Building a Wood Shed | Off Grid | Pioneer Life | Bushcraft | Self Reliance | Log Cabin Build

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Peter harvests material from the forest and constructs a wood shed for the 1700's pioneer homestead. Using the tools and techniques available to the first settlers, he cuts the trees with axe and bow saw. He measures using his tumpline and peels the logs using his draw knife. He then drags or carries the material from the bush. He runs into a problem digging the post holes, when he finds an immoveable rock.
Featuring - Peter Kelly
Cinematography - Catherine Wolfe
Producer & Editor - Shane Kelly
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The amazing music in this episode is graciously provided by our friends - Richard Fortier and Al MacDonald
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@stoneinthefield1 Год назад

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Ralph Waldo Emmerson

@TheWoodlandEscape Год назад

Thanks for sharing … Emerson is most definitely Olof my favorite philosopher!

@wlkfpcwashington 2 года назад

Full disclosure: I don’t care a wit that you occasionally use “store bought” nails or a shovel not perfectly exact to the time you’re representing. I just LOVE your videos. In fact, I would sit and watch your work all day…I just realized as I wrote that how it might sound. I mean to say that they are peaceful, informational, beautifully filmed and always humbly presented by you, Peter. Your videos transport me in time and place to a hard but fulfilling time where life was difficult but the value of it cherished. Thanks, Peter for another great one!

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Very flattered by kind words, William.

@johnf7017 2 года назад

We get it no explanation needed. No Covid , no BS . Many of us envy you and are green eyed with jealousy as many of us , myself included , wish I could be doing what you are .

@landontakeamericaback2106 6 месяцев назад

Great job, I do not think anyone could fault you in any way for the minimal shortcuts.Heck we have watched you forge nails.I applaud all you do.We are probably about the same age,not sure If I could ever take up half what you accomplish .Most likely men if they ever reached our age were more likely teaching the young not building homesteads.You your Family are just awesome individuals.

@TheWoodlandEscape 6 месяцев назад

Such flattering words, thank you so much. As to family, we’ll I kinda lucked out! Thanks for watching and commenting, means a lot.

@chipchaffee2416 8 месяцев назад

Cedar will out last us all . Growing up in Vermont we always made our fence post out of it . I’m now 55 and there still there. So enjoy watching you work with what you have . There was a man in the small town that I grew up in that used to hand hew beams by hand with a double headed axe .

@TheWoodlandEscape 8 месяцев назад

There are fence posts still standing on my family farm that my father placed in the ground in the 60’s.

@bobesselstyn461 2 года назад

coming along Pete,take care

@1957jmhiser1 2 года назад

I wish I were 25 years younger, to build a place like yours would be a dream

@drghazalajan5104 Год назад

You are v nice person just like my grand father ..you are great sir

@TheWoodlandEscape Год назад

A lovely compliment, thank you.

@prattsgreenhousefarm9473 2 года назад

If there is one thing I have learned from your videos it is the incredible amount of work it takes to live in the 1700’s. Keep up the good content.

@daviddowd3764 2 года назад

Remarkable craftsmanship, my friend.

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Thanks so much David.

@katherynlamarche7308 2 года назад

Thank you so much .I was borne in small town in Northern Ontario Canada in 1944. we did not have running water, no hydro,no cars in the winter,just horses and goats and sleds. I love it keep it up. Julien

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Glad you’re enjoying Julien. My wife and used to farm with horses and I miss those days.

@curtislow6018 2 года назад

Appreciate you Sir

@jamesellsworth9673 2 года назад

Talk about logs that will 'peel!' How we would love to find the like of these during our projects!

@contactlight8079 2 года назад

Instant like...

@stephendaniel168 2 года назад

Beautiful brother.

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Thanks Stephen .

@beebob1279 2 года назад

Love how you eye leveled the poles.

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

No mea measurement supersedes a fair line!

@shanek6582 2 года назад

You have good taste

@rogerdevero8726 10 месяцев назад

Thank You Peter, for your teaching channel; it's very professionally filmed and edited. Today we certainly take for granted all that we have; now we just go to the 'big box store' or rather, hire someone who knows what to do. God bless you - John 3:16

@TheWoodlandEscape 10 месяцев назад

You are very welcome, encouraging words as well, thank you.

@scarlethenderson6510 2 года назад

62 year of age woman watching from Hot Springs Arkansas , loving you and your wife's videos thank you so much for sharing, so much to learn from y'all and so relaxing

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

We are flattered , Scarlet.

@nickmail7604 2 года назад

You haven't got a lead pencil either, its graphite. They would probably have marked it with a carpenters scribe back then rather than messing about with bits of charcoal. I enjoy your channel!

@philipobrien4407 Год назад

Peter I just found you. Great video, nice guy with the gift of the gab Want to build exactly this in the Czech Highlands. Had it in my head and there you are on the roof🙂 For me it will be wood and garden tool storage...walk up as you did and watch the sun set 🙂 first time I ever commented on You Tube video 👏

@TheWoodlandEscape Год назад

Well, Philip we’re flattered to receive your first comment ever and appreciate both your interest and support. Good luck with your project.

@11h5p4 2 года назад

Must be awesome to have those resources within walking distance. Th

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

We are very lucky to have woodlot that provides for us.

@unpredictable913 2 года назад

8:08 What if someday you find a treasure?? It would be a big surprise! Just a thought coming to mind.

@sandydaviswhytelewis5387 2 года назад

Thanks 😊 Peter for the "R" Tip❣

@AppalachianManCave 2 года назад

Always a treat to see a new video pop up.

@anthonyberger225 2 года назад

I like it 👍

@blackspruceroutes 2 года назад

Hahaha You made me chuckle! My Dad used to say those very words and yes he still does sometimes! lol..Back then I would wish he'd leave me be, now I wouldn't mind having him around...He would have loved your channel! He was very interested in the history of Canada and its ancestors... Thank you sir!

@dalegirard9740 2 года назад

U say it's hot just imagine fighting war in heat

@johnclarke6647 3 месяца назад

Use the end of the handle on your shovel to tamp the dirt around your posts. That’s what I do.

@GeoterricsOutdoorsAustralia 2 года назад

Always learning from your videos - "Peter, a job worth doing is worth doing right"- I often hear that voice from my own dad's memory - great job as always Peter!

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Thank you.

@tracysmith5497 Год назад

I am so glad to have come across your channel. I have a small homestead off grid and limited income. I've been trying to find ways to get things done around here, like a decent wood shed, by making it myself with what I have here. I'm always telling folks our ancestors did it and so can we.... we're living proof they succeeded. Thank you for these wonderful videos showing how it was done. This will be so helpful to me out here in the " hinterlands " .

@TheWoodlandEscape Год назад

Glad your finding our videos useful, that is very encouraging to get that kind of feedback.

@abbasharun4525 2 года назад

👍👌✋

@drew1878 2 года назад

I love your videos! They've kept me sane throughout my combat deployment! Thank you

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Thanks for your service

@suzanagebhardtsuzana362 Год назад

7:55

@Larry-325 2 года назад

Love the content as usual!!!! 100% correct on parents voices in your head. I think you do a great job of portraying 1700’s I can’t get enough of your channel. 👍👍👍👍

@americanpatriot2979 2 года назад

Great workmanship.

@jimcy1318 2 года назад

Don't know if you noticed but their was a couple of green with envy french Canadians watching from the water's edge 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸👍🇬🇧

@scottbrady2925 2 года назад

Makes me wish I could live my life over. So inspirational. Keep the history coming

@judyjenson2918 2 года назад

Love, love your videos. Keep them coming. The cabin is beautiful....

@dfraser7402 Год назад

Thank you for the wonderful videos. Will you at some point cover the construction of a tump line?

@TheWoodlandEscape Год назад

I will most certainly put that on our to do list. Thanks for your support and interest.

@albertmast4627 2 года назад

Ah fully up to date now with watching the series. Can’t wait for the next episode and love the series. Very good inspirational and calming. Thank you

@ironcladranchandforge7292 2 года назад

That's a fine looking wood shed. In my super dry climate, I figure 10 years for pine, 15 to 20 years for juniper, and 30+ years for cedar in the ground. But in reality I don't really care because if a post rots I just replace it. No big deal, LOL. I've been peeling logs today myself. It's for a fence.

@richardofsylmar 2 года назад

Thank you and the Mrs. Peter.

@markaugustus621 2 года назад

Like the previous comment it is a journey to watch you work on this and your other projects. It's a journey to a time when simple pleasures and hard work was what made us. A simple cup of coffee with Bannock and maybe some home made jam. Your love of hand tools and the knowledge of how to use them makes your work a joy to watch. You are keeping the spirit alive. Thank you.

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Your kind comments are sincerely appreciated.

@lancehenderson7249 2 года назад

Enjoy your videos immensely and saved them all.

@rpoberueberSCHECKE 2 года назад

Vielen Dank Mister Peter für Ihre jederzeit wundervollen Videos voller Liebe zum Detail und der Reise in die virtuelle Vergangenheit. Es freut mich sehr Ihre Filme sehen zu dürfen. Danke sagt Peter aus Deutschland und der Stadt im Fluß Brandenburg an der Havel

@MountainMariner 2 года назад

I live a fairly hardcore off-grid lifestyle and this channel is one of my favorites. Can't wait to see the winter videos and more fires in that beautiful fireplace!

@stannelson2582 2 года назад

Man I love it. I just love taking it all in. Very cool.

@UncleBud83 2 года назад

I always work the same way. “Oh I should stop it’s too friggin hot… oh I’ll just finish this one thing and this and that lol.” Keep up the great work friend!

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

That is exactly what goes through my brain!!!

@gyrene91 Год назад

Greetings, Peter. Thank you for all your videos. I have not made it through all of them. Have you ever made a video tutorial on how you made your 20 ft tumpline? If not, would that be a possibility?

@TheWoodlandEscape Год назад

We have made 20 foot tumplines and no we didn’t film it but, it certainly is a possibility for a future episode. We appreciate your interest.

@asdfdfggfd 2 года назад

Home depot sells square cut nails in the masonry aisle..

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Hey are a wee bit course for most wood projects but, I have used ,hem in concrete with good success.

@jetblack2602 2 года назад

You can use your knive for marking lines on wood

@mountainviewturning5319 2 года назад

Can say one thing people back then wasn't lazy people

@jamesellsworth9673 2 года назад

Tump lines! what a great hauling device as well! I have seen it so often when outdoorsmen are hauling sledges.

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

So many uses and certainly a must have on the frontier.

@earlshaner4441 2 года назад

Hi from Syracuse NY USA brother and thank you for sharing your thoughts and adventures and your family and everyone else

@kevinscudamore2711 2 года назад

👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@tylerthompson5933 2 года назад

Cathy, you have done such a great job filming this adventure for us. Thank you!

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

She has done an amazing job.

@greywindLOSP 2 года назад

BRAVO SIR, BRAVO!.....ATB

@robaldridge6505 2 года назад

all looking good, you sir are a fine workman. Consider.. if you did this again, you can put your rails INSIDE the 4 main posts and you can use an auger and pegs to save nails, with the rails inside the firewood can lean hard against it with out fear of tumbling out.... how hot is it out there??? I don't like seeing that dayfog on your pond, too humid.. LOL starting to cool here, back under 90

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

It ins a tad tropical, Rob and I did consider your approach but, rethought it when I realized I would lose about a foot of space on each of the 3 walls.

@robaldridge6505 2 года назад

@@TheWoodlandEscape keeps your wood further under the roof and no 'tumble outs' from nails walking out....

@gdreilly 2 года назад

Great video as always! Lots of good information! Thank you for the information on the book from your last video! I got a copy of it yesterday and have really enjoyed the information from it!

@kristinesautter3529 2 года назад

You do a great job of placing yourself into the personification of the time era your using. So what if a modern convenience pops in at times like a 4 wheeler at 12:32 or a shovel like you talk about. Make these videos yours and yours alone. I would if I were you. 100% love these videos and look forward to each of them. Mountain Man Traditions were to be thrifty with what you had and you're doing it!

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Opp’s! Totally missed that one.

@mikefarrar3363 9 месяцев назад

Great job and video

@TheWoodlandEscape 9 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@mick5740 10 месяцев назад

Thirty seconds in and I love this guy

@TheWoodlandEscape 10 месяцев назад

Those are very flattering words, I certainly appreciate your interest.

@heru-deshet359 2 года назад

I have continuously checked my notifications for your video today. Loved it as always.

@suzanagebhardtsuzana362 Год назад

Amei seu. Vídeo sua cabana e a primeira vez que vejo ! Infelizmente não entendo sua língua pois moro no Brasil

@TheWoodlandEscape Год назад

Thanks Suzann.

@jeannettebrewer3007 2 года назад

I'm surprised you didn't char/burn the ends of those poles..so they'd last longer?..love your show & work

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Thank you.

@jamesellsworth9673 2 года назад

'Fiddler On The Roof?'

@thewildspy2301 2 года назад

A big fire on top of a rock works wonders to break it down into manageable pieces. Great job!

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Great feedback.

@michygoss7148 2 года назад

Lovely content. I really love the advice and tips you have to offer. I love that you don’t need a level, or a tape measure, a plumb bob, and many other ‘necessities’ of today’s builds. You use your eye as a guide in your builds and they turn out amazing. What was that quote you said previously about no good measure supersedes the eye? Or something to that effect? I loved that saying, and I try and incorporate that when I’m building things. Im currently building a pole barn shed, and need to work on the roof next. I like the use of the shims and will likely do that for mine. Thanks, and keep the helpful building tips coming!

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

One of my favs … “ No measurement supersedes a fair line”.

@nosaltiesandrooshere7488 2 года назад

👍 Danke fürs Hochladen! 👍 Thanks for uploading! 👍 Very good and beautiful, thank you! 👍 Sehr gut und schön, danke!

@scottperry2290 2 года назад

Your videos are so enjoyable thank you for the history lesson. You inspire me to build a log structure,

@louisepozdzik7527 2 года назад

Because tamarack (as we call them here in Alberta) is abundant where we lived on our farm we used tamarack for posts. We fenced our quarter section with them in 1975 and they are still standing and firm. I peeled hundreds of those posts by hand too.

@christiaankruger3713 2 года назад

I just love this channel and appreciate every video and your thoughts on educational information that you share. May it grow from strength to strength.

@sherriking7917 2 года назад

Another great video !!! I love the way you do things and show them being done, not just the presenter talking all the time. So refreshing after some other DYI channels! Thanks!

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Thanks, Sherri. Glad you’re enjoying.

@sherriking7917 2 года назад

@@TheWoodlandEscape Really, really am and its thank you :)

@JohntheGreat007 2 года назад

You be careful sir! This heat is nasty!!!

@DenverChiropractor Год назад

Never peel a log in a month with an “R” in it. Thanks for the knowledge

@TheWoodlandEscape Год назад

You bet and trust me that rule holds true.

2 года назад

Simple, yet effective! I'll probably build something just like this on my land soon!

@rocar716 2 года назад

Like. It when some asks how long? Answer is always how long is a piece of string. 👍

@jantrewitt4058 2 года назад

Another nice video, Peter. Won't you have to build an outside toilet? The other day when you were planing some wood, it brought back some nice memories of when I was a preschool-aged girl watching my Grandpa make":curls" with the wood. We lived next door to my grandparents and my Grandpa was a carpenter by trade.

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Outhouse is in the plans soon. Waiting for a friend to saw some logs I brought over to him. Sounds like you have some fond memories of your grandfather.

@roamingturtle21 2 года назад

Well worth watching.

@dalejohnson5148 2 года назад

I really enjoyed watching your videos

@gravityman5529 2 года назад

Cool to see the hammer that pounded the frame nails in likely made them as well.

@johnabdo932 2 года назад

Great You Tube channel to watch,it let's us see how the pioneer's lived

@rockymountainreseller3858 2 года назад

Amazing how relaxing it is to sit and watch you build. I am starting a new woodshed as well. The other was built by my exhusband and is leaning badly

@derrickfarrell9777 2 года назад

👍👍👍Inspirational!

@alexs3447 2 года назад

Nice job Peter . We're keeping a blind eye to modern nails etc. Kudos on doing that work at your age

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Thanks, Alex.

@scottloughnan1358 2 года назад

just found you on yutube i did subscribe love what you are doing from haliburton ontario

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

I love the Haliburton area. We appreciate your interest and support Scott.

@andrewdowd3997 2 года назад

I’m sure you’ve heard this before but you share a striking resemblance to David Carradine. Thanks for all your work it’s incredible stuff.

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Don’t quite see it myself, Andrew but, I do get that comment a lot. We appreciate your interest.

@wvblue4658 2 года назад

As someone who makes baskets with materials that I gather, I surely wish I could have made a basket for your cabin with that lovely cedar bark.

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

There was a lot of it!

@wvblue4658 2 года назад

@@TheWoodlandEscape Yes, I was counting logs and mentally figuring out how many could be made for different purposes. But I know one person can't do it all and the cabin builders weren't necessarily also basket makers.

@johnclarke6647 3 месяца назад

My post hole diggers make short work of digging holes for fences and foundation posts. I once drug a 200# deer about 500 yards after killing it. It was a good shot - 250 yards with a .270 Win. I have killedgame animals further but have never drug them as far, afterwards.

@tomjerniagan8827 2 года назад

Another great show thank you

@richardbryant5773 2 года назад

Another great one thanks and keep them coming

@kingrafa3938 2 года назад

Another great video Peter 👍🇵🇭

@sebwood6316 2 года назад

Beautiful wood shed!! love it!

@edwardseth1230 2 года назад

question: how did pioneer make nails back in the day.. ofcourse nails were expensive back then but if you were to make a video on nails how they were it will be beneficial even today.

@TheWoodlandEscape 2 года назад

Hi Edward, We did a video on nail making.

@curtforeman9014 2 года назад

Another great video!

@marshallworden4092 2 года назад

Another great video.

@pattiea.dunlap1860 2 года назад

Very good. And I really like the music, too.

@stevebuckskinner5482 2 года назад

Another outstanding video!!!

@louisepozdzik7527 2 года назад

My Dad who passed on in 1993, told me in 2002 to use a dime to remove the screw tightener on the radiator hose that had sprung a leak while I was driving back to Jaffray, BC from Rocky Mountain House in Alberta. I said, "Dad, I don't have a dime". Dad said, "Yes you do in your jeans pocket. You picked it up at the bank when you cashed your cheque." Dad was looking after me!

@josefreck1103 2 года назад

👍😁😊😉

@ashleyanderson2859 2 года назад

Another great video as always. Really appreciate your efforts and dedication. My father has a hammer very similar to the one that you used for putting on your planks. I haven't seen anyone with a similar style. Love your content and keep your powder dry.