherokees did not have home depot. Hence the joke.
@@alaskansummertime cool bro
The series you did on this was all the motivation I needed to build my own dugout. It took a full year and a lot of sweat and blood, but the Kanawha River is being traveled by dugout canoe once again. Thanks Jon.
Man these videos sure make me miss Indiana, haven’t been for years and years, but maybe it’s time. 👍🏻
As a woodworker. To hear that journal entry about hollowing out a black walnut is wild! Amazing
3:47 John looks so HAPPY here. I had a huge grin just seeing it myself.
Jon's tenacity to forge ahead when problems arise is commendable. Just as in the days of past, there was little excuse for not completing what needed to be done.
In the boundary waters in Minnesota you can see giant logs that were cut down with an axe in the water, and they are so well preserved you can still see the axe marks. Amazing how well water can preserve wood.
A friend of mine is a professor at the University of Wisconsin. They've been helping and consulting on the preservation of a 3000 year old dugout canoe brought up from a lake. It's one of the oldest found in the region. Pretty awesome stuff
The lads didn't appear too enthusiasti lol. Smoke break. Interesting to see how slowly the log burned down. Quite a task for you and team John, good job sir.
I didn't think I wanted to watch this again, but apparently I did - perfect for a relaxing Sunday.
I missed most of these episodes, it's really nice to see them together in one video!
The builds you guys do always make me think you all had to be sore. Then I see the smiles during the results and I know it was 100% worth it. Also I feel like lately this is more about history than what the history channel has.
That was so awesome guys! I imagine it was such a surreal experience and filled you all with a great love and gratitude knowing that you guys built this canoe and actually used it. This was such a joy for me to watch!! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Truly an amazing channel with extraordinary people with such a deep profound love of our ancestors!!!!!!! Thank you all again.
I really enjoyed these videos when the first came out. I had dipped in and out of the channel and I was super impressed with the cinematography on this series and the great complimenting soundtrack. Nothing was over used or forced. Glad to see a full length version. Hope you are all well.
This is awesome. Thank you for venerating American history and culture. Many people these days would have us believe our history is wicked and our culture doesn't exist.
🙏This is a monumental program. I can’t thank you enough for going through this build. This is priceless.🙌
The Indians and Cajuns from south Louisiana had no problem making dugouts from cypress trees. Lots of good videos on how they were made and my grandfather had one that he used for trapping the swamps behind his and his wife’s homestead. I used it to duck hunt in it and i was a little heavy for it at 170 lbs. My lab would not stay put in the bow and led to some hilarious sinking in the mud. Water was on one foot or less in the duck ponds. My boss had one at his camp in central louisiana. You had to keep water in them to keep the bottom from cracking but so there was always an inch of water in the bottom. The trees they used were ancient trees that had been fallen by storms .
Loving these long format ‘complete’ videos! ❤
I worked as a historical interpreter at a fur trade living history site and paddled a large birch bark canoe on several occasions. It took on water and became significantly heavier when we took it back to the canoe shed on the shoulder of four guys.
I enjoyed the installments way back when, and really enjoyed this reprised compilation. Since the series was first uploaded some years ago, I've begun following a channel called Working Horses with Jim. He lumbers with draft horses. Probably the main reason he hauls lumber with draft horses is that he can access places that machines can't. He can go into heavily forested land, maybe at most having to cut a trail just wide enough for the horses and cart, whereas machines would need wider trails with more disruption to the forest. It's got me wondering if draft horses could have hauled that log section out of the pit? That would be interesting to see! But it'll remain an unanswered question. Fun to wonder about, anyway.
I bet ya'll had some good blisters after that was done! Awesome project. We have a dug-out in the local museum that my great great uncle made back in the 20's or 30's and it was used as a working boat on the river by my grandmother and others when they were growing up.
The Vikings sunk their boats to preserve them as well. This is an ancient practice indeed. Fascinating!
Now I'm really glad we have bamboo in the tropics, making a raft seems so much easier! Immense work you guys put in there really awesome video!
I'd forgotten how amazing the video was for this build, especially the first few burns on the log and shots of the finished boat moving on the water. The folks that hollowed this out are just plain amazing - Superman's got nothing on this bunch!
Didn't people in the 18th C have sturdy gloves? Seeing you scrape out all those rough chips made me wince all day, John! What an amazing job starting with a huge log and finishing with water transportation.
Great post, really love the heavy building posts you put up. 18th C living was no birthday party
They had tough hands.
I truly love to see the deep respect you all have for the history behind this kind of experimental archaeology. A respect borne of building as our ancestors did, by the wit of your minds, the strength of your backs, and the sweat of your brows (and of course, the wisdom of those who came before you!). Truly inspired work. Congratulations to all of you gentlemen who participated and a big thanks to the kind gentleman who gave you all excellent guidance along the way. Just wonderful to see!
reading about this process and seeing it done are two different things entirely! WOW
Reminds you how much Townsends puts into showing the labor of 18th century life.
What an awesome tv episode! Great idea to film how to do stuff like cooking, building houses, making canoes!
Fantastic stuff, see y'all this weekend n Jon you should make sure you show this year, you missed something special last Saturday night with that new long house! Was like field of dreams we built it n they came!
I'm reading "Undaunted Courage," about the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and they discuss building dugout canoes, but now I actually get to see it!
Don't know if I would have wanted to pull one of those out like that in Florida waters, but that's so cool that they're stored like that. I never knew.
Good afternoon from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing this living history videos with me
Thanks Aaron, I know you put a lot of time into these!
Love the cooking stuff but the new/renewed content with all kinds of history is amazing!
Watching these videos reminds me of watching This Old House at my grandparents’ house as I drifted off to sleep in the middle of the day. Just safe and happy.
Canoes don't really look that fancy, so I never thought making one was so much work. Thank you for putting in all the time and hard labour :)
with the job being as particular as it is, it is amazing the natives still had plenty of trees to spare.
Bought Cresswells journal on the back of this. Incredible read. Not my genre of choice but now most certainly is. Living this man's life over a hundred years on. Thank you so much for such a fascinating journey. I'd be incredibly grateful if you have more recommendations in a similar vein.
I think these canoe episodes are excellent. Thanks for sharing this. It's awesome. Cheers!
Hi Dwayne. And it's great seeing them all in one awesome video, too!
@@rosemcguinn5301 Very true. I love this channel, because I learn so much. Cheers, Rose!
Neat!
Thanks for putting in the effort and sharing with the rest of us!
Looking forward to some mini expedition series or something similar in the future. ;)
Fantastic stuff, as always! Love how it turned out (which is absolutely GORGEOUS 🌟)
I take my hat off to you and your crew. That's incredible
This was quite therapeutic to watch. A lot of hard work there, well done guys ! 👍
Amazing to see it all in one long go. It was a great project and I think the first set of videos which drew me into the channel.
John living the dream. Love every episode and enjoy watching them again and again.
There's been some recent finds of old canoes up here in Wisconsin. I think the last one I heard about might have been 3000 years old. Amazing.
I loved watching this series when it first aired. It only just now occurs to me: you guys should have saved all that wood-ash for making lye. Could have opened your own line of Townsends Pioneer Soap. -_^
I got to try out a native dugout canoe in Panama, it was quite stable and easy to paddle. I love this compilation. Thanks, Townsends! 🛶🥰👍
simply amazing, this is real living history!
I imagine they may have used a metal ruler on a wooden handle back in the day as that means they could check the bottom when the fire was burning
Just amazing program, Mr Townsend
I fish the same areas of Virginia/DC/MD areas in a modern Wilderness Systems Radar 115 pedal drive kayak, but it's really not all that different from these log canoes. The general shape of fishing kayaks (the ones that prioritize stability over hydrodynamics) has returned to this general silhouette
My arms ached just watching you guys do that! I can't even imagine how you guys felt each evening, and for the rest of the week!
This is so cool. Several fairly old dugouts have been recovered in Lake Mendota in Madison, WI. The first one they found was aged at 3,000 years old. They are linked to the Ho-Chunk people who still live in the area. A few of their effigy mounds still exist around the lakes.
This deserves waaaay more views
Omg man…that looks SUPER laborious!!Wow. I can’t imagine doing that. Very impressive guys.
It's cool to see you on TH-cam Eric, I used to hang out with you at Matt's in Cromwell, miss ya bud
I saw the video when it first released. Thanks for sharing again.
That was a great adventure! Thank you so much.
Long time viewer. Don't comment often though. Really enjoy your channel. Happy anniversary 🎊 🎉 🥳 🍻
little things like this that you dont even think about, is why its so cool to learn about it
I have always liked canoes. This was a great show. I am turning 65 this year, so don't know if I'll have time to dig out a canoe or make a birch bark one (for you Alaskans) Thanks.
Keep up your guy's great efforts! Much appreciated on our end. 🙏🏻
We are going to remove everything that is not a boat. That statement was so straightforward that it made me chuckle.
Birch bark canoes are like thorobreds, dugouts are like draft horses. Very cool work folks.
It's pretty crazy to think about the effort that would have gone into making one of these before metal tools came along. I suppose it would be done almost entirely with fire back then.
In a few lakes around where i live, you can find several of these types of canoes still on the bottom. Some a few hundred years old and some lots older. They do preserve well in some clear water lakes.
There are finds of 8000 year old ones in Europe. Oldest here (Sweden) so far is about 3000 years, but close to where i live they found a 4500 year old paddle in a bog.
At a lake not far from where i live there are at least 3 log-boats/canoes still sitting on the bottom and the water i so clear you can still see them despite its a few meters deep. It’s an amazing feeling to float by just watching them.
That is some hard work! Well done, Gentlemen!
This makes one appreciate power tools and mass production.
it's truly remarkable what you've done, Townsends
In Robinson Crusoe, his first dugout was made too far from the water, and he could not move it.
Thank you for bringing a piece of North American history alive. 😊
Bet you there's router bits the size of Townsend that'd zip that dugout in 3-1/2 seconds. Great video. I love your content. It's always entertaining and informative. Thank you.
Remarkable filming, inspiring really.
Townsends remains the level best of historytube.
A hewing axe would be extremely helpful for working the sides. The cutting edge is offset to one side of the axe head and handle, allowing it to be swung along a surface and take off a chip to flatten a log. There is an old video on Norwegian cabin building that shows and explains it well somewhere on youtube.
This was great! How many hours must it have taken to do all that? That is true labor. But why do they store them underwater? Wouldn't that make them rot? Great episode, guys!
Yes I was wondering about the underwater thing as well
They will rot eventually. but it might take decades or even longer depending on the chemical composition of the water. What they don't want the boat to do is dry out, because wood being a natural material, it will shrink (and possibly warp). If the canoe dries out, there is the potential for the wood to split when re-floated in the water again as it swells at different rates between the top, which is in the air and the hull, that is in the water. Even today, with wooden planked rowing boats and dingys, they need to be kept wet or even sunk from time to time, to keep the wood swollen and make the joints tight. That would be my reasoning, anyway 😃
To keep from getting stolen. After you do all the work making a dugout, a lazy person would avoid the hard work. A lot like cattle rustling.
@@geraldmiller5260 Lol!
@@jcorbett9620 So, in the olden days, I suppose it must have been important to know which bodies of water had chemical compositions that would cause problems. Really interesting how people had to work before modern science, just using intuition and a shared knowledge of the area.
Would absolutely love to make one for a...just in case scenario. Unfortunately, I have wetlands near me so can't risk it and the river I have direct access to from my in-laws property has gators. Absolutely love the content, thank you so much!
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true. I'm half crazy chopping this dug out canoe.
Can't get the log out of the pit, you say??
mule team- "Here. Hold our small beers"
Made my day! Friends like you guys are very precious ✨💎✨
And my friend in Georgia would love your hand drill skill.
Totally wish I could work with you guys. Reliving history is so rewarding. Its important to not only know about the past but to understand it.
Great looking canoe guys!
One of my ancestors was a canoe maker in the early 1800s great seeing the process, they used them alot to move goods prior to the civil war
Next time on Townsends, how to hang an Axe handle, sharpen axes, pick axes and traditional blister treatments.
This was incredible. You guys are so inspiring.
I love watching this show as a morning show for me the more variation of difference things and trivial/mundane things like this the better!
But tell that man or lend him an outfit! It really does something with you all having the clothes on.
Dont mind seeing a car now and the but it really does something!
Jim L.
Sweden.
Lewis and Clark always made their dug outs from cotton wood!
I haven't watched the canoe videos in a while so this was fun to see.
This reminds me of the Stoneage boats that have been found in archaeological digs here in Denmark.
So this way of making a canoe/boat is quite old compared to the many ways wooden boats are constructed today.
I had no idea that's how they were made, insane!