Unearthing 200 Year Old Foundations: Bedrock On Our Homestead

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Join us as we continue on our hard task to clear the soil and stone piles to finally unearth the 200-year-old foundation on our homestead in Ireland. Watch as Ben finds more of the bedrock, the very foundation of our once derelict farmhouse and 200 year old stone outbuildings.
Showing the various high patches of the bedrock in the road at the front of the farmhouse and shows an exposed corner stone of the house. Ben starts to wonder how the farmhouse and outbuildings were built on this massive rock. Drainage will be an issue around the house.
With so much digging to do, we take the time to plant the saved blackcurrents from last week in exactly the same place we removed them from. Makes no sense does it? It will!
"Unearthing 200 Year Old Foundations: Bedrock On Our Homestead" shows the determination of us both (more so Dawn) in getting to the bottom of these very old buildings. Once this area is cleared, We can look at drainage options on this part of the land.
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@kathryncooper7452 3 месяца назад

Good to see Ben putting his back into some work! Good progess.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

I thought I should show willing :-)

@cynthiabruns7178 3 месяца назад

You two must sleep well at night after working away so hard in your garden. The back of the outbuildings looks great, it must be so satisfying to rediscover the progress every time you come out in the morning.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi Cynthia, thank you for commenting (I do miss the pink hand though) Yes, we sleep really well after a day / month / 8 months of it. But to be fair, we have never slept better since moving here. It is silent at night until the birds start in the morning and have a real bed after 6 months was a game changer to sleeping longer. It is lovely to go out and see what yesterdays work gained, but sadly tomorrow morning will be different, as we have left it in a mess. It will be fine I am sure. Thank you for always being with us :-)

@TheHavasu_77 3 месяца назад

Maybe with any extra dirt you take out from behind those out buildings, spread it along your walking path where the wood chips went, over time, that path will become higher up in elevation and water won’t puddle over it. Maybe eventually you could even relocate the extra stones as well to the walking path! I can’t believe what a huge transformation you’ve done to your land already, absolutely beautiful you guys!! 😊💚✨

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

"Maybe with any extra dirt you take out from behind those out buildings, spread it along your walking path where the wood chips went, over time, that path will become higher up in elevation and water won’t puddle over it.".............. What a great idea. The woodchip path is lovely and firm at the moment as we haven't had any rain really since the snow but it is due to rain for the next few days. At the moment we have a plan for the dirt but we may have extra so might just be using your idea. I also need to make some more wood chippings, not sure we have enough wood to chip though lol. Thank you so much for watching and commenting and hope everything is OK with you :-)

@TheHavasu_77 3 месяца назад

@@thecornerhouseprojectI’m sure you’ll also see more wood chips in your future as well, just keep adding layers of the stuff you don’t know what to do with! You could even make it a little wider as well, so you could walk side by side along it! 😊❤

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Aww I like that idea…instead of just single file! 🤣

@lindahill9215 3 месяца назад

It's so exciting watching you two uncovering your treasures. Today prime roses, they would look beautiful on the wall. Keep up the good HARD work...😊

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

So many "treasures" or "Dawn's tat" as I call it. She certainly has a collection now, and even I like some of the bits. Primroses on the wall would look great wouldn't they, there weren't any plants like that but wonder if with the moss being so thick that they just couldn't grow.... apart from the few wild strawberries. We will keep on working and Dawn working HARD... I do the easy bits hahaha. Thank you Linda for watching and commenting and hope to see you Wednesday :-)

@bobbiebrandel3152 3 месяца назад

I think it looks marvelous. Don't sell yourself short; that was a ton of work!

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you 🤩 it was definitely a hard slog. Another big pile for tomorrow to get through, fingers crossed tomorrow we can have it almost done 🤞😮‍💨 if not there’s always the next day! 🤣

@user-gs4yi3le6p 3 месяца назад

It may not look it to you but as a sofa observer I can see a big difference. Well done XX

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

I wish we were sitting on your sofa watching lol. There is a big change, just a slow change. Today looks better and hopefully tomorrow will look better still. Unlikely finished but we will try. Hope you are well :-) xx

@wandakoehorst8734 3 месяца назад

Those ancient walls scream of being repaired with the stones you've excavated and repointed with lime morter and the roofs put back on. Especially the high, tall building alongside the path. I can hardly wait till you strip the ivy off and we all can see how that looks like. What was it originally. This would create a magnificent area with all those reroofed and repointed buildings.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

They really do scream that don't they and Dawn is just itching to get started with the lime pointing as soon as the weather allows. Some of the inside walls need rebuilding too, especially where the old Ash tree was. For the age they are incredible though. Although a lot of lime has washed away between the stones, there is still some lime in there, but they won't need any racking back. The smaller building with the walkway has a flat roof but it will be nice to get new roofing for it. The big outbuilding this video mainly showed will look amazing with a new roof. Thank you for watching and commenting today :-)

@wandakoehorst8734 3 месяца назад

@@thecornerhouseproject every vlog is a great joy to watch and be witness of your amazing progress and achievement

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you very much indeed :-)

@colinchick2692 3 месяца назад

I can understand the frustration that very little seems to be being achieved with so much work but you are making progress - ivy roots are so difficult to remove but you are doing it! I just admire your persistence.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you for your really kind words! 😊 Oh we definitely have buckets of persistence 😂 once we get 3 quarters of the way through I think we will be good again lol it’s that just starting a big job overwhelming feeling of “oh this is going to take a long while!” Oh my goodness some of those Ivy roots are monstrous too!

@rosannehart7325 3 месяца назад

You are incredible. The amount of sweat labour you have put into clearing the land is amazing. I was so excited to see around the outbuildings and the rock base. I am keeping my fingers crossed that it goes to the end of it. Have a good week.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much Rosanne. We knew when we got here that it was going to be a lot of work getting it under control, but with a few curve balls in there, like finding bedrock make it that little bit more interesting and challenging, but very enjoyable and a lovely way to find out everything about the land there is to know. We are learning each day, speculating each day and then finally discovering the result and believe it or not, although loose, we actually have a plan hahaha. The bedrock, at the moment, seems to be high at the right end as you look at it but really low on the opposite end of buildings (I had a little peek today). So this may answer how they build these houses and building on uneven ground using stones. We are loving it :-) More tomorrow and a new video Wednesday, hopefully see you then :-) Thank you for watching and commenting.

@dorygeancunningham8027 3 месяца назад

I remember somewhere in my history classes about how a good portion of Ireland was on hard rock and how farmers near the sea used seaweed to creat soil so they could have gardens. I’m wondering if 200+ years ago when the owners of that land built their buildings there and it was all on exposed rock and between animal dung and leaves and such the eventual built enough earth to have a garden behind the house…golly, don’t you wish the owners kept a diary or journal, but most likely the original owners were simple folk, just trying to survive. I’m wondering if the channeled out a gully in the rock from the “slurry hole”. You’ve probably already checked knowing you two. See ya Wednesday.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Wow I didn’t know that with the seaweed! I would think your summary of how the soil became what it is today is probably right, because I would think a lot of the soil out there has come from the last 20 or so years of the vegetation dying back, rotting down and then sprouting new life and the cycle keeps being repeated because no one is there to tend to it. Oh so many times I’ve said to Ben I wish there were records of how it looked 200 years ago around here and how the land was laid out too. I find that sort of thing fascinating. I don’t think there is a channeled out gully…but I must admit I haven’t actually checked…will have to do that once we’ve had a good bit of rain to wash all the soil off. I love your comments…I like the way your mind wanders whilst you are watching to how things were years and years ago, my mind works like that too. I have looked at all the censuses and other associated records but it’s not the same as a written account or a photograph is it? 😘

@gailreece9670 2 месяца назад

Wow Dawn you are doing amazing job.😊

@thecornerhouseproject 2 месяца назад

Nobody can say Dawn isn't a worker haha. The trouble is, she doesn't know when to stop. Thank you again for catching up and commenting :-)

@TrudiShearin-wr6wk 2 месяца назад

You need to find a local farmer that is upgrading to a larger tractor and wants to sell his smaller one. Or go to the rental company and see if they want to get rid of a rental. Our tractor has been a huge help on our five acres. A really sharp axe would have been great for those roots. We have dealt with a ton of stumps/roots. Your hard work shows. Looks great!❤

@thecornerhouseproject 2 месяца назад

Thank you ❤️ We’ve only got an acre or just under an acre so I’m not sure we will need a tractor, although I can’t deny it would have come in handy sooo many times! We do have an axe but there’s also lots of stones in the soil so we didn’t want to blunt the axe as we don’t have a sharpener at the moment. 🫣

@Bently2849 3 месяца назад

My goodness guys!!! What an extraordinary job you are doing in uncovering the base rock and the "slurry" hole... The area looks awesome and it really is going a long way to cleaning up the entrance to the garden from the outbuildings. It may take a lot longer to get it where you want it but certainly is a great start. I am so excited for you and at the same time in awe of all the energy and time you have expended to get it where it is. I hope you are very pleased with how it looks and are having a bit of a rest before beginning again tomorrow. Look forward to seeing you on Wednesday and seeing what else you have accomplished between now and then. Have a good couple of days and take care. Take care!

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Good evening Cristy, how are you? Thank you very much. Well we try to do a job in a normal but the job tends to then turn into use feeling the need to remove every last root, or bit of ivy in a tree, or something else. We do tend to go over the top a little bit but we just do. It doesn't matter what Dawn does, it has to be done to perfection, from cleaning the house to digging the land. We came inside early yesterday but later this evening. When I say later, we aren't talking WestCorkWander late, just later than normal hahaha. We will most certainly see you Wednesday, hopefully with a close to finished bit of land. Thank you so much Cristy :-)

@WestCorkWander 3 месяца назад

Ahh Ben thanks for the shout out ☺️ Im not sure we have anymore blossom than you guys down here amd all the wind and rain today hasnt helped. Dont the stone walls look amazing, so beautiful. That heap you guys are shifting looks like a real tough one, but when you have conquered it, it will make a massive difference. I bet the cats love the garden, lots if places to hide and spy from. You could take a little off those blackcurrants that you planted, get a bit move energy to the roots rather than the shoots, as the shoots will double that height in the summer. Looking down the garden from the top, it looks like you have a big green lawn where you mowed, that will be really lovely in the summer x

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Aww no I read that your area might be hit with some wind and rain. We’ve had rain most of the day today, not torrential but very welcome as we’d almost run out of water! 😳 so we’re quite pleased it came. Got up a little windy earlier but not too bad. Ahh yes those stone walls look bloody lovely 🥰 I’m quite in awe of how beautiful they are! Need some fixing up here and there but hopefully once the warmer weather gets here we can get on with doing them. Oh my goodness yes it’s been tough going….all the roots from the Ash tree had grown all that way and that’s what it mainly consisted of, in hindsight after reaching the bedrock…we can see why they found their way into that big pile of soil! I haven’t let the cats out on their own yet 🙁 they do have harnesses though lol one of them loves to go out, the other two aren’t too fussed on it lol once we get some gates around the house…I’ll be happier to let them out and about. Thank you with the blackcurrants…that’s great advice…will do that…it was a bit of an experiment as I cut some off to keep and wondered if they would take off from just putting them in the ground because they just seem to sprout out of nothing! Yes, the grass isn’t the best, mainly couch grass and doesn’t seem attached to the soil below very well lol but it looks pretty good and seems to do well even under water. Since finding the bedrock below it makes sense as to why it doesn’t root very far down 🤣 x

@neutonrenda2303 3 месяца назад

That's the widest rake I've ever seen.👍

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

If you are going to have one Neauton.... make it a big one lol. We have two of them. The small rake, which we need a second, is great for pulling roots and moving small amounts of dirt. The BIG rake is for moving gravel and is good with moving the piles of soil. It is hard work in the end but does move a lot of stuff. Thank you as always :-)

@FrinkyBaby 3 месяца назад

If you paint the handles of your garden tools bright orange or yellow, they would be easier to find when left out. I’ve done it, and it seems to help.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Good evening Barbara and what a great idea you have. I think the problem in this instance was me haha which is why I was quick to hold my hand up. Normally we collect it all up at the end of the day maybe in one or two places... that day... I didn't. It was in plain sight luckily as if it wasn't for Dawn, I would still be looking. Thank you for joining us tonight and hopefully see you Wednesday :-)

@annaburke5781 3 месяца назад

a brilliant job. looks great. compared to when you moved in the progress is amazing. big hugs hi to the family and Cats bless

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you! It’s funny because you forget how much has been done or I definitely do and then I’ll see old footage and think “hmm, yes we have done a fair bit so far” I’ll tell the cats you said hi…they are snoring their little fluffy heads off at the moment!

@ce1581 3 месяца назад

You've got plenty of extra dirt to fill the low boggy spots in the rest of the garden 😊 silver linings ❣️

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Plenty of dirt that is for sure :-)

@jmck6320 3 месяца назад

Our house in the Dromara hills is built on a monster rock as is the cottage in donegal. We are at the same stage of hoking out all the soil build up and discoveing old way that the builders managed drainage....interesting times 😂

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

It’s quite amazing isn’t it with rock beneath! I know it’s probably not great to be exposing it but it’s very nice to know that we’ve reached the bottom, not so great for drainage I suspect! We’re hoping that once we’ve levelled it all out and the rain comes we will see where the drainage needs to be and then try and get some in here and there! All fun eh? Looking forward to when we can get the other pile flattened down! Good luck with yours too!

@angellabutler6449 3 месяца назад

It looks like you’ve done a lot to me. You two work very hard. ❤️👏👏

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you Angella. It is a lot done but took sooooooo long and didn't feel like we achieved much. Today was a better day though and hopefully tomorrow we can really make a difference. We will see though. Thank you for watching and commenting. Hopefully see you Wednesday?

@christinerowlands539 3 месяца назад

Geezes you guys work hard, Can't believe the change, awesome job. Love from Aunty Chrissy Uncle Dave and families xxx 🌹 😘😘

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

We are getting there Auntie Chris xxx

@jamesgause9546 3 месяца назад

You really should consider a mini digger now as they can level the soft dirt out and level the land in a day. Whereas it will take you weeks do it as slow as it’s taking you with so many roots and all. A good digger handler can be very gentle when need be. If that wall is so precarious and dangerous you’re better go find out now than to have it topple over either one of you and out back working on it for weeks or months if your lucky to not get hurt too much. Be safe!

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi James You are right with how careful a good handler can be. We watched the young lad doing our electric pole and he really knew how to use it. But, we have broken it's back now and hopefully tomorrow will be a big change to how it looks on the video. The corner of the building is stable enough to get it repaired / rebuilt inside before removing the pile of dirt we have left for now. It is a priority though and we are just waiting for the weather. Thanks for always watching and commenting James :-)

@jaymanishere 3 месяца назад

To get through at least some of your roots, I have always used a reciprocating saw with a "pruning" blade. Unlike most saws the dirt won't hurt the pruning blade. I've used this method for cutting tree roots and everything else.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Absolutely love the reciprocating saw for the this kind of work…it’s been invaluable for all the work that we’ve done on the land. I think it’s the tool we’ve used the most. I didn’t use it this time just because there were a lot of stones in the pile as well and the mattock worked really well slicing through the roots, downside is…it’s very heavy to use over and over! 😂

@heatherlee1128 3 месяца назад

Your doing a grand job uncovering history on your homestead beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi Heather Thank you so much, we are really enjoying it too, learning from this and that, land, house, taking our time and just enjoying why we moved here. A change of life and a change of pace. Thank you so much for watching and commenting tonight. Hopefully see you Wednesday :-)

@10928rob 3 месяца назад

Working hard. I can really see the difference you have made, after seeing those old clips, showing what it was like when you first arrived , when the going gets tuff the tuff get going seriously, tho you are doing great, well done xxx♥

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Yeah it’s good to look back at the old stuff because then it makes you realise that have actually done quite a lot. It’s definitely been a tough one this bit, we’ll be both very glad when it’s all done I think. 😂 almost there now Pa 😊😘😘xxx

@10928rob 3 месяца назад

@@thecornerhouseproject ❤️

@chickenlady3155 3 месяца назад

I found the garden fork at @19:01 and I hereby claim my prize! 😀

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Congratulations Chicken Lady, thank you for taking part in the "Where is the garden fork" game. Here is your prize: www.quirkycrate.com/cdn/shop/products/ScreenShot2022-11-08at3.40.06PM.png?v=1667940158 On a serious note, thank you for watching, commenting and making us laugh. Also, may I ask why you are called Chicken Lady? Thanks again :-)

@glenysgibbs8089 3 месяца назад

You have made incredible progress. Don't get discouraged you have done so much I keep looking at the first videos and wow!!!!

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi Glenys, thank you for lovely comments. We do the same, we go back and look at older videos, sometime for reference, like the land photos and drone bit for this video and we get reminded of what we have achieved. We also go WOW what terrible quality the sound and video was. A bit like the land and the house will be at some point.... we got there in the end. Thank you again and hope to see you Wednesday :-)

@cathyagain5841 3 месяца назад

Excellent progress.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you! 🤩😘

@kategreen-adarkcarnival6747 3 месяца назад

Well done both! Work like this is going to be slow going and a bit tedious I guess, but the land is revealing her secrets and the building approaches from long ago. It's interesting. It does look as if properties were perhaps purposefully built on stone? You're really getting to know your land working in this way. Love your upbeat and positive outlook and the music is great! Kxx

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you Kate. I get bored so easily and only keep going because Dawn makes me look week hahaha. Yes, the house was built here because of the bedrock. Across the road in the field also had buildings. In fact, all of the building that were here from the start were built on the rock, the maps don't really show any other buildings off the rock. Oh we are certainly learning about it all, it really is interesting. I never thought I would get excited over bedrock lol. Thank you for watching commenting on our videos. Oh, PS.... may I ask if you only sing or do you play instruments too? (Yes, I had a bit of a nosey)

@deirdrecerasa3932 3 месяца назад

I think you both are doing amazing work! ❤

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you 😊😘

@marionmounsey4737 3 месяца назад

Wow you have worked so hard… the outside of the buildings look beautiful, in time it will all look stunning🤩 we appreciate all the videos and the hard work that goes into them, just love watching your progress. I live in Portland, the stone is just the same, but so beautiful. Well done Dawn and Ben ❤xx

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you Marion! Aww yes, we are a little bit in love with those buildings! They’re so beautiful…and we can’t wait to get them all fixed up and with a new roof on the one that’s missing its roof. Fingers crossed we can make it work. Ben does a great job with the editing but yes you’re right it does take a fair while, so it’s very much appreciated that you would say that and it means a lot that you did. ❤️xx

@PaxPixie7 3 месяца назад

Great job, you two! You did a lot of hard work.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you 🤩❤️

@joanobrien7754 3 месяца назад

Oh my, you guys do need a mini digger...

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hahahaha you would think so wouldn't you. We have it scared now Joan don't worry hahaha. Thanks for commenting. Hopefully when you come back Wednesday it will look different. :-)

@Shae26572 3 месяца назад

More amazing work!!

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

🔥🥳 Thank you! 🤩

@the.artist.donaldb 3 месяца назад

You should use your chipper / shredder to breakdown all those ivy vines and roots and build a compost pile. You are making progress though by loosening the soil around those invasive roots.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

They’re a right pain aren’t they the Ivy! Yeah we will get to that giant pile and get it chipped down as best we can. There’s so much vegetation to deal with that it’s a bit overwhelming to be honest. 😂 fingers crossed we are nearly there with getting the whole lot cleared and under control…this is the last little part to get done and should be so much easier to keep on top of it now 😊

@andie1769 3 месяца назад

I can see a beautiful patio in your future! Great job! 😊

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you! Ooh that would be lovely wouldn’t it? Fingers crossed 🤞 somewhere to sit and just ‘be’ 😘

@annematten7218 Месяц назад

Onwards and upwards, given time, Dawn I think you could take down the Himalayas.

@thecornerhouseproject Месяц назад

Hahaha, I think you could be right Anne, there isn't much that Dawn won't have a go at. Actually, I don't think there has been anything she won't have a go at, if not just do it. I said it months ago on a video but I wouldn't be without her :) Thank you Anne for joining us :-)

@dianerayburn1728 3 месяца назад

You could have a new signature tune. Rock of Ages :) :) :)

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

🤣 I like it! 😘

@millystapleton6603 3 месяца назад

Hi Dawn & Ben, love watching your hard work. I think the pile of roots etc have grown from when the dung etc from the cowshed or byre was put through the window where the slates are now. The bottom one was for the slurry and the other one was where straw or bedding was used when the animals were in for the winter and to make life easier for the farmers the dung was put through the whole for quickness. I spent some years in Co Monaghan as a young child and this is what I remember. Hope that helps.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi Milly 😊 it is hard work but definitely worth it when you stand back and take a look at what you’ve managed to get through. Ahh yes that would make sense the soil seems very fertile around there and the worms love it! Big fat ones! That helps hugely thank you! Makes sense why such a large window too. I like learning things like this. We were amazed when we cleared that outbuilding to find all the flag stones and the slurry gulley. Such a shame when the roof fell in after clearing all the Ivy off!

@DenisPeel 3 месяца назад

You guys have made huge progress even if you don't think so, I was willing Dawn on to get to the ground level, well done you that was tough going. That area has potential to be a lovely private area with views of your vast domain. The pointy thing is one of the "fingers" of the finger-bar of your mower, depending on the length of the finger bar there could be anywhere from 15 to 20 fingers. the cutting blade was a thin strip of metal with triangular blades riveted to it which would be moved very fast from side to side by the gears of the machine, the thin gap behind the point is where the blade moved. The points (fingers) stopped the grass from just moving to the side when the blade hits it. Eventually you will find all of it. I have no clue about the wheel but if it is from a Rolls-Royce I hope you find the rest of it! Denis

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Aww thank you Denis! It’s one of those things isn’t it? Whilst you’re in the midst of it, it feels too vast to even think you will get to the end of it, but eventually you do and it is getting there but not as quickly as our minds and bodies want it to! 🤣 oh it really was tough going and I must admit I was glad when I felt that bedrock! Well funny you should say that…as that is exactly our plan with that area, it felt the right place to do it the first time we “saw” it in May last year. Surrounded by all that magnificent stone, it’ll be lovely! 🥰 We knew you’d know what it is and fingers crossed we come across the rest on our travels around. We feel like we found the cutting blade last year but can’t remember if we kept it or not. Fingers crossed we did! Those fingers are a bit of art all by theirselves aren’t they?! Love them! Isn’t machinery or the people that invent it bloody clever! Haha well maybe we will find out that higher spot where we are working at the moment holds a rolls eh?!

@ANGELAFYFFE-ei3nm 3 месяца назад

Dawn and Ben. You work so hard and even though it’s back breaking stuff, you never complain and put us all to shame sitting at our laptop watching 😂 Are you friends with the farmer across the way? I would ask him if you can borrow the digger or if someone could help you dig the land. I can’t see any reason for him to object.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Haha, there are times where we take a breather and say ‘running out of steam now’ and then we get back to it 😂 because the longer we procrastinate about it the longer it takes and things taking a long time aren’t my favourite! 🤣 Yeah we’re friends with both of them and I’m sure if we asked they would be happy to help but we’re also conscious of churning up the land too much and we’re almost there now. We might once we’ve pulled it all back and decide in the dryer weather that we want to rejig things, I have a feeling we might just get machinery in then 😂 not sure we can do this again!

@marypower8009 3 месяца назад

Would you consider hiring a mini digger for a day or two? Seems you're given yourselves a lot of hard work.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

We have, one day we think it might be the way forward, at the end of the day we have moved forward and don't think it will help much now. The benefit of doing it manually is what we learn as we go and the bits we find while digging, maybe a coin, like today, a lump of metal something which belongs to the grass cutting machine further down the land or maybe just something else. It would have been much quicker but now we have pretty much won... I think. Thank you Mary for watching and commenting today. Hopefully see you for Wednesdays video :-)

@morrigans_cottage 3 месяца назад

I can’t believe my froggies got a mention in a video haha! Honestly you guys are doing some incredible work on that house, it might feel like you’re making slow progress but it looks so incredibly good compared to the footage you have from last year! You’re breathing a new lease of life into land and houses/out buildings ❤

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Aww there were sooo many little froggies they couldn’t go unmentioned! Thank you, it does feel slow whilst you’re doing it and I’m not the most patient person in the world either lol but when I do see old footage I do see that we’ve done a fair bit, I just need to remind myself of it now and again 😂❤️

@neutonrenda2303 3 месяца назад

It will be so much easier to keep a hand on it once it's all cleared and flat, before it all starts growing back. If you have all those piles there and it starts to grow again, it will look like you haven't been there yet. 👍

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

It really will. Today I was cutting the brambles under the soil and into their roots. Each one had started to grow. We will get rid as much of we can before it grows back or grows too much. Like you say, with the piles gone it will be easier to spot the weeds coming back (and the ivy). Thank you as always :-)

@mnamber 3 месяца назад

Love what you’re doing and I love watching it all unfold. I love your channel ❤❤

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Aww thank you! We’re really glad you do, it means a lot to us 😘

@tracybush8115 3 месяца назад

All the work by the outbuildings shows really well - good for you guys. Rock is cool. You'll have a nice supply of black currants this year no doubt.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Yeah fingers crossed with the blackcurrants…I would think come next year some of the ones we cut down will be showing theirselves again. I’d like a good patch of them once we get sorted properly. Aww I’m glad it shows up well….it all sort of merges into a muddy mess when you’re hanging over the top of it! 🤣

@GayleRussell20 3 месяца назад

Don't sell yourselves short. You have accomplished so much both in the house and on the land. Great job!

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you for saying that, it’s very kind of you! We have a long way to go but so pleased with what we have done so far 😊

@gunkarlsson4762 3 месяца назад

Here's an idea....put a glassroof over the stoneruin, it would be an excellent place to grow things in.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

I did say to Dawn a few weeks ago that we will need to use clear plastic sheets to let the light in when we put a new roof on it. A glass roof would be amazing. I would spend most of my time in there as it would be soooo warm. Thank you for watching and commenting today :)

@Joannafwatson 3 месяца назад

So I think the buildings you refer to as outbuildings are probably the original farmhouse; 18th century farmhouses here in the Highlands (Scotland) were divided in two; one side for the family and one side for the animals. This looks pretty much the same layout. .. Just a suggestion here, but why don’t you hire a mini digger for a day or two to get that section cleared? You’re putting so much effort in, but a mini digger would take a lot less effort and save you load of hassle. especially with the bloody ivy!

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi Joanna, thank you so much for watching and commenting. Yes you could be right with the buildings, certainly the one with the ivy on due to where it's windows are. I am not sure if anyone still alive will know the answer to if they were split, but an educated guess would be the same presumption as yours. The more we do, the more a mini digger is needed less and less. It would make work easier but we wouldn't get to pull out the little bits of history we find, none of value in the least, but a bit of the history of what was this farm. Dawns "treasures" are building up in the window at the moment and range from a nice bottle, probably of no real age to a lump of metal which is a nice shape.... oooh, she found a coin today, eyes like a hawk. If the area was scraped we would have a pile at one end to either sort through or leave or flat area covered in sticks, ivy roots and rocks and would all need sorting through. At the moment it is a controlled mess hahaha. If all of that makes sense. Thank you again for joining us :-)

@Marie-yx5ie 3 месяца назад

You both have an amazing job, your land looks fabulous 👏👏👏To you both 👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Aww thank you! 🤩 we’re really pleased with how its looking now! Sooo close to the end line now too! 🍀❤️

@Cuernavacachica02 3 месяца назад

Dawn, you two rock!!!! Literally lolol!! It's so fun to see the exploration - so many questions at seeing so many new things around the property. I'm with you on that corner! I can't wait to see what you'll find in there! Have you clipped off the bottoms of the vines so that they'll die on their own, or are you leaving them there? Do you think you might be able to save the ivy-covered building or is it a loss? Carry on with all the hard work, guys! It's really paying off! I feel the spirit of your outbuildings saying Yay! We're loved again! Watched two videos today and loved them! I'm catching up!

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hahaha thank you! I have a feeling in that pile will be lots of stones from the wall and also lots of roots from the ash tree that had to be cut down. Fingers crossed for something exciting as well though! 😂 We’ve cut all the ones on the outbuilding without a roof, and before i repoint that we will carefully remove some of what we can remove without loosening the stones. The other outbuilding I was looking at today, we need to cut through those at the bottom to kill that Ivy off. We will leave most of that in place as it’s not our building and I’d hate to do something that made it drop stones. Our outbuildings are looking really good now, no Ivy on them and no earth pushed up against their walls! Really pleased to have gotten that away from the walls. ❤️

@Oregontrailblazin 3 месяца назад

So Exciting !

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Always exciting. Never a dull moment at The Corner House lol :-)

@evelyngorfram9306 3 месяца назад

You've accomplished a huge amount. You've moved a huge amount of soil & other material, cleared the wall & the slurry hole, decapitated the self-made staging pile, created some large flat areas, and you're *down to bedrock* in several places. I keep thinking back to one of the first videos, when Dawn "discovered" that little shed on the end - a entire stone building that you hadn't even known you had. What a huge long way you've come, in really just a few months. I keep wondering, do you know what the building that runs along the roadway (the one you don't own) was used for? It looks like it's very narrow - maybe six to ten feet wide? - & I'm trying to imagine why it would built that way. For housing really skinny cows? Storing the spaghetti crop? (Of course, it's perfectly okay if you don't know.) Thanks for another video - I'll see you Wednesday!

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Well….when you put it like that….it does seem a lot! Oh and the bedrock! Ben is very very excited about that! I must admit it’s lovely to see because it means there’s no more digging to be done! Yay! It seems such a long time ago that we found that other building! No, we’re not sure what that building was used for but I’m sure we could find out as we are in touch with the people who lived here before, it’s been built very well so I wonder if it was a dwelling at some point or at least part of it, but I must say I like the idea that it was built for cows that were of the smaller persuasion! Or even the spaghetti crops…that reminds me I must start planting ours! I will try and find out for you. The farmer who owns it now may know as well, normally see him most days so will see if he knows 😊 because I’d be interested too 😂 No problem at all with the video…plenty more digging to do so will “see” you Wednesday!

@user-pp5qo7by9t 3 месяца назад

Great work again. It all takes time look forward to the next part. All the best

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you! Yeah does take a little while…sooo many roots to chop on through! 🫣

@alanlucas2886 3 месяца назад

hi dawn and ben happy monday

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi Alan HAPPY MONDAY. How did you sleep in your new bed?

@alanlucas2886 3 месяца назад

@@thecornerhouseproject it was nice tho new bedding aswell im getting there

@jameskyle380 3 месяца назад

I wonder if the outbuilding were the house originally? Unusual to have the outbuildings blocking the view of your garden. Be interesting to see what was there originally or know if the house was rebuilt in the position it was now.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

200 odd years ago the outbuildings didn’t have anything in front of them as far as we can tell from old maps. So I would think it might have been the main dwelling. Our house was built around a 100 years ago as the family grew I suppose. There were soooo many buildings around this little area on the old maps but not too much remains anymore.

@neutonrenda2303 3 месяца назад

Great progress again, it's a huge difference and it makes such a difference to how it looks. Looked like hard going, so well done.👍❤

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

A big difference and hopefully by Wednesday you will see a big change. We have high hopes for tomorrow and is also the last day of filming stuff for Wednesday evening, so best we do a good job. Thanks again :-)

@theirishhomestead 3 месяца назад

Love the stone barns. They remind me so much of our house & barns. Feels like it was all the work of the same team! ❤

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

They are beautiful aren’t they? I’m a bit in awe of them to be honest! Well ya never know we’re not too far from each other. 😉❤️

@SweetOne. 3 месяца назад

don't be scared to clear out the area between the building where the dry stone wall is. It is most likely bedrock there too and if you chop down through the root pile without pulling at it, the wall should stand, especially with the garden wall up against it. Then you can use that area to pile stone until you are ready to work on the outbuilding. (starting at the wall dig it down as far as you can and back fill it with stone, working your way out from the wall and into the corner as deep as you can while back filling with stone as you go. 1 foot square dug out fill with stone - 1 foot square dug out fill with stone. repeat until you have cleared between the buildings where the ash was.) I'm so impressed with you both already, that is really hard work behind that building and some of that pile was already there when you got there. So many bins were filled with the junk from those buildings, If you two could clean all that you can do this no problem!

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you Janie. As always with the good and practical advice. I’m so scared of it all falling in, we wonder if the timber we have within the building is actually holding it place too. 🫣 I might try and do what you suggested as it will make it a lot easier to have that area cleared to be able to get a proper look at it. To be able to repair it we have to empty the outbuilding too, that could take some time and definitely a job for the warmer weather lol I’m so looking forward to rebuilding that wall but also so scared at the same time of getting it wrong! I was thinking of liming what already stands from the inside of the outer wall to secure that first and then start the slow process of rebuilding the inner wall bit by bit with the rubble course in between. How do you think that will go? 😘

@SweetOne. 3 месяца назад

@@thecornerhouseproject Lime pointing the outer wall from the inside and then from the outside before repairing the inside wall would be the best way to go, but without that dirt moved first it's hard to say if the stones are properly in place to actually do that. Even if it falls - It can be rebuilt, It's only stones and mortar.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

lol I love how nonchalant you are about it being just stones and mortar and you’re right….but wow it’s scary as hell to me that it might fall! Hahaha maybe one day when I’ve repaired a few I can be that way too. 🤞😘

@SweetOne. 3 месяца назад

@@thecornerhouseproject You will LOL remember your first floor joist and then your last floor joist. You are both amazing. Build one of those outside bar-b-que thingies first and maybe practice with a small piece of garden wall in a area where you don't have one and want one. Building confidence to build a wall to add a roof on an outbuilding. You can both do this - I have no doubts. Even Masters make mistakes - that's how they learn their skills and tricks.

@SweetOne. 3 месяца назад

Tesla, Eddison, Ford, and even Elon Musk have failed more times than they succeeded, it's what made them successful. (pep talk between friends) Love you Guys!!!

@sharonheron7559 3 месяца назад

Great job 👏🏼 getting at the ivy and tree roots with the shears was a good move! Looking forward to celebrating a flat yard with you! 🎉

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Good evening Sharon, how are you this evening? Well it may not all be flat, well, on the same level as we have a bit of a plan but will see what tomorrow brings. The area raked in this video will be flat though, or something close to flat. Yes, cutting the roots away is great as hopefully it will either kill it or slow it down so we can control it. Thank you as always for joining us. See you Wednesday we hope :-)

@mocarra100 3 месяца назад

You guys have done such a great job, that place was a mess in the garden. My gosh, I'm amazed, how big the property is. You guys are going to get this looking beautiful. Much love from Oklahoma USA Jackie. PS I still cannot believe how much work you've both have done. Just think of your first days living in a tent and now look how far you've come. Does slurry mean poop?

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Aww thanks Jackie! Oh it really was…me removing all those brambles and blackcurrants made quite a mess too lol It is a big place, it looks quite imposing peaking above the outbuildings! It should look really good when we’re finished and hopefully back to how it used to be years ago. Oh I know it feels like such an age ago that we were sleeping in the tent! ⛺️ and you’ve been there all the way with us! So thank you Jackie! Haha…Yes slurry is poop! 💩

@annecanty1227 3 месяца назад

Maybe you could mark out a raised bed area parallel to the blackcurrant patch and stream ,obviously there's a depth of soil in that area.Maybe 1 meter wide and 15/20 meters long.Fill it with deadwood and top it with the compost ( looks really good) u removed from the barn.Start a small garden?

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

That sounds like a good plan Anne. Yes the soil that came out of the outbuildings is amazing. The soil today that we’ve been digging out is soo good right up outside the outbuilding. We do have plans for growing things, not sure what yet but I know we need to get a wriggle on! lol so thank you for that. It’s a good area for a veg garden. The more I think about it, the more I think that would look lovely over there! ❤️

@LindaAndrews128 3 месяца назад

Your videos are getting better all the time! Glad you’re back to a humane pace so you can have a life besides yard work and RU-vid! Keep your chins up! You’re an amazing team.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Aww thank you Linda, that’s very much appreciated that you would say that. Ben spends a lot of time getting them right, so he will be pleased to hear that. 😘 As much as we liked doing the daily videos, you’re right because it has been nice having the pressure of it taken off and be able to do things at a more leisurely pace.

@davidcuttle4340 3 месяца назад

I notice you are struggling a bit cutting through the Ivy. I use a long handled square mouth shovel for all my digging, I file it so that it is sharp as a razor and over the years I have even sliced through bamboo roots like a knife through butter so cutting through ivy or tree roots would not be a problem . I will admit I don’t know if these shovels are in general use everywhere. I live in Australia and many use them. 😊😊

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Ahh wow! I would not have thought about that, thanks for that it’s definitely something we will think about as some of those roots are real hard going. We hope that once we get to the other side of the outbuilding doorway it shouldn’t be so hard because we are away from the ash tree roots that I’ve been chopping through the last couple of days. I think we can buy those sort of shovels over here too, so next time we are at the hardware store we will have a look for one for future stuff. Thanks again and thanks for commenting! 😊

@simonworthington5162 3 месяца назад

Dam what a difference the garden is looking and getting it lowered is very impressive. With all that daily work must make you sleep well. The house of many tools put to work it seems. Keep it up and enjoying whats been found. Is that a LUMP on the back of your head as DAWN was giving you motivation ?? Doing well and always love to see you both at work.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

It’s been hard going at times but it starting to look really good there now. It’s been something we’ve been wanting to tackle for a while but kept looking at it and thinking “🤨 hmm that’s going to take a while” but really good to be finally getting it flat again! Oh yes, definitely sleep well 😴 Lots of tools, one or two tools is never enough! Haha…we thought no one would notice that lump haha…must get Ben to wear his hat next time! 😉

@markanderson3006 3 месяца назад

Fantastic work, you are both doing a great job, heck of a lot of hard work, it's starting to look amazing

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you Mark. One thing we always new was the house was going to be a lot of work to renovate it, it turns out the land is not just a lot of work, it is a lot of hard work. But, we are enjoying every step of the way. Once we get this little bit done, we can go and sort the wood piles we have left further down in the main area and then we can hopefully go WOW. Thank you for commenting tonight and hopefully see you Wednesday :-)

@TrudiShearin-wr6wk 2 месяца назад

A lot of that dirt may be manure from inside the stone building/animals. Probably some good garden soil.😉

@thecornerhouseproject 2 месяца назад

Yes it is, we get a slight smell of it every now and again especially when we dig right down. Either that or it’s coming from the cow shed next door! 🤣 It’s really amazing soil. Not great for digging today though as it gets very sticky when it rains!

@TrudiShearin-wr6wk 2 месяца назад

You guys are awesome!

@thecornerhouseproject 2 месяца назад

Thank you :-)

@user-ww1yv8ue8p 3 месяца назад

greatttt progreesss clearin the rubbles from buildinxx

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thank you Diana. Is was really slow going through all of the roots from the tree and the ivy roots but we are winning slowly. Hopefully tomorrow will be a good fast day :-) Thank you for watching and commenting :)

@user-ww1yv8ue8p 3 месяца назад

i always cant wait for ur next video ,especially that oud building ,cant wait till u start on that too ,u 2 must be knackered lolxx@@thecornerhouseproject

@johnoneill5812 3 месяца назад

The outbuilding wall looks so much better with the ivy removed. Your house and outbuildings are certainly on a solid base. I'm wondering if you will have to do some sort of surface channel to direct water that comes off the road away from the house. Hard to see where the water is supposed to go with the absence of a ditch along the lane.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Good afternoon John, hope you are well. Oh it really is on solid ground. When they did the electric pole we didn't feel a single vibration in the house, it is on one solid lump. We think you could be right John with a surface channel. Once we have all of the grass cleared from the edges of the house we will be able to see exactly where the water goes, how deep we might be able to go with a channel or something and go from there. In an ideal world it will just flow straight under the house and out the other side... with out luck though... it is unlikely. As always John, thank you so much for watching and commenting :-)

@user-ld6bf6zs4w 3 месяца назад

You think it’s a small improvement but look at the big picture of all you have accomplished. I would build some raised garden beds and put the dirt into them you could also put small branches to partial fill the beds. As the wood roots it will feed the plants and build the soil. So are the ditches dug along side the edges of the bedrock?

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Yes this is very true, it’s easy sometimes to feel overwhelmed by the work but it is just a small part really of all the other stuff that we’ve done in the last month or so. So thank you for pointing that out because it made me remember to appreciate the rest that is already done. I like the idea of the raised beds with the soil. We have lots of tree branches hanging around luckily! 😉 yes they do seem to be with the ditches, Ben pushed a metal rod through the top of the ditch today and hit what felt like rock again so we’re guessing the same as you 😊

@jent1437 3 месяца назад

Hi new-ish subscriber, I was just wondering if you qualified for the derelict house grant, iv seen other channels have got it, sorry if this question has been asked and answered before, house is/will be fantastic, loving the Irish countryside.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi and welcome 😊 and no problem at all with the question. We didn’t go for it in the end. We did think about it but quickly realised we didn’t have the money to be able to do it upfront and we also needed to be able to live in the house as quickly as we could other than sleeping in the tent lol. With the grant you can’t live in it or start any work before approval of the grant and we needed to start replacing the floors asap. Aww we love it too, it’s a beautiful place to live. ❤️

@ellenchapman5293 3 месяца назад

That is actually a terrific clearance, not sure what you are seeing with your tired eyes, the difference is clear and huge from here. That whole area is unrecognisable from what you started with, quite the slog though, doing it all by hand, little wonder it seems never ending to you right now x

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hahaha maybe that’s what it is…the tired eyes. I think we need to remember to stand back every now and again and then I think we can see what has been done…it’s hard to see when your just staring at mud and roots all the time! Yeah it would be so much quicker with a digger and we have thought about it on a few occasions, but realised we didn’t want all the grass churned up from getting it on the land and also we weren’t sure what we would do with any soil that needed scraping back and piling up. So we gave that idea up and got stuck in. 😂 x

@Mitch-Hendren 3 месяца назад

I still reckon the "outbuilding" you're referring to id the original stone cottage that your house replaced. Judging by the size and window positions . So probably about 200 - 250 years old sounds right . Be amazing once its all done. Btw i replied to ur message check ur spam folder . Cheers .

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

It is a fair old size of a building, so you’re probably right. I’ve seen pictures of buildings like this one where they housed the people on the one side and the animals on the other, the other outbuilding is fairly big too. The one without a roof has had a doorway modification in the past too so it would be good to rebuild that to how it should be and also the one with the flat roof we’ve been told that may have been a double gable too, so again that would be nice, if our skills stretch to it, to put that back too. Fingers crossed we can do a good enough job on them to get them back to how they would have looked. Okie doke will have a check of the spam. I don’t think I’ve checked the mail at all today so it might even be in the inbox 😂 Thanks Mitch 😊

@justgoodness333littlehomes5 3 месяца назад

I wonder if one of the outbuildings was a human dwelling once upon a time.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Good evening to you :-) It looks like the one we don't own may have been both a cow shed and also a dwelling due to the being a possible window 2/3rds of the way up the wall. I don't know if the people we are in contact will know as it may have been a long long time ago. The name of the previous owners here dates back to 200+ years on this land and maybe even further. Dawn is the geologist so will ask her to have a look again and see as she has forgotten the dates. The one on our land with no roof was a cow shed and the other a piggery (we think) Thanks for watching and commenting :-)

@marcusd2380 3 месяца назад

That Matock u have there is the manual for digging roots. Keep it sharp with a we grinder and it will chop through the roots. The min digger u use a toothed bucket and gently pull it through the roots in the direct if there growth and then chop the bigger roots with that matock. Keep going every day there’s progress

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

It’s a great tool for this we love it, it struggles with the real chunky ones but the ratchet loppers are amazing for them. May need a sharpen soon as we’ve hit a few stones here and there! 🫣 it’s amazing for getting through the compacted earth though…makes it such light work to then rake it away.

@marcusd2380 3 месяца назад

@@thecornerhouseproject I’m amazed at how much work u get through in a day. All that earth would be great for raised veg beds this year. Very easy to make out of railway sleepers. It looks very rich in the videos. That hole in the wall would have lead to what we called a duckel. Basicly an area for store cow crap until it was spread in feilds. Might also explain the hard surface under neath it.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Yeah I think we will use some of the for raised beds, I rather like that idea. It’s such a good soil too and with how wet our land is, raised beds have got to be the way forward! I had not heard of a duckel…like new words! Thanks for that and the explanation too 😊

@wendymichaelson5426 3 месяца назад

Hi ya Dawn and Ben. The land is looking amazing good. How did you find y

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi Wendy Thank you very much, it is all a labour of love, slow but getting there. Dawn used daft.ie to find houses / cottages with land and must have looked at well over one hundred places before we got down to just seven. And for five days we went down the West(ish) coast looking at them for three days and just looking and traveling for a couple. It was a brilliant five days. Thank you for watching and commenting :)

@wendymichaelson5426 3 месяца назад

Hi Dawn and Ben where did you find your land ?. How much did you buy the land for after solicitors fees and taxes?. Every blessing to you both. 😊

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

@vickiellibby7051 3 месяца назад

Biblical the wise man built his house on a rock😊

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Very wise because it’s certainly not going anywhere sat on that! 😊

@betty-loufraser5264 3 месяца назад

New to your channel,just wondering weather you have found any interesting old artefacts on the property? Like old pottery or coins or bottle?

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Ooh we’ve found sooo many little bits and pieces and some not so little. We did a few videos quite early on where I show what I found as we went along…. I will see if I can link you to some of them. Finding all sorts again at the moment because of digging the land. I love it….Ben calls it Tat…I like to refer to it as Treasure! 😊

@coby6417 3 месяца назад

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@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

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@cferguson3368 2 месяца назад

Not sure if this helpful...I've used a reciprocating saw with longer blades to get through big clumps of roots in the ground. It really helps to loosen up the soil. However, any reciprocating saw blades you use for this purpose will not be good for anything else.

@thecornerhouseproject 2 месяца назад

Very helpful because we do use one of those for branches and roots….but I’d never thought of getting a longer blade to be able to get through big clumps! That will be very helpful for trying to get through that big pile at the end of the larger outbuilding when we come to,have to move that pile to fix the wall. So thank you for that 🤩

@bwitched3810 3 месяца назад

Dawn happy Monday ,my gosh you are a power house , Could you use your feminine charm on a neighbor to tiller the back yard ,😊Love and hugs

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi Sandy, I wish Dawn would slow down sometimes, she wears me out. The drawer back to a machine is the mess it will make just getting on the land. The tractor dents are still in the top area which fill nicely with water each time it rains lol. A machine would be lovely, but we are getting there. Hope you are having a nice day over there in sunny CA. See you Wednesday :-)

@bwitched3810 3 месяца назад

Thanks Ben be good to your self’s .

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

We will try :-)

@CatherineH.-gf7mm 3 месяца назад

I imagine getting the correct pitch on the drainage to fix the bogginess of the area will help a great deal!! Good luck with the pruning, too :)

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Once we have the area cleared / done how we have planned, we can see where the really wet spots are and see what we can do with it to hopefully direct it to the ditch. Thank you for watching and commenting Catherine :-)

@deranocasper 3 месяца назад

Hello there would it be possible to dig a trench at the gable end of the house and fit a french drain take the water away from the house

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching and commenting :-) We are hoping we can make at least some form of channel from the road and then down the sides of the house, finally into the ditch between the outbuildings. Clearing the remaining grass and mud up against the house is on the "soon" list to be done. At this point we will have a clear idea of what we will be able to do. We do think just clearing the grass will make a difference to any remaining damp at the base of the walls. Fingers crossed. Thanks again :-)

@LindaAndrews128 3 месяца назад

I suggest painting the handles of your garden tools bright red or fluorescent yellow or pink. Some hi-vis color not green!

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

I love this idea, because a dirty brown colour isn’t easy to find in the middle of all the mud and beige and green colours! Haha

@alanlucas2886 3 месяца назад

im waiting for my new laptop to come by 7.30 pm

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

A new bed and a new laptop Alan, have you won the lottery and not mentioned it? hahaha

@alanlucas2886 3 месяца назад

@@thecornerhouseproject and new blinds i wish i had done it from the start

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

So you are really posh now then Alan. We won't see you anymore. I doubt you mix with riff raff.

@alanlucas2886 3 месяца назад

@@thecornerhouseproject haha no im on the bottom of the ladder getting cover in s ----t lol im working class

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Nothing wrong with being working class Alan at all 😊

@susanault6809 3 месяца назад

Do you not own the out buildings.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi Susan Not the one with the ivy on it. The other two are ours though. A good job they are ours as we helped the roof collapse on the bigger one of the two back in July or August. Ooops. Thanks for watching and commenting :-)

@ce1581 3 месяца назад

I wish the owner of the falling ruin outbuilding would sell it to you for a 1$ so you could make use of it ! They obviously couldnt give a toss about it letting it go to ruin for decades like they have .❤

@user-ox8gp1cg6j 3 месяца назад

What a cheek

@ce1581 3 месяца назад

@@user-ox8gp1cg6j maybe, maybe not . If you don't use it maybe you don't want the headache any more ? . Here in the USA" ruins" / abandoned properties are an insurance liability.

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

I don't think it is a case of not giving a toss but more a case of time or maybe many other reasons.

@ce1581 3 месяца назад

@@thecornerhouseproject I guess maybe I'm being harsh but my comment was really off the top of my head wishful thinking for you guys betterment. Not to be evil and take something precious from somebody. Actually we had each neighbor on either side of our horse pasture ask if we wanted to fence in their empty over grown back pastures. They were tired of finding people with brush mowing tractors to keep the grass down and they each liked watching our horses from their back porches . So something a property owner might never believe could happen happened for us we got almost a whole extra acre for feed . God bless anyway ❣️

@guyprot-zq1dz 3 месяца назад

Un peu trop long, 20 minutes maximum, ce serait mieux😊😊

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hi, a daily video for 20 minutes was quite easily done. But 3 days of work in 20 minutes is a lot of footage not used. Speeding it up via RU-vid settings is an option one commenter uses, or maybe watch some today and some tomorrow? Just thoughts though :-) Thank you for watching and commenting and sorry it is a bit long :-)

@pitsnipe5559 3 месяца назад

Do you know where the old well is? Might be able to revive it. That’s some hard digging, don’t know about you but I’m tired. 🥱

@thecornerhouseproject 3 месяца назад

Hahaha yeah very tired! It’s been a hard few days, we cannot deny! There isn’t any well as far as we know, the previous owners, whose family have lived on this plot of land for at least 200 years never had a well, their water came from a well further down the lane until the rain water tank was put in, maybe around the 1980’s.