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Excellent job splicing all of your homestead videos together into a single marathon. It is very watchable this way without trying to search out each individual part. Thank you for all of your efforts showing us the old techniques!
This is experimental archaeology. I love it! No better way to discover how it was done long ago than to use the same tools and technology they had and just try it. Great video!
I feel like there are a lot of good things about winter in the north. No bugs, food can be kept frozen, snow makes hunting easier if not too deep, easier to access some areas once the ground and water freezes
I was ther3 for the beginning of the cabin videos. To be honest the cooking and the building on the homestead are my favorite videos from y'all. Don't get me wrong, i love all the videos, but the building and cooking are my favorite.
Thanks for taking this on, a very lot of hard labor but also technical details that must be adhered to in order to achieve success. In Washington's soldiers cabin the cob may not have been of ideal quality, so maybe he said 18" to express importance of this detail.
Great concept. I can watch axe, auger and drawknife work all day. Brandon has some crazy fabrication skills and Ryan is great at the campfire. Just as I was thinking "Livestock" you said Chooks. Next is pigs. The smokehouse was a mortise and tenon dream. Cheers!
It's amazing that agriculture became productive enough to allow people to live in cities and work in factories. Everything we have is based on increased efficiency in agriculture. People used to work dawn to dusk just to feed themselves.
I've watched from the beginning. My main interest is cooking, but I can see how that fits into the homestead. I have a few comments: where does the forge get charcoal? I have a friend who has done this ( but he was smelting iron ore). Does the fence keep the chickens in?( they can fly). And have you considered burning wood that would give ash to make soap? I was part of a group that fired pottery in a pit, but our Potter had thrown a tube about 2 ft diameter and 1 1/2 ft tall. This was settled on a shelf in the hole and the greenw a re was stacked inside. All was covered with damp dirt and one end of the pit was open into a trench. As the firing wood burned down, it was replaced with more and the hot ashes scraped out, and we cooked on them. I made a lovely loaf of bread in my cas.thank you so much.. now I want a German kitchen!t iron Dutch oven
I would suggest split rail fencing as your next project. Settlers would have wanted a garden next to the house area. And the next animals would have been pigs (for clearing and meat), oxen (for plowing and hauling), and later horses (for hauling/riding and status). No housewife would have wanted any of them in her garden. Maybe goats and/or sheep after pigs. Ducks and geese would like the location.
I am a firm believer that people were always meant to inhabit rustic little cabins in peaceful forest groves, not whatever this is that we are calling “living” now.
Be careful while chopping logs with axes! When chopping, always put the other hand behind your back. I once chopped with my left hand holding the wood and the axe accidentally sliced through my arm while I swung my left hand. The doctors managed to put it back together but 3 days later there was a massive infection and they had to amputate it. It spread to my shoulder joint so my left arm was removed to the shoulder joint.
I absolutely love this, I noticed things I missed before. Did you play baseball before, the way caught those cobb mud balls on the roof. Ivy looked so young. I know it's a lot of work, but I really love these videos. Does your wife do any reenacting ? Thanks
Is this a second video on the another log cabin that was built a year go, the hand made bricks 3 years ago, brick firing 3 years ago, earthen oven 3 years ago and pt 1 of the cabin 4 years ago? This seems a rerun of the others videos you posted about 3-4 years ago.
This video, along with I'd say a good 3/4 to 7/8's of the videos Townsends puts out "live" on Friday afternoons are anything but now. However, this series is new *to me* so I can't complain too much.
Imagine being a native sitting high up on a hill. And you look over into the town of settlers that just moved in. And all you see is these white shirts running around trying to get things built. I wonder if they called it a colony, because they all look like ants?😂
