Dave, I'm in my late 60's and a lot of what you show I have seen my father or grand father do. But you have shown me a lot of things I have not seen too. Keep up the good work, some of that knowledge will and is still needed,. my father always used green wood for handles and when they dried out he would wedge them. We used homemade handles and augers right up until he died. My grandfather made wooden axe handles, hoe handles, paddles and anything else that people wanted, and made money at it and ran the farm. So it is a very valuable skill. Hope it never gets lost. He even showed us kids how to make alder whistles. Now there is something you could do on a program, an alder whistle.
Hey Dave, Love this series! been doing a bit of this green woodworking off and on for a few years now. Through time i've come to nearly the same kit as you have been building here in the series. I was impressed by your foot vise and made one too. I added a "plank treadle" to the foot loop of the vise (which makes it ever so slightly easier/faster to use) and I secured the "hinge" endof the clamping arm with a rope tied into a taught line hitch. Make for quick adjustment when dealing with a larger project piece. Keep up the awesome work -Robert
This is the type of content I had hoped to get on the PathfinderTv. Skills based and less vlog. The original goal set for volume was hard to maintain. Love what you are doing. Keep sharing knowledge. I am still eager to learn.
For the permanent homestead look into boring machines, specifically the Boss Double Eagle. Also of note, the feed screw on auger bits come in various thread pitches, finer are best for hard wood while courser are for softer woods, the feed screw determines how thick a chip the cutter will cut. Great alternative for a shaving horse.
Good stuff... I'll try and find a Millers handle... Never come across one in all the garage sales and flea I've gone to, but I wasn't looking for that specifically so I may have overlooked an opportunity. Had to edit my comment as I spoke too soon lol... the foot vice is brilliant! Another project I'll undertake this week: Thanks Dave.
I always used a wooden mallet for building my duck blinds out in the water because they float if dropped. We'd use cedar poles and build on the edges of the tall bull rushes. Good video!
The brace will accept small drill bits too.You can drill holes in steel, you are limited to light work, because the round drill bit does not hold as tight as a modern chuck.
On your mallet if you don't want the head to come off, I saw a chair maker at a show and he dried the horizontal pieces in a cardboard box lined with aluminum foil and a light bulb at the bottom. He said that when the dried horizontal pieces were mortised into a green vertical piece. The dry piece expanded and the green piece shrunk. He said that locked the joint together and would not come apart. So I thought a dry handle and a green head and that joint would lock together and not come apart.
Hey Dave, a much easier way to use a brace is horizontally in the vice with your belly against the head. You probably need a bench instead of that table so your vise is a little less than waist high. Then you can use your body weight instead of muscle.
roy underhill a master woodwright uses a lot of similiar tools . when you were augering that 5" piece of maple would getting higher above give more leverage than perpendicuar you might of been able to use your weight and abs to provide more power ? thank you .
Hey Dave, great video! Would you suggest having a seasoned handle ready before cutting and auguring the head? That way as the head seasons it will shrink onto the handle and make it tighter?
After watching this I have a question, it may be a duhhh question. You put the handle in the head and said to wait for it to dry sum then you would put in a wedge. Does that mean you would mark the top of the handle, knock off the head then trim and put in a kerf for the wedge? Is there a way to put the wedge in without taking off the head? Really enjoying this series that you are doing.
Hello, Do you have a video showing how you built that generic auger adapter. I am assuming those are conduit parts where you just broached an end-plug. Can you confirm. Regards, BAG2
+wildernessoutfitters Oh, I have to watch that one now. I have an idea for that process, but I haven't tested it. Always good to see how someone else goes about it. :)
I love how you are showing hand tools from centuries past, but i really gotta wonder, with all the new technology (even 50+ year old electric tech) why would you bother with all of this when you can spend $100-150 and get a portable solar charging station and just use your power tools. I mean if you need conveyance to carry all this stuff already, or are keeping it for a homestead, why would you settle for ancient wood working tools when you can have modern electric and rechargeable tools and the ability to power them wherever you go? I have a bunch of tools my grandfather and father bought since the 1950s that work flawlessly to this day. I just don't get it, why work harder when you can work smarter and use technology? I can see owning the auger bits, saws, and other woodworking tools from the 1800s as display pieces, but why would you ever choose them over an electric drill, a sawzall, a dremmel tool, a jig saw, table saw, band saw, an orbital sander, an angle grinder, a planer, a router, etc.? Even if this were for an off-grid homestead, there are still many ways to get electricity to power your tools. And I don't know too many guys who run more than one tool at a time, so power usage isn't even a problem on a battery bank. I even have a generator that runs off the belt drive of an old tractor. Semper Fi
+Papa Bravo these tools built cathedrals and palaces for meliniums of years. anything that needs electricity is inherently unreliable over time because the power supply will eventually fail. hand tools are quiet and easier to transport and don't use consumable cutting blades.
+Papa Bravo Long term is where these larger tools would come into play, Long term where you gonna get new batteries? This old stuff will literally outlive you. Show me a modern power tool that can say that.
JCrook1028 Well technically, unless there is some mass emp (solar flare or nuclear war) there is very little chance of not having electricity for your entire life, and for the entire lives of your grand children. Also,many power tools are corded and use no batteries, and with solar, water, and wind technologies, even should the grid go down, there are multiple ways to gain electricity for your property. As to your other point, I personally own power tools that my grandfather purchased when he came home from WWII that are still completely functional and outlived my father, so there is that. Semper Fi
JCrook1028 How is that? The channel is about wilderness survival and self reliance, but has focused more on blacksmithing and woodworking in the past few months. Using 200+ year old designs for hand tools does not make you any more self reliant than if you use power tools powered by electricity you provide for yourself. Just because the old way was done for a long time does not make it a better way of doing things, it just means that people made due with the technology they had available to them at the time. We happen to have much greater technology available to us, easily obtained, so why wouldn't we use it? There is no reason to pretend that people who used to have to use a sickle to spend days cutting down entire fields of hay and alfalfa by hand wouldn't prefer to have a tractor with brush hog and hay bail attachments and knock it out in a few hours. Unless their religion didn't allow it. Semper Fi
You might explain to some people, that Wondering around isnt surviving.. If STUFF happens you need a place..a hold up..and need SOME skills if you are not going to depend on others.. Be it money, Diamonds, toilet paper...trading isnt fun NOR easy. IF you are going to do this..you should get a basic start/setup someplace. bury it, or Park it in the garage in a trailer.. MIGHT also look up BLM land sales..forestry and BLM do sell lands.. First places to get Emptied...Arms shops, Grocery, Pharmacy, and SCRAP YARDS.. Thinking you are going to haul 1 ton of metal in a hurry, ISNT a good idea. Mining for ORE can be a problem..and dangerous.
Dave, I'm in my late 60's and a lot of what you show I have seen my father or grand father do. But you have shown me a lot of things I have not seen too. Keep up the good work, some of that knowledge will and is still needed,. my father always used green wood for handles and when they dried out he would wedge them. We used homemade handles and augers right up until he died. My grandfather made wooden axe handles, hoe handles, paddles and anything else that people wanted, and made money at it and ran the farm. So it is a very valuable skill. Hope it never gets lost. He even showed us kids how to make alder whistles. Now there is something you could do on a program, an alder whistle.
You're a gifted craftsman and teacher. Thank you for this series.
Love it Dave, once again you've outdone your self with your different woodcraft series. Thanks and God bless
I am loving this Green Wood Series! Thanks Dave.
Genius! I've been wondering about how to make a simple vise. This is an incredible series, thanks Dave!
Yabba Dabba Do!!!! I'm loving this series. That mallet is awesome! And the stump shave horse was so simple.. I'm learning so much. thanks Dave!
Hey Dave,
Love this series! been doing a bit of this green woodworking off and on for a few years now. Through time i've come to nearly the same kit as you have been building here in the series. I was impressed by your foot vise and made one too. I added a "plank treadle" to the foot loop of the vise (which makes it ever so slightly easier/faster to use) and I secured the "hinge" endof the clamping arm with a rope tied into a taught line hitch. Make for quick adjustment when dealing with a larger project piece.
Keep up the awesome work
-Robert
Awesome video yet again. I love the foot vise idea. You're a fountain of great knowledge, Dave. Thanks for all the videos.
Thanks Dave for being not only willing to share knowledge ,but for making it so easy to understand :-)
This is the type of content I had hoped to get on the PathfinderTv. Skills based and less vlog. The original goal set for volume was hard to maintain.
Love what you are doing.
Keep sharing knowledge. I am still eager to learn.
Love this series, Dave! Thank you for sharing all the tips.
I truly wish I could like this more than once... that "shavehorse" is just what I needed
I'm really enjoying this series. keep them coming sir
Your the best DAVE!!! Keep them coming!
One of the most unique auger bit video's i've seen...learned a lot ...thanks
can't wait to try it heading up to Michigan this weekend for a little backpacking this will be a great project around the fire Thanks
Great video Dave. I really like the" sledgehammer" as I am a carpenter myself
Yabba Dabba Do!!!! I'm loving this series! That mallet is bad ass!!!
Pretty impressive stuff Mr. Canterbury.
For the permanent homestead look into boring machines, specifically the Boss Double Eagle. Also of note, the feed screw on auger bits come in various thread pitches, finer are best for hard wood while courser are for softer woods, the feed screw determines how thick a chip the cutter will cut. Great alternative for a shaving horse.
A foot vice, .... What an amazing tool . Thanks for sharing.
once again Dave you hit the nail with your head great job thank you
loved the stump vice tip. big help when carving walking sticks.
Good stuff... I'll try and find a Millers handle... Never come across one in all the garage sales and flea I've gone to, but I wasn't looking for that specifically so I may have overlooked an opportunity.
Had to edit my comment as I spoke too soon lol... the foot vice is brilliant! Another project I'll undertake this week: Thanks Dave.
I always used a wooden mallet for building my duck blinds out in the water because they float if dropped. We'd use cedar poles and build on the edges of the tall bull rushes. Good video!
Loving this series keep it up.
Foot vice was a brilliant Idea. Will be doing that the next trip out in the woods
Nice job and good series!Clark
The brace will accept small drill bits too.You can drill holes in steel, you are limited to light work, because the round drill bit does not hold as tight as a modern chuck.
On your mallet if you don't want the head to come off, I saw a chair maker at a show and he dried the horizontal pieces in a cardboard box lined with aluminum foil and a light bulb at the bottom. He said that when the dried horizontal pieces were mortised into a green vertical piece. The dry piece expanded and the green piece shrunk. He said that locked the joint together and would not come apart. So I thought a dry handle and a green head and that joint would lock together and not come apart.
In old shipyards they called those big wooden mallets "commanders". I've never seen a vice made like that though, that's cool.
Hey Dave, a much easier way to use a brace is horizontally in the vice with your belly against the head. You probably need a bench instead of that table so your vise is a little less than waist high. Then you can use your body weight instead of muscle.
roy underhill a master woodwright uses a lot of similiar tools . when you were augering that 5" piece of maple would getting higher above give more leverage than perpendicuar you might of been able to use your weight and abs to provide more power ? thank you .
Hey Dave, great video! Would you suggest having a seasoned handle ready before cutting and auguring the head? That way as the head seasons it will shrink onto the handle and make it tighter?
We used to auger holes and then drive well points and pipe with a big mallet like that.
After watching this I have a question, it may be a duhhh question. You put the handle in the head and said to wait for it to dry sum then you would put in a wedge. Does that mean you would mark the top of the handle, knock off the head then trim and put in a kerf for the wedge? Is there a way to put the wedge in without taking off the head? Really enjoying this series that you are doing.
Dave, could you possibly do the project on how to make a leg powered grinding (sanding) stone?
thanx for the vid.check out the scotch eyed auger,very versatile.
Hello, Do you have a video showing how you built that generic auger adapter. I am assuming those are conduit parts where you just broached an end-plug. Can you confirm. Regards, BAG2
Would the mallet be strong enough to drive some post in the ground? I love this series because I love to make things. Keep up the good work.
I wonder how hard it would be to blacksmith an auger bit?
+Jonathan Turner I have a video on it in my Blacksmithing series, it is not that hard
cool, i'll check it out thanks
+wildernessoutfitters Oh, I have to watch that one now. I have an idea for that process, but I haven't tested it. Always good to see how someone else goes about it. :)
Good stuff. Thank you.
very, very nice tools
Yes! I liked! Thanks!
That's a big mallet!
i was waiting for you to pull out the watermelons its the sledge-o-matic
good deal
Did you give the Amish guy a kiss when you bought that 2" auger? That was a crime to get it that cheap.
That's awesome
Thank you for this video. mww
Thors mallet!
Gallagher's!
Lol sledge-o-matic!
The Fred Flintstone sledge hammer!
Legend.... just saying
I love how you are showing hand tools from centuries past, but i really gotta wonder, with all the new technology (even 50+ year old electric tech) why would you bother with all of this when you can spend $100-150 and get a portable solar charging station and just use your power tools. I mean if you need conveyance to carry all this stuff already, or are keeping it for a homestead, why would you settle for ancient wood working tools when you can have modern electric and rechargeable tools and the ability to power them wherever you go? I have a bunch of tools my grandfather and father bought since the 1950s that work flawlessly to this day. I just don't get it, why work harder when you can work smarter and use technology?
I can see owning the auger bits, saws, and other woodworking tools from the 1800s as display pieces, but why would you ever choose them over an electric drill, a sawzall, a dremmel tool, a jig saw, table saw, band saw, an orbital sander, an angle grinder, a planer, a router, etc.? Even if this were for an off-grid homestead, there are still many ways to get electricity to power your tools. And I don't know too many guys who run more than one tool at a time, so power usage isn't even a problem on a battery bank. I even have a generator that runs off the belt drive of an old tractor.
Semper Fi
+Papa Bravo these tools built cathedrals and palaces for meliniums of years. anything that needs electricity is inherently unreliable over time because the power supply will eventually fail. hand tools are quiet and easier to transport and don't use consumable cutting blades.
+Papa Bravo Long term is where these larger tools would come into play, Long term where you gonna get new batteries? This old stuff will literally outlive you. Show me a modern power tool that can say that.
JCrook1028
Well technically, unless there is some mass emp (solar flare or nuclear war) there is very little chance of not having electricity for your entire life, and for the entire lives of your grand children. Also,many power tools are corded and use no batteries, and with solar, water, and wind technologies, even should the grid go down, there are multiple ways to gain electricity for your property.
As to your other point, I personally own power tools that my grandfather purchased when he came home from WWII that are still completely functional and outlived my father, so there is that.
Semper Fi
Papa Bravo
Obviously you miss the entire point of the channel. Have a good day.
JCrook1028
How is that? The channel is about wilderness survival and self reliance, but has focused more on blacksmithing and woodworking in the past few months. Using 200+ year old designs for hand tools does not make you any more self reliant than if you use power tools powered by electricity you provide for yourself. Just because the old way was done for a long time does not make it a better way of doing things, it just means that people made due with the technology they had available to them at the time. We happen to have much greater technology available to us, easily obtained, so why wouldn't we use it?
There is no reason to pretend that people who used to have to use a sickle to spend days cutting down entire fields of hay and alfalfa by hand wouldn't prefer to have a tractor with brush hog and hay bail attachments and knock it out in a few hours. Unless their religion didn't allow it.
Semper Fi
You might explain to some people, that Wondering around isnt surviving..
If STUFF happens you need a place..a hold up..and need SOME skills if you are not going to depend on others.. Be it money, Diamonds, toilet paper...trading isnt fun NOR easy.
IF you are going to do this..you should get a basic start/setup someplace. bury it, or Park it in the garage in a trailer..
MIGHT also look up BLM land sales..forestry and BLM do sell lands..
First places to get Emptied...Arms shops, Grocery, Pharmacy, and SCRAP YARDS..
Thinking you are going to haul 1 ton of metal in a hurry, ISNT a good idea.
Mining for ORE can be a problem..and dangerous.
That ignorance might disappear a in a little bit. People having watched alone might see the merit of these types of skills.
This video is boring...;)