WARNING!!! Read before buying one. I own one. It’s great for sweet gum and wood with little knots and high moisture. Fair warning, if you come in contact with a knot on oak or similar, you can break a wrist or arm easily. When you hit a knot it can yank tool right from your hand. If your drill has throttle lock on it, can be very dangerous out of control. I’ve owned mine for years and built many pieces of furniture and deck railing with it. Be careful and avoid knots!!!
We are lucky to have a 200 year old locust grove on our farm. Locust posts last longer than stones. 😃 I’m right there with you on the election analysis. 👍🏼
I live in the rather hot humid and swampy South. There is a trick you can use on those homemade fence post to make them last longer in the ground without rotting. Get yourself a bucket of roofing tar or Roofing latex. Go to Walmart or your local hardware supply store get you some of those cheap screw hooks used to hang up flower pots. Screw them into the end of the fence post so you can string something threw it and hang the fence post up. Then dip the end of the fence post you're going to stick into the ground into whichever you bought Roofing tar or Roofing latex. Then hang it up somewhere where it won't make a big mess and let the roofing pitch or latex dry. Once it dries you can put it in the ground and it'll keep moisture, fungus and just about everything else that'll cause that wood to rot from getting to it. It'll add years to the life of that fence post.
Another good way to make them last longer is to put them down the other way than he does in the video. top down instead of bottom and the post won't draw water and rot.
The story of an american dream.. go to school for 20 years dreaming of being on your own with a nice job and getting a family started, then you spend the next 50 years putting all your free time into working through all of your healthy years either killing your body or killing your mind and soul just waiting for the day you save up enough change to retire working for a company who pays you a fraction of what you are actually making them from your work. Then you finally get to the point of being able to fulfill your dreams and either your too tired and body hurts too much to even want to do anything besides nothing or you get yourself to the point where all you know is work and cant feel normal unless you work so you work until you cant do anything or you die before retirement where all that youve hoped if that did happen is if everything youve spent your entire life doing will reap its benefits to the ones youve been doing it for but have no control of if it does happen.. Makes you wonder about all the millions of lives spent doing tasks that they either hated doing, were forced to do, or hurt them doing it just to ultimately have your lifes work maybe be seen for a bit when youre gone but like everything does, returns to the earth from where it came and the legacy of you within a generation or 2 will be forgotten and even all the blood sweat and tears dropped from the hopes and dreams will dry and the next generations will keep building like the roaches of the earth we are until we cant anymore.. all the bodies of the lost souls of the once living all churned and processed into the same dirt that builds the earth.. boggles the mind,. Some say it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all but if ignorance is bliss than would the closest thing to a heaven one could possibly have and know would be to not be mentally aware enough to be able to feel love at all? Where your happiest moments in life is when you are able to laugh With someone but are too mentally inept to realize whats really going on.. lifes just a series of thoughts and actions. Dont let your actions become your thoughts, make your actions build thoughts to build actions and keep one another building.. someday has no action, today does...
I appreciate your comments on the election at the end. I agree with your sentiments. Keep sending us videos on homesteading it keeps me focused on something other than politics
Mounting that clamp to a tree has workedout brilliantly, so simple but so effective. Nothing quite as satisfying as using a well made/well designed tool👍
My wife and I recently bought a house and some land in the countryside. We realize we're happiest when we're out there like you are, tending to the property outdoors. Working up a sweat, seeing the fruits of our labor and sleeping like we never do in the city. And though I think we're probably on opposite sides of the political spectrum I've found myself drawing the same humble conclusion as you. Turn off the tv, turn off Facebook and tend to the things you have influence on. Your family, your relationships, your immediate community. In that simple exercise we become just humans and not democrats and Republicans and on that I think we would all get along just fine. Thanks for making content.
I second this sentiment. In providing for ourselves and our community, in learning about working with our hands, producing things ourselves, we find things that we all agree on. There is nothing divisive about making a perfect mortise & tenon joint. To me, these simple things transcend this division that seems to be worsening in our country.
@@jakebredthauer5100 this is quite possibly the most ignorant thing I've heard this year, which is saying quite a bit. What communists? This is the baseless divisive fear mongering that got us where we are.
@@kevingoff7233 You are saying that communism is not real. You are saying that the division is baseless. That is the type of psychotic thinking that has allowed it to progress as far as it has. You should be aware that under communism no private property is allowed. That would include a mortise and tenon. I am not sure if I Correctly interpreted your reply. Because communism is an anti-christian the churches should be warning people. You might be one of those anti intellectuals. If you would like to reply, please be precise on what you are referring to.
Ya know, these videos are just a work of art. I may never have a homestead or do this type of work. But it brings peace to my day to watch, thank you for all the work you go through to provide this for our viewing.
I never know what I'm looking at but I keep watching in the expectation I will be able to use what I've learned already learned over the last 9 yrs. watching this channel. Thank you sir. I've said some unkind things in the past and I'm sorry for that...Doing it right is the utmost. Thank you and I repent.👍
I'm sure you know this trick but slightly charring the ends of the posts help prevent rot when they are in contact with the soil. Either way great video.
There is also the old farmers trick of mixing diesel fuel with used motor oil and brushing on to the areas of the log that will be in contact with the ground
I like the longer 20min plus videos. Especially when you are doing project and forestry work. I understand all videos don't need that duration but it is nice to have the longer videos. Keep it up! makes me want to get out and make a fence for our property!
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Cody, I must tell you I ordered a Pendelton shirt and it is amazing. I got the dark green and black because I hunt, it is crazy warm. Thanks for introducing me to Pendelton, I am 71 years old and never heard of them... TJ
I was very touched by that quote at the end. Thank you so much for sharing that. Even in our deepest trials and difficult moments in life we are very blessed to be able to turn to heaven for comfort, guidance, and peace.
I am an old Skidder operator and pretty sure my mom gave birth to me on the stump of a Cottonwood tree. RU-vid decided today to refrain from sending me video notifications of CNN destroying FOX news...and decided to send me a video pertaining to my 'True and very outspoken interest in life .' I appreciate both your candor and expertise in the woods and find you extremely easy to follow and watch. Wicked tools. Wishing you and yours a safe day.
That quote at the end is a very good one for the time and shows that 17th century philosophers need to be kept in mind with the current state of our country. 🌲
Thanks for your comments at the end of the video. You stated what a lot of us are feeling, especially for our children. I am thankful I was raised in a small town and worked on a farm. I grew up working on the farm, Doing community activities, supporting the church I was a member of. The Skills and Self reliance I learned, I do not see the next generation putting the effort in to learn. I do fear we are on a brink that we may never be able to turn back from. Thank you for sharing what you do. I have greatly enjoyed each video.
Watching this at 10:00 p.m. and watching you unwrap a flank steak sandwich and now I am hungry! Love the little details Mrs. W puts into the lunch with the box and the napkin. Hope it was delicious!
Every time I see a video of yours I get a little happier. Very wholesome content every time. Also love the longer videos. Blessings sent your family’s way🙏🏻
Best thing I gained from this is that all your videos about sharp'ning shows up here. From the draw knife to the axe to.........Everything is much better with sharp tools!! Thanks Cody!!!
The amount of time and effort you put into your cinematography is amazing for just one person. It must really add so much time onto any project you do! Thank you for sharing your work with us!
As a self-employed lifelong Democrat in Texas, I can imagine how you're feeling about the election: been there a few times...love your channel and in your humility... is grace.
On the “My Self Reliance” RU-vid site he chars the ends of wood put into the ground to reduce rot and bug damage. I am not sure how it works but it might be worth investigating for your fence. It looks really good.
You can affect change through your family and community but also nationally and even globally through your channel. As depressing as this situation is, you have a means to change things, it may not be enough to change the route our country is on, but God has blessed you with the ability and means to do what you can.
From Gulliver’s Travels..... you could call the woodland “Lilliput” as this was the kingdom where everything was dwarf size....?? Great fencing tool... 👍👏👏🙏
So many people have the exact same idea but even though many things about the ideas you have explained are definitely awesome there is something much more wonderful for our nation. Our founding fathers in my opinion would be turning in their graves if they saw how much of the the American public has these attitudes that are not the best for us. Cast something good is wonderful but the best is much more helpful. The greatest power is understanding the greatest freedom is knowing the truth and this means knowing it completely. Most people don't begin to know the truth completely. Well they definitely begin but if you know the saying there is much more then they have ever realized. We wouldn't have millions of people making similar comments if this was not the case. You can tell by the comments of so many people how powerful their understanding is or very clearly that it still need to be greater and even though it is awesome in many ways it can and seriously needs to be much better with life changing understanding. If you want to know the most valuable knowledge you could send me a message.
What a fantastic tool. Only one suggestion Cody. To slow the rot in the portion of the post that is buried a solution that is used in wet 'ole England is to char on a bonfire the buried part of the pole. Love the videos.
Enjoyed the video. As a Canadian I find Trump's actions perplexing. When Al Gore lost in 2000 he went through the legal battles and then conceded graciously even though he lost with questions unanswered. He felt robbed but thought for the sake of the country he'd better do what was best. Now that it's happening to the Republicans it's completely different?! There may be a double standard here. Inward reflection is required for perspective. I wish all Americans well.
It is nothing more than grown men (and women) being overly dramatic. You win some, you lose some. The only way to make real progress is to vote in representatives and elected officials who have your best interest in mind. And drop the partisan politics and come together to pass legislature that benefits everyone. Politics are so bad right now, that the two parties will almost certainly oppose any measures proposed by the "opposition". It's a damn shame that we have elected officials out there acting like children. And it's a bigger shame, that they are repeatedly re-elected.
The small woods in German The German people respect the forest and they are usually liter free and many have paths and trim dishes (?) (Places to exercise on walks ) through the forest. I went on dozens of Volksmarchs in the different forest during my 8 years stationed in Germany. Liter is about as rare as fangs on a rooster in Germany.
Thank for posting videos it keeps my mind busy with something else iv got covid iv worried so much about it but your videos keep my mind busy on something else I love your videos keep on make them 😀
@@jakebredthauer5100 I've seen both ways done. Something about the charring action makes them resistant to rot. I've seen it done on boards used to sheath a roof as well. Four boards ties together into a square tube to char the insides and then flipped to do the other side.
243 years as a country, mail in ballots counted even during our civil war, but a near universally disliked autocratic con man loses and suddenly “the voting process is unfair”. It not just disingenuous, it’s unpatriotic to suggest that the values our men and women have fought and died for are somehow null and void and our most sacred right to participate in democracy is suddenly flawed because one man said it was rigged.
@@Kaze919 it's a sad day when you can't even trust our media in this country to report in things fairly. When an australian news company does a better job covering the US election than the news in the US.
I'm not in the USA, but if nothing about that election worries you then maybe you will be happy with far worse too. America values freedom I think, and it's a shame that I think you've just let a little of it turn to dust without even crying out.
Observation from the other side of the Atlantic from one who has spent lots of time in the USA: you are a nation with immense human resource, huge innovative potential and a spirit of “can do” which the rest of us need to emulate. I think you’ve forgotten all of this recently but this little despondent period will soon pass into history.
Paint burnt oil ...used oil especially out of diesel, your tractor. Great job. Nice and black in color. I've seen it done. Great job. Love the tools. Great video
Was about to click off the video at the end when i learned all the info about the tools. However i stayed to hear your opinion on the election. Stay strong! This country is stronger and better in times of turmoil and dismay. Thanks for the video. It's helping me determine what i need to do to set up my small farm. This climate today has me wanting to be a traditional American. Thanks again 🇺🇸
It's dark outside and I now have the urge to strip bark and build me a fence and eat something! Wonder if Mrs. W would like små skog as a name for your small forest.
What a tool, that was awesome! You said what you needed to Cody, don't dwell on the election, do good where you can. I don't think you need to say anymore on that subject than you just did. Great work as usual!
I want to start off by saying thank you for the hard work you and your family do to create the content you all provide. I purchased the mortise and tenon tool in the description, but cannot find the tool you are using at 18:20 to hide the mortise. Would you by any chance have a link to that bit or what it is called? I have googled and looked on Amazon with no results. Thank you for your time and God bless!
We do the same thing with cedar fence post here back east! It’s nice because they don’t really rot. It takes a long long time for them to give up the ghost.
