Building an 18th Century Barn: Full Build!

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  • @shepherd8171
    @shepherd8171 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +319

    I love how this channel has evolved from a historical cooking show to a living history experiment

    • @buttonvalley
      @buttonvalley 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      Actually, the channel started as a way for them to feature the products they sell in their catalog and online. The cooking videos came from featuring their period correct items used for cooking. They then branched out into other areas of historical interests. But their main business is still selling period clothing and supplies for living history.

    • @RolloTonéBrownTown
      @RolloTonéBrownTown 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@buttonvalleyhuh it's almost like we're living in a morally bankrupt capitalistic society that is reaching its inevitable implosion. Keep telling it like it is!

  • @AR-ed3xw
    @AR-ed3xw 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +137

    The construction videos you guys put out are probably my favorite thing on youtube! Thanks for the hard work, folks!

    • @Martial-Mat
      @Martial-Mat 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      By a country mile. Anything out on the homestead is just incredible. Construction, building, smithing, cooking - love it all when it's out there. It feels so much more authentic and closer to reason I watch than content recorded back in the house, especially since Ryan and the computer guy left.

    • @IceLynne
      @IceLynne 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I really enjoy it too ☺

  • @Rene.Rondeau
    @Rene.Rondeau 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    What a staggering amount of work. Our ancestors sure didn't have it easy. Great video.

    • @annalorree
      @annalorree 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      A modern building is a staggering amount of work, too. The difference is that we share that work out to machines and to other people in exchange for money transfers. Bring all the farmed out work together, take away the modern mill equipment, and it would be like this.

    • @RolloTonéBrownTown
      @RolloTonéBrownTown 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@annalorreevery neat Anna thank you. Have you read about skyscraper construction? It's actually very interesting, complex stuff

  • @MC-810
    @MC-810 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    Favorite Sunday morning, activity… Cuppa coffee, and the latest drop from Townsends. ☕️

  • @homesteadontheridge
    @homesteadontheridge 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This barn is gorgeous in person. I don't live too far from the David Crockett Birthplace. It really is a magical area.

  • @lenaoxton3999
    @lenaoxton3999 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    John Marston: "Barn'll take the three of us six months to build!"
    Uncle: "Oh, you don't build a barn, dummy... what do you think this is, 1785?!"
    Jon Townsend: "Yes!"

  • @dwaynewladyka577
    @dwaynewladyka577 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    Why are farmers so good at what they do? Because they are always outstanding in their fields.

  • @dwaynewladyka577
    @dwaynewladyka577 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    It is very interesting to see how farmers built things in North America, long ago. As someone who is originally from a very large farm in Alberta, Canada, it's amazing to see how far we have come with farming. This was great. Cheers!

  • @Mariner311
    @Mariner311 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    MAN, those Poplar logs are straight and beautiful. In the 1980s did several cabins in the Sierra Nevada mountains - we were blessed with excellent CEDAR for foundations, and good Doug Fir trees for the primary logs - the fir was difficult to peel, but we got good draw-knives eventually that made it easier. One of the cabins was STILL standing in 2012, but then came apart over the next few winters due to a lack of maintenance.
    OH - and we were also blessed to have a TON of Cedar to split for shingles - lots of fun with a Froe.

  • @winnerscreed6767
    @winnerscreed6767 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Thank you Townsends for this video! It was great to see the reality that women worked with the men building everything that was needed. It wasn't just that women cooked,sewed,washed, cleaned and raised the children. It was much more of an equal partnership then than now because they really only had each other to count on.
    At first I did think it was Townsend's crew building a barn. That would have been even better because I know most of the regular people in the videos from watching for at least 3yrs.
    No matter what content you provide for us it is always Top Notch!

    • @miggy7165
      @miggy7165 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Do not underestimate the importance of traditional women's work. Society recognized how important the women's role was. Watchung the children, while cooking from scratch, growing the vegetables and herbs, preserving food, spinning wool, knitting, sewing clothes by hand...that was just as necessary as chopping down a tree or plowing a field.

    • @winnerscreed6767
      @winnerscreed6767 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@miggy7165 of course,it is. What I meant was women were not strictly tied to that role. There was much more felaxability of who does what than what we have been taught to believe.

    • @JoeJaJoeJoe
      @JoeJaJoeJoe 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@winnerscreed6767 Great point. It's a big reason why women got the right to vote in the Western USA before the urban East Coast

  • @Liam.Lacoste
    @Liam.Lacoste 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I really love these build episodes! I am fascinated by how our ancestors survived, it's really amazing what they could do together. Thank you for preserving this knowledge, and for sharing with us.

    • @johnt.4947
      @johnt.4947 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well said!

  • @Massive_Legend_Here
    @Massive_Legend_Here 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Waking up on my birthday to see a new townsends video is awesome

  • @dragonslyer74
    @dragonslyer74 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I am a huge student of history and I love shows like yours.And I caught your channel many , many years ago and I have to say you never fail to impress and make me happy

  • @ioflottv
    @ioflottv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Still love the wholesomeness of this channel

  • @jasonpalacios1363
    @jasonpalacios1363 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This video is excellent and this should be learned in schools to make the children understand the struggles these Pioneers had to go through just so we can live in the US in peace and honor these people for their hard work and dedication.

  • @IronSight1776
    @IronSight1776 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Love what ya'll do. Thank you 🇺🇸

  • @serenepeacefulrelaxingmusi3874
    @serenepeacefulrelaxingmusi3874 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Beautiful building and what a great exercise in teamwork like people normally did in the old days to accomplish these wonders.

  • @StrandedLifeform
    @StrandedLifeform 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great video. Very interesting to see how a cabin or homestead was actually built in the pioneer days, nothing like what we see in TV/movies.
    If I were 30 years younger and in better health, I would be out there learning how to do this, since it's a good skill to have if one is ever in a situation they might need to build a long term shelter, one would at least have the basic knowledge.

  • @Martial-Mat
    @Martial-Mat 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I'm a 21st century guy through and through, but I'll stop everything for a Townsends build video.

  • @throwback336
    @throwback336 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What great footage. So glad you were able to upload it. Thanks for posting.

  • @tinawood5060
    @tinawood5060 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I would truly love to not only work on something like this but to live it as well.

  • @petrimurphy6152
    @petrimurphy6152 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Greetings from the off grid cabin in Ohio. I used the same saddle notch in my cabin. Fun build. Still stands after 40 years. Wish I could have been there to help. Thanks for the video..

  • @cmitchell7347
    @cmitchell7347 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fabulous video and especially appreciate the insights and enthusiasm shared by the various participants. As a lifelong crafter, always have respect for anything handcrafted, made from scratch, using basic materials and tools. Very inspiring. 😊

  • @ConLustig
    @ConLustig 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    New build!!!!! I know these projects are a lot of work and I appreciate all the educational content you create but I do love these building/constructing videos so much! Thank you guys:)

  • @rebeccaback3287
    @rebeccaback3287 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the dedication of building this 18 the century barn! I know how hard it is! Learned something new! David Back.

  • @gma5587
    @gma5587 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow! Such workmanship! Good to see the ladies working right along with the men. 😊 Wondering if they had work gloves back then 🤔. My hands hurt just watching 🫣. Thank you for a wonderful video 👍🏻

  • @michaelmanning5379
    @michaelmanning5379 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was at an AWI re-enactment at Historic Brattonsville in NC. They have a barn like this. The design was new to me. I thought it was some kind of corn crib. It is very satisfying to find out the actual purpose of the bays.

  • @Solhai
    @Solhai 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There's a log cabin circa 1700 near me that I look at with new light after this video and the cabin videos. It's the Downingtown Log House - what a simple marvel that makes the tasks I do today all the more easy to accomplish.
    From the wiki "The house was constructed using 62 chestnut, oak, and white pine logs, all still extant. The roof is cedar-shingled and the exterior whitewashed. The log corners are saddle notched, characteristic of English Quaker log construction, though there are Swedish derivatives such as a slide-boarded window on the south wall and horizontal planking on the gable ends."

  • @richardparsons7012
    @richardparsons7012 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for sharing guys. Lovely watching. My only criticism from a carpentey point of view is the saws. You want to try to use all the teeth as you go at it. As you re sharpen through the life of the saw, you will waste good material from the teeth at the ends. Or, end up with a hollow saw, if you only sharpen what needs to be sharpened.

  • @Malohta
    @Malohta 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In a crazy world, Townsends is an oasis we can escape to.

  • @gitoutover
    @gitoutover 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful in so many ways. Your ancestors are surely proud of each of you. You honor them.

  • @jamesvatter5729
    @jamesvatter5729 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really good stuff. Thank you, Townsend's, for finding and sharing these projects.

  • @Noahkam_13
    @Noahkam_13 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ve been waiting not so patiently for a new 18th century building video. Lol… Thank you Jon and the team at Townsends!

  • @87slashers34
    @87slashers34 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m so glad to see you make more construction videos instead of food stuff. Iv been waiting for a while glad it’s out now. Great job guys.

  • @Q-BinTom
    @Q-BinTom 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love love love it y’all keep bring history to life.

  • @forcivilizaton5021
    @forcivilizaton5021 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just when I thought my day off wouldn’t get any better. Thank you Townsends.

  • @johnt.4947
    @johnt.4947 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank-you for another special experience.

  • @detroitredneckdetroitredne6674
    @detroitredneckdetroitredne6674 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow spectacular job Brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and for taking us on your adventures through time and history GOD-BLESS brother and hello from romulus Michigan 12 miles west of dearborn ville

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    All this done without fancy or power tools. Our ancestors were awesome!

  • @SashaXXY
    @SashaXXY 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome! Thank you!

  • @timothyrussell1179
    @timothyrussell1179 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    Can we get a reality TV spinoff where contestants have only 18th century tools to survive with? Wheoever quits last gets 40 acres and a mule.

    • @TemperedMedia
      @TemperedMedia 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      All well and good but winning all that sounds like a hefty bill for the recipient. I'd love to have it, but taxes and the cost to build a sustainable lifestyle on the land would be astronomical for a poor chap like me.
      How far removed we are from the 18th century...

    • @IronSight1776
      @IronSight1776 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I'm in let's do it

    • @braidenstudios3897
      @braidenstudios3897 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm in lets do this

    • @KadeStringer2.0
      @KadeStringer2.0 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TemperedMediayou can find land that no one owns

    • @mjung7331
      @mjung7331 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      will there still be wi fi

  • @EmMiller-wu3dy
    @EmMiller-wu3dy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was fascinating. So much respect for their dedication to hard work. Thank you for the vid.

  • @chrisjemmettreadtheword
    @chrisjemmettreadtheword 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey Jamie!!! I knew I should have moved down there years ago! Great video, keep on doing what you do best my friend!

  • @MarkWYoung-ky4uc
    @MarkWYoung-ky4uc 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love that double pin barn. I saw on just like it last fall at Horne Creek living history farm.

  • @charlesa.robinson7722
    @charlesa.robinson7722 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Southerners, salt of the Earth, good family people.

  • @bobthomas4514
    @bobthomas4514 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @IceLynne
    @IceLynne 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was pleasurable viewing! I especially enjoyed that I didn't recognize any of the building team ☺

  • @abrunson9022
    @abrunson9022 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    very nice, i built a 12 x12 log with loft with friend two axes and a hatchet. used a saw to cut out door.

  • @Yt-hb4wh
    @Yt-hb4wh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Awesome video!

  • @Mike_Greentea
    @Mike_Greentea 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Those are some sharp axes 🪓 Safety first!

  • @LindaSchreiber
    @LindaSchreiber 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This structure reminds me so muc h of older homesteads where the people would live in one 'cell' and the animals would live in the other.
    More sealed off, but the concepts are so similar.

  • @Nannaof10
    @Nannaof10 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow! Impressive like a giant set of Lincoln Logs you have to make from scratch 👌

  • @stephengent9974
    @stephengent9974 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Saw only one hewing axe here. It is a far better tool for shaping wood than the rest of the axes I saw being used. There were many shapes of axe head, for many specific tasks, which settlers would have had. I also think they would have improvised saw horses to save their backs.

  • @branch_preparedness
    @branch_preparedness 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Outstanding!!! Something to be proud of.

  • @RebeccaandCharlieStewart
    @RebeccaandCharlieStewart 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That’s really neat

  • @TikiRainbows
    @TikiRainbows 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Everything made by hand is the best

  • @abcstardust
    @abcstardust 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love it! Love it! Very well thought out!

  • @amadeusamwater
    @amadeusamwater 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    All those wood chips and leftover pieces can be used in the fireplace.

  • @beth8775
    @beth8775 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very cool to see. I do wish you had shown the making of the doorways though.

  • @Havenwyck_Media
    @Havenwyck_Media 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love these videos on building up your homestead.

  • @acceler9
    @acceler9 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    @17:45 That looks like the best tasting watermelon ever!

  • @jacobagnew8111
    @jacobagnew8111 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lol I love the period chainsaw at 0:40

  • @TextileGeorge
    @TextileGeorge 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    beautiful build, beautiful accents and beautiful messages

  • @robzinawarriorprincess1318
    @robzinawarriorprincess1318 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome!!

  • @floridaprepper751
    @floridaprepper751 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice to see it was not forgotten about.

  • @Trailerwizard69
    @Trailerwizard69 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    these guys are the real deal

  • @oldheritageforge
    @oldheritageforge 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love history and I love you guys, keep it up

  • @bayouknivesandoutdoors501
    @bayouknivesandoutdoors501 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent makes me wish i had gotten into that when younger

  • @TrollDragomir
    @TrollDragomir 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    0:50 John Hammond at it again, this time it's Colonial America Park

  • @michaelleewagaman301
    @michaelleewagaman301 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You need to setup a video on how more people can join this movement and events.

  • @jubayerahamed5437
    @jubayerahamed5437 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Big fan mr Townsend,from 🇧🇩

  • @jimbob3332
    @jimbob3332 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    8:23 imagine the wine you could open with that

  • @jerrygodzilla
    @jerrygodzilla 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    5 minutes gang, great stuff Townsends

  • @clintdouglas5756
    @clintdouglas5756 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Question is there a reason for the long tale blouses or is it the style of the day???

  • @jnorth3341
    @jnorth3341 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is 18th century but up were I am I can still see cabins from the 20th century Tanana Valley Gold Rush (bit after the more well known Yukon Gold Rush) and the early miners were building things the same way, they had a cast iron stove by that point but everything else was the same. A lot of moss roofs up here, as well as moss used as chinking between the logs.

  • @Jalibababa
    @Jalibababa 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing as always

  • @davea6314
    @davea6314 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The funniest barn construction scene is in the Amish Paradise music video parody by Weird Al where a barn wall falls towards him but he doesn't get hurt because an open window saves him. Lol 🤣

    • @TemperedMedia
      @TemperedMedia 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      In the video, they're raising the support beams via rope and the beam structure falls. There were no walls or windows, as those aren't added until the barn is placed into its foundation.

    • @jodycarter7308
      @jodycarter7308 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's an homage to Buster Keaton.

    • @davea6314
      @davea6314 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jodycarter7308 Oh

  • @Bigfoot1962
    @Bigfoot1962 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great historical archaelogy

  • @RolloTonéBrownTown
    @RolloTonéBrownTown 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where are the guys? I guess with so many people, you could hang back and focus on capturing this terrific footage. Pretty neat

  • @scottdunkirk8198
    @scottdunkirk8198 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Doing living history is the way to reach and educate

  • @debraroberts1496
    @debraroberts1496 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Enjoyed this much🌻

  • @PJSproductions97
    @PJSproductions97 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'd love to have more information on those draw vices!

  • @ImmortalLemon
    @ImmortalLemon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yo let’s gooooooooooo another big project!!!!

  • @kathyk479
    @kathyk479 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Poplar has a lot of water in it! Do you cure the logs first?

  • @debbralehrman5957
    @debbralehrman5957 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember you going to film .👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @thexalon
    @thexalon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    8:50 Ist das nicht eine Schnitzelbank?

  • @michaelleewagaman301
    @michaelleewagaman301 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    And, historically these are the type of people fought the british. A super power in the world.

  • @debk9984
    @debk9984 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know it's rustic but it's so beautiful! Well done everyone and thank you for letting us see the hard work you put into this barn! Just amazing! 👏🫶💪

  • @torchandbucket4214
    @torchandbucket4214 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm genuinely interested - please can you give me an idea of how many injuries there were during the build. Thanks 👍

  • @rackets001
    @rackets001 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So eventually do the spaces between logs get filled in with mud/hay mixture? The wind/cold would be pretty brutal with wide open holes like that.

  • @paulwilson8672
    @paulwilson8672 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was great!

  • @Jabogers
    @Jabogers 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm not gonna lie, seeing Ryan holding a modern tool at 0:36, same with that man in the background using a chainsaw at 0:39 in the top right is for some reason so funny to me.

  • @Jason4Star
    @Jason4Star 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    19:50 Regarding the gentleman speaking here and his comments - I hope I get the chance to do these things, but now I am poor and I have to work. I have a wife and children who depend on me, but one day when they are grown and out of the house and I do not have to support so many mouths, I think I will attempt a project like this. God bless you.

  • @TheToddMS
    @TheToddMS 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome channel thank you!

  • @kimfleury
    @kimfleury 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Imagine not knowing that there are mechanized ways to accomplish that work. It's a luxury knowing there are faster, easier ways to get it done, but choosing not to. And not a bad luxury atall.

  • @flintandball6093
    @flintandball6093 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Are we going to get a video of you using the smokehouse?

  • @northwoodstrapper8778
    @northwoodstrapper8778 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome video

  • @chrismusix5669
    @chrismusix5669 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Raise this barn, raise this barn
    One, two, three, four
    Together, we can raise this barn
    One, two, three, four
    Up, up, up, go the beams
    Hammer those joints, work in teams
    Turn 'em round quick by the right elbow
    Grab a new partner, here we go
    Raise this barn, raise this barn
    One, two, three, four
    Together, we can raise this barn
    One, two, three, four
    Finish the frame, recycling wood
    Workin' hard, you're doin' good
    Turn 'em round quick by the right elbow
    Grab your partner, here we go
    Raise this barn, oh, raise this barn
    One, two, three, four
    Together, we can raise this barn
    One, two, three, four
    Slats of wood come off the ground
    Hold 'em up and nail 'em down
    Turn 'em round quick by the left elbow
    Grab a new partner, here we go
    Bow to your partner, circle right
    Get down if you're scared of heights
    Forward back and twirl around
    The barn's gonna be the best in town
    Raise this barn, raise this barn
    One, two, three, four
    Together, we can raise this barn
    One, two, three, four
    Take your brushes, young and old
    Together, paint it, bright and bold
    Turn 'em round quick by the left elbow
    Grab a new partner, here we go
    We raised this barn, we raised this barn
    Yes, we did
    Together we sure raised this barn
    Yes, we did
    Being together counts the most
    We all came here from coast to coast
    All we need to strive to be
    Is part of the Townsend family

  • @CandaceAustin-bv2wo
    @CandaceAustin-bv2wo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful❤

  • @natepotter1709
    @natepotter1709 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this building recipe is good, tastes like wood though for some reason compared to other recipes jon has made