Oak Shingles 

They are trying to bring them back. I was in the shanendoa valley and I saw a chestnut, felt like I saw a unicorn

Mike Yazel Looking to make my own roof and was curious as to why you like green wood. What exactly is green wood and the benefit of using outdoors? Thanks.

...and she's a woman! Don't forget that! (tho she wouldn't let it slip by ya, if you have an ear to hear it.)

There are women in the U.S. that like woodworking, electrical and farming ... I know because I am one. I'm not in Tennessee though, I'm in South Carolina and down here there aren't any men that have these interests.

Beekeeper...and you use paraffin wax? Isn't that sacrilege?

let it go

@@cesssumawang2485 No

Yeah! The tool shes using to split the wood is called a froe, I'd imagine the handle is hickory or ash, but most likely it's an ash handle being in the uk. It's a beautiful draw knife she's using too, with the brass ferrules. Proper stuff!

They last much longer split.

the fencing is called wattle, and is used as the lattice work for wattle and daub, just to point you in the right direction to find more information if you haven't already.

it's called a shave horse. Jesus fuck dude broaden your horizons.

It's some kind of bench. There's actually a video here on RU-vid with a guy making one in the forest. I think it's on the TA OUTDOORS channel or the Coalcracker Bushcraft one.

+Marc A Gagnon Yeah it's a draw knife here too, and she's using it on a shave horse.

+Marc A Gagnon Yeah it's a draw knife here too, and she's using it on a shave horse.

youniverse traveller she said it'd take her a week to cover the roof shown with between 1,000 and 1,500 shingles. 40 hours / 1,000 shingles = .04 hours per shingle and 1,500 = .06, which is about 1.6-2.4 minutes each. That time frame of 1 week included installing the shingles, not just making them.

Shave horse.

I realize this is an old post but hopefully it might help others as well. It's called a shave horse. There are a couple versions most people make. It is one of those tools that you make to work the best for your needs. To many people see something they believe is incorrect and to me it seems they forget there isn't a rule to these types of tools one must follow. You do what works best for you and always leave your mind open to improvements or someone being sincere with advice. After all this line of work is about the simple things in life. I built mine just from an idea and other ideas soon come about with other uses for it as well modifications to make using it not only just it being effective, comfortable or ease of use but all the above from your own hands. Take care..

I bought land that was almost clear cut, they took all the ceader, oak, and pine they could. The replanted pine and sycamore for some reason. They left 2 oaks around 3' diameter. I seeded in more oak trees years ago and now have 4" saplings everywhere.

I bought a veneer log from a sawmill and made a mountain of shingles from it. You pay top dollar, but you big enough diameter to allow you to trim up your splits and still have 6-8 inches at a minimum. Remember you're dealing with the radius, I had an 18" log and it was good, but I wasn't getting any really wide shingles out of it and a lot were shy of 6 inches

Yeah, but she's actually making the shingles by hand, without power tools. If you started your concrete tiles by quarrying and crushing the lime to make cement, digging the coal to fire it, mixing it and actually making the tiles in moulds, and so on, all by yourself, I suspect it might take a LITTLE longer than a week, even with power tools!

you must walk in the rain with your head down with a nose as turned up as yours

She doesn't mean a safe space in terms of physical safety, she means it as in a space where you can feel safe to make mistakes because you're not being judged on being a woman learning a skill that's not traditionally feminine. Sometimes as a woman, if you are branching out into new skills, it can be scary learning from a guy because you're either being judged or patronised, and you feel like you have to represent your gender. If you're shy or you want to learn at your own pace, it can be very intimidating. The communities I've worked with have all been lovely and welcoming and a dude in his 50s taught me how to chop wood like a demon and build things and has always been able to perfectly mix thoroughly showing me how to do something without making me feel thick or weak for not knowing or not having the skills to do something, BUT we have had male visitors on site give me the side-eye when my mentor hands me the angle grinder.

Ru Raynor I know what you're getting at, and it's often the case that women feel intimidated in situations like this. But like you say, not all men are like that, why can't you 'man-up' as the term goes and not feel so sensitive? Prove them wrong and they'll respect you for it. You have to understand men too: Many women simply aren't cut out for some of the jobs that men do and find it hard for whatever reason. This, coupled with the fact that many women have shied away only compounds this observation that men have made. So it's exacerbated and perpetuating. So the answer isn't to effectively help along with this perception men have of women, but to prove otherwise, in front of them. If you resort to women-only groups then you WILL be seen as somehow thick or weak, as you put it. Things are never going to change. The 'equality' mantra isn't being helped by women who do decide to give up and join women-only groups for fear or ridicule. Don't forget many men too feel intimidated by other men, so it's not only women; but we don't give up, we soldier on. Maybe we are stronger after all? I'm not saying that to belittle, but based on what I see in your comment, as other women too tend to echo, but complain about inequality when they aren't contributing positively to change it, by virtue of resorting to their default position of avoiding men's group and instead opting for women's. It only cements the stereotypes rather than challenging it. Things will never change all the time women behave like this, and yet you somehow place the blame on men, when you aren't helping the situation yourselves. Shifting blame onto men is a bit one-sided, when you have responsibility to change men's perceptions of women, if you don't like our perception of you. Why do women expect to be treated with kid gloves so, being given special treatment in many cases, so you can then consider yourselves 'equal' when you've not behaved as if you are? It is an uphill struggle, and it isn't easy, but neither is it for some men either, who might be effeminate or otherwise 'intimidated'. Sadly these men DON'T have the luxury of joining women-only groups. They don't have any choice but to soldier on. Until BOTH genders work together, not bowing out because of how they 'feel', things will, undoubtedly, start to change. But to feed into the stereotype by giving up only perpetuates the situation you obviously want to change. I know a couple of women who are woodsmen and they've battled it out themselves, probably feeling intimidated inside, but they've stuck it out, and they've gained a lot of respect for it. One of them I really do have such admiration and affection for her (I can't help it). She's kept her feminine charm and is positively lovely, bringing something a little different and refreshingly so, to her craft. It would be nice to see other women supporting her by doing the same, and not expecting special treatment because you're female!

I enjoyed the video up until the point Ruth mentioned the female/safe/something special thing. As the OP says, definitely offensive to fellow male and female woodworkers. She's still young, well meaning and full of energy. Perhaps she grew up among rough men. But if a person, male or female, is making a place of study feel 'unsafe' to learn in then regardless of sex they are obviously not worthy of being called, nor suited to being a teacher. A teacher should be like a father, mother, uncle, aunt, brother or sister. Someone who makes you feel part of something and who imparts knowledge to you as and when you are ready. It's sad that you have to bicker about this mass media engineered sexist climate instead of 'personing' up to it and being a real person. RU-vid is full of wonderful and sincere woodworkers, craftspeople and DIYers of both sexes. Let's focus on the good and ignore the bad. It goes away eventually, with patience and perseverance.

tnick2 Thanks for supporting me on this. Seems as if many men (and yes we're to blame in some measure, though it's also in-bred into us not to share our feelings too readily, so it doesn't come naturally) are reticent on this, but we have been made to feel unwelcome in many environments: Can't walk by a school and look and smile at the kiddies for fear of being labelled a paedophile, or at least raising suspicions. That is way more oppressive and damaging than how women feel in a mere teaching environment. So sure, you're right about focussing on the craft instead of worrying about the people behind it. I'm certain that if women didn't forever complain about it and just got down and dirty, so to speak, that one's gender would be less of an issue in quite a short space of time. It'd be great to work together instead of focussing on how we 'feel' all the time and over-worrying about such things, and just get on with the task in hand.I'm glad I'm not the only one 'feeling' like this, he says having just said how we need to focus on the task in hand. But I hope it's clear why it was nevertheless necessary to say? ;-)

The amount of shit you hear from men, especially in the trades, makes it disturbing, dehumanising and straight up dangerous for women in male jobs. Even the "good" men think they deserve a medal just because they won't actively try to screw you over for being a woman, but they will still cover for creepy and misogynistic men, smirk at their "jokes" and misogynistic comments and gaslight women that they're crazy misandrists imagining things and overreacting. And telling women to give men a chance after men continuously screw them over due to their misogyny (frequently ending in serious trauma) isn't helping. Women are not the problem for not trusting men after centuries of being treated as subhuman, men are the problem for pushing male supremacist ideas so hard that the vast majority of women's safety and humane treatment is compromised because of it. Men are the ones with the problem here, not women for keeping themselves safe from centuries of their violence and abuse.

+ljbobb1 a froe should definitely be sharp. keep it sharp like a splitting ax, not a razor , but sharp enough to demand respect

+Ltifone2014 thank you, it's been frustrating to find imfo ... not many people use them anymore

if you have the equipment, i prefer a chisel grind over the factory double bevel. i find it easier to place it where it needs to be

+Ltifone2014 Ok. Thank you

I've split tons of white oak shingles for little outbuildings and things, one project is a mobile shack that's been on the road 5 years as a food truck. Your froe doesn't need a knife edge, think of it as a long, slender maul, not an axe. The real work is done by applying leverage to the handle to seperate or split the wood fibers, you actually don't want to cut through the fibers, just pop them apart like slipping your fingers between the pages of a book. It's incredibly important to have a near perfect, straight-grained log and you really want it to be as green as possible. The real magic of a froe is that you can control which way the split will go, if it wants to walk to the left or the right you can put a knee in the center of the piece and pull back on the spine of the thicker side to pull the split back into the center. By doing that, you can split pieces down to 1/4" or so if you choose. It's an incredibly fast and efficient way to break a log down into crude planks, or palings as they used to say. Gives you a respect for how they used to do it in the old days and you quickly realize the advantages of having large, virgin timber at your disposal. Simple machines can get a crazy amount of work done when you have cooperative materials to work with.

absolutely not, pine and spruce is not termites resistance they will attract them when they get wet

What about Fir?

ich nehme nur kiefer oder fichte, tanne geht auch,lärche wäre besser lärche und eiche ist aber sehr teuer

She made some great points about how and where you do a roof like this. A steep pitch with plenty of air to move through and around the shingles can double or triple the lifespan. Depending on how natural you want it to be, you could treat it with a Thomson's type product and possibly get some decent results? I kept mine natural, then decided i didnt like they gray color, so i cleaned it up with an acid type of product that ate away the graying surface and got down to clean wood, then i stained and sealed it. I'm using white oak in Virginia.

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+Dovydas Pocius It is called a shave horse. There's all types of videos and articles all over the internet. There's also quite a variety of them to.

Nice thank you :)

After a three year apprenticeship she shouldn't be bumblefucking her shakes let alone tickling with a maul.

undeadgaming Did I hear one of AvE’s trademark words? :-D

@@undeadgaming5245 She's working and doing an interview.

+Justin Brown pre-drill the nail hole