Mine are from Roman Catholic Gear, called the “combat rosary”, based on the WWI type. They were blessed at a traditional Latin Mass, and, after bouncing around in my pocket for a couple of years now, seem to be holding up well.
I enjoy your flavor of content, Sir! Looking forward to more. I have ten pallets of sugar pine shakes to use next summer for a restoration project here in Oregon. We used an old bowling pin for a mallet.
Thanks! Editing these videos is more painful to me than the actual work I do and it’s great to know it’s appreciated. A bowling pin for a club is pure genius. I just take any random stick of hardwood, shape a crude handle on it, and use it until it wears out. Then it goes into the wood stove. Sometime soon, I’m going to experiment with poplar for shingles. I’ve read that it and pine was very popular years ago and it’s definitely worth investigating.
Impressive content, Hiraeth Restorations. Looking forward to seeing your next upload from you. I smashed that thumbs up button on your video. Keep up the fantastic work! Your insights on the historical regulations for shingles were fascinating. How do you think modern materials could influence traditional methods in shingle making?
Thanks, man, I appreciate it! I’m hoping that there’s a realization that the species of wood used for the shingles becomes just one of three equally important phases in production. Historically, people were complaining about the bad quality of sawn shingles within twenty years of sawn shingles becoming available. With modern materials, cedar seems to be the favored wood these days but with so many roofs failing after twenty years or less, I’m hoping that people will start to realize that the material is not a crutch for bad production and installation methods. I could go on for hours on this subject and maybe I will rant about it in a future video lol
I enjoy your flavor of content, Sir! I have ten pallets of sugar pine shakes we've slit for a restoration project. Used bowling pins as a mallet. We also knocked the outer layer and pith off before splitting. My guess is that works with larger diameter trees though.
You’re right. I always take the sapwood and pith off for anything that’s over about twenty eight inches in diameter. For smaller logs, it seems to be easier and less wasteful to do it after riving out the shingles. That could depend on the wood species I’m working with, too.
Really well made video! Riving can really be brutal if the timber isn't cooperative. Greenwood carving can be quite pleasant. Unless you have to do it to hundreds of shingles haha. Great work!
Thank ya! My editing is improving, I think. Just need to work on the audio more next time. From now on, I’ll probably stick to doing stuff like shingles in the winter. A perfect activity for when my field work slows down. Nice indoors work.
@HiraethRestorations I find riving to be much more enjoyable when it isn't hot outside anyway. And that goes for most rough work with timber. But I have the extra fat of a beluga whale. Glad you're making more videos again man. It would be a disservice to future people to not keep these sorts of things alive. It's too bad there were no youtubers in 1874 to learn from haha.
Yeah, I took about eighteen months off to get a better camera, learn some good editing software, and figure out what exactly I wanted to do with this channel. Just seven hundred hours of watch time to go and I’ll be monetized. Glad to see you’re still moving with your channel!
@HiraethRestorations Your channel is rightfully growing my man! It's great to see and it's deserved. Unfortunately thumbnails and titles can be more important than the actual quality of the video. I know this from experience with my own bad videos.
This was a fun project. Can’t wait to make more shingles! Feel free to join our livestreams every Friday evening, 6 PM EST.
I hit the subscribe button when you pulled out the rosary and started praying!
My rosaries are always close. I need all the help I can get sometimes.
@@HiraethMasonry I think I have the same one as you; the WW1 battle beads from rugged rosaries.
Mine are from Roman Catholic Gear, called the “combat rosary”, based on the WWI type. They were blessed at a traditional Latin Mass, and, after bouncing around in my pocket for a couple of years now, seem to be holding up well.
I enjoy your flavor of content, Sir! Looking forward to more.
I have ten pallets of sugar pine shakes to use next summer for a restoration project here in Oregon. We used an old bowling pin for a mallet.
Thanks! Editing these videos is more painful to me than the actual work I do and it’s great to know it’s appreciated. A bowling pin for a club is pure genius. I just take any random stick of hardwood, shape a crude handle on it, and use it until it wears out. Then it goes into the wood stove. Sometime soon, I’m going to experiment with poplar for shingles. I’ve read that it and pine was very popular years ago and it’s definitely worth investigating.
Impressive content, Hiraeth Restorations. Looking forward to seeing your next upload from you. I smashed that thumbs up button on your video. Keep up the fantastic work! Your insights on the historical regulations for shingles were fascinating. How do you think modern materials could influence traditional methods in shingle making?
Thanks, man, I appreciate it! I’m hoping that there’s a realization that the species of wood used for the shingles becomes just one of three equally important phases in production. Historically, people were complaining about the bad quality of sawn shingles within twenty years of sawn shingles becoming available. With modern materials, cedar seems to be the favored wood these days but with so many roofs failing after twenty years or less, I’m hoping that people will start to realize that the material is not a crutch for bad production and installation methods. I could go on for hours on this subject and maybe I will rant about it in a future video lol
What a great video, I enjoy it very much. Thank you for taking your time to share it
No problem. I enjoyed doing it. Taking my usual boring work and adding a bit of humor makes it all worthwhile.
I enjoy your flavor of content, Sir!
I have ten pallets of sugar pine shakes we've slit for a restoration project. Used bowling pins as a mallet. We also knocked the outer layer and pith off before splitting. My guess is that works with larger diameter trees though.
You’re right. I always take the sapwood and pith off for anything that’s over about twenty eight inches in diameter. For smaller logs, it seems to be easier and less wasteful to do it after riving out the shingles. That could depend on the wood species I’m working with, too.
Really well made video! Riving can really be brutal if the timber isn't cooperative. Greenwood carving can be quite pleasant. Unless you have to do it to hundreds of shingles haha. Great work!
Thank ya! My editing is improving, I think. Just need to work on the audio more next time. From now on, I’ll probably stick to doing stuff like shingles in the winter. A perfect activity for when my field work slows down. Nice indoors work.
@HiraethRestorations I find riving to be much more enjoyable when it isn't hot outside anyway. And that goes for most rough work with timber. But I have the extra fat of a beluga whale.
Glad you're making more videos again man. It would be a disservice to future people to not keep these sorts of things alive. It's too bad there were no youtubers in 1874 to learn from haha.
Yeah, I took about eighteen months off to get a better camera, learn some good editing software, and figure out what exactly I wanted to do with this channel. Just seven hundred hours of watch time to go and I’ll be monetized. Glad to see you’re still moving with your channel!
@HiraethRestorations Your channel is rightfully growing my man! It's great to see and it's deserved. Unfortunately thumbnails and titles can be more important than the actual quality of the video. I know this from experience with my own bad videos.
sign me up,best job description i ever heard ,lol
I probably glorified it a bit much lol
lol,i come with my own tools too
In Europe shingles are being made from pine not oak wood... They used to cover finished roof with tar sometimes too...
Pine was popular in the United States, too, at least early on.
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