Pa Mac, I hope you and your family are happy and healthy and yah all are doing great! And the farmstead is thriving very well. I miss you!!! God Bless you and your family, and I hope you have a Safe And Happy Memorial Day!!! I Salute and bow my head and pray for all the fallen men and women who served this country and fought and died to protect our freedoms... God Bless Them All And God Bless America!!!
Hi Pa Mac, it was long awaited, but this was another episode that hit he nail on the head! Long may you continue. Watching every episode here in Wales and enjoying every minute.
My husband and I just moved to 27 of acres in W North Carolina. We are trying to live as off-the-land as possible. We are going to try and build a small log cabin for our goats first, then hopefully for ourselves.thank you for generously sharing your wisdom. It is truly priceless.
Thank YOU, Plow and Flute. I enjoyed watchin' your videos (especially the cow stanchion). Western North Carolina is one of our favorite areas to visit on rare family trips. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for posting again. Our homestead is almost complete (April '18) and this video re-inspired me to look forward to adventures when we are living on our dream home in rural NC. Its been 2.5 years building our home and I am quite ready to live the good life. Your videos inspire and motivate me while we wait. Thank you for what you do. I can't wait to start my pole shed/workshop and many other projects.
01:35 oh my dear lord I laughed so hard. How do you manage to have such a good sense of humour, AND common sense, AND a visual-spatial IQ that's off the charts?? (Not to mention that dashing grin)
Great to see your progress on your farm again, Pa Mac. Sorry to see that your old chainsaw gave up the ghost. I really like how you use materials straight from your land to make your chicken house (and pretty much everything else).
LOL, that bagpipe will put every cat within a mile in heat LOL. Building a log chicken house? What is a log chicken? This new video just made my day. Thank you for posting it. I really enjoy your videos. I hope you caulk between the logs carefully to help keep unwanted critters like skunks, weasels, etc. out of the log chicken house. You would be surprised how small a crack they can squeeze through. I'm sure your log chickens will really appreciate it. Please keep the videos coming. They are excellent!
I've been looking forward to your next video and I really enjoyed watching this. I just built my kids a playhouse last fall and when you got to the rafters I vividly remembered that moment when I too had to build a jig. I used standard lumber but a lot of the techniques and methods are the same. I really enjoy the fact that what you build is sourced in such a way that one could truly do it themselves. that sense of self reliance is what is inspiring to me.
Informative, witty, clever, and educational from a very hard-working and talented farmer and craftsman! Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Didn't know you could play the bagpipes....nice touch to bid adieu!
Hey Julia, Thanks for your very kind words as always. (just fyi, I noticed when puttin' this footage together I was wearin' a pair of shoes that a hero of mine once gave me.) Take care and I hope you're doin' very well!
These videos, like your measurements, are what I call “Pa Mac Perfect!” Love them! I think I’ll go finish making the handle to my 1890’s broadaxe now...
I love your video's and its very nice to see a new 1 pa mac. Your video's are awesome and many of us look forward to your newer video's as we have all seen your older video's myself a I have seen all your video's 2-3 times each. Your humor and more importantly your recoursefullness is an inspiration to us farm builders. Keep up the great work and keep making these video's and we will keep watching them. Thank You.
So glad to see you post a new video! I’ve been following for several years, with plans to incorporate ideas from your pole-barn series into a building of my own. I appreciate the work you put into the videos. Many thanks.
Lol...The Pipes! I was hopin' to hear Amazing Grace, though. I loved seeing how you were able to figure out how to get extra helping hands when there weren't any! Can't wait to see the finished hen house! Thanks Pa Mac!😄
Love Love Love!!! One of these days im building a little cabin similar, been planning it since i was about 12 just havent got her started yet. Thanks for all of the inspiration.
I keep looking for the door & nest boxes!!! Please tell me you will show those soon. I really like this idea & as a single female would do what I could to follow it's basic design as well as I will be able to in the hopefully near future. While watching both portions, & the second portion twice, I still hadn't realized until I went to post a comment that this was just done yesterday. wow!
Door, nest boxes, roosts, ..and even a little window for sunlight comin' soon. First I'll need to put some shingles (shakes) on. Thanks for watchin', treyshroud!
Thanks for the response! I did share some of your videos around in numerous places, facebook, other channels, & some online game friends that I have in chat who are from many parts of the world. For some it was the stone flooring that really appealed to them in learning a new lifetime skill. For others it was the opportunity for a good time with your humor & your scarecrow/crow antics, for the Canadian game developers I mentioned your high tech gourds! I enjoyed everything, I am sure many of them will also continue to share your videos with many different cultures.
Thank you so much for your hard work producing the content and editing. You have wonderful God given talents that really shine. We really appreciate your hard work and your videos are informative, creative and so fun. We don't subscribe to cable TV so we watch programs that are fulfilling. Thank you again and I suspect it won't be long before you have very many subscribers. Let's hope RUclips will monetize you handsomely, you deserve it. All the best.
You might consider the use of a "spud" when peeling logs. It's much saver than the use of an axe and faster. I hope you seasoned your rafters prior to raising them. Another suggestion: peeling the bottom sill logs helps to limit the invasion and infestation of grubs, ants and the like. I'm glad to see that you are helping resurrect the old ways of doing for oneself that was most common in my youth.
Lol your so funny and so talented too. I was tickled pink when your measuring tape wouldn't go back in , it's in the night here and I laughed out loud literally .
Nice video!! like to watch them. I live in the Netherlands and like the good old times special the American way. Look forward to the next video. Greetings Jeroen.
Don't recall the last time I was this excited to watch another man work. I think you should be happy with the new Stihl. My dad's had one since the 70s and it still hums right along. Thought about getting one myself, but to my surprise Dad said don't. He figures that if I need any cutting done, he can do it being only a 3 1/2 hour drive away. I think he gets a little too excited to have an excuse to do some cutting. "Besides," he said, "when I'm gone you'll get this one." Can't argue with that logic.
Glad to see you back! I've been needing a new duck hutch and wood cost an arm and a leg up here in the great white north, I'll be doing what you did but scaling down the walls, ducks don't roost haha.
A "pox on thy house" of those who gave FHC a 'thumbs down'! What mendacious evil lurks in the soul of such a person!? THIS is the Emerald Tablet! A free class in Spiritual Alchemy! I guess the old saying IS true, FHC! "Do not throw pearls before swine." And, "woohooo! You are back"!
Pa mac. I do thank ya kindly for doin all the hard work on these videos. I cant tell you how much i enjoy to watch them. I been thinkin how i could rebuild an old spring house very cheap and i think i found it. How long should the peeled pine season before construction? Thank ya Pa. God bless. Plantin seasons bout here. Sure cant wait.
Hey Lance, Really no need to structural reasonin' for seasonin' logs before usin' 'em in log construction...except for maybe avoidin' pine sap all over your hands and clothes. Thanks again for watchin', Lance!
Hahaha the introduction of this video makes me laugh, i know letting go is sometimes tough for us especially to the things that we valued much IFY sir i think we have same soul 😄 nice log chicken coop, & thanks i open this video i learn something.
Hey Stephanie, I'll probably show some more of it and how to use it one day, but for now there's a little more about it on my Patreon page for supporters of the show: www.patreon.com/posts/grandpas-old-8507616 Thanks for watchin'!
Actually Jason, the broad axe is easier for me. The heavier weight of the axe head gives momentum for the peel (just kind of lettin' it drop on the pole). Plus I don't have to bend over, or lift the pole higher to use with the drawknife. Thanks for watchin'!
Pa Mac, I hope you and your family are happy and healthy and yah all are doing great! And the farmstead is thriving very well. I miss you!!! God Bless you and your family, and I hope you have a Safe And Happy Memorial Day!!! I Salute and bow my head and pray for all the fallen men and women who served this country and fought and died to protect our freedoms... God Bless Them All And God Bless America!!!
Hi Pa Mac, it was long awaited, but this was another episode that hit he nail on the head! Long may you continue. Watching every episode here in Wales and enjoying every minute.
My husband and I just moved to 27 of acres in W North Carolina. We are trying to live as off-the-land as possible. We are going to try and build a small log cabin for our goats first, then hopefully for ourselves.thank you for generously sharing your wisdom. It is truly priceless.
Thank YOU, Plow and Flute. I enjoyed watchin' your videos (especially the cow stanchion). Western North Carolina is one of our favorite areas to visit on rare family trips. Keep up the good work.
There are moments of genius , and of humour , great video 👍🇬🇧
Thank you for posting again. Our homestead is almost complete (April '18) and this video re-inspired me to look forward to adventures when we are living on our dream home in rural NC. Its been 2.5 years building our home and I am quite ready to live the good life. Your videos inspire and motivate me while we wait. Thank you for what you do. I can't wait to start my pole shed/workshop and many other projects.
Good to see you back here..
01:35 oh my dear lord I laughed so hard. How do you manage to have such a good sense of humour, AND common sense, AND a visual-spatial IQ that's off the charts?? (Not to mention that dashing grin)
These are a joy forever to watch!
Thank you so much for watchin' the show, aserta!
Made my morning seeing this notification. You are one smart guy building like that it looks great. Love the music too.
Family of 12 here, and all of the children love watching these.
Thank you, Swiss Kinist.
Tell all the kids Pa Mac says "Hey!"
farmhandscompanion We will. Thanks and God bless you!
Glad I discovered this on utube. Very interesting and enlightening.
Glad to see a new project being completed. Your attention to detail is so interesting to watch. I love the way you present your videos.
I bet you’ve never been told you favor Bill Engvall?? You’re videos are entertaining and clever. I enjoy them! 👍🏻👍🏻
Great to see your progress on your farm again, Pa Mac. Sorry to see that your old chainsaw gave up the ghost. I really like how you use materials straight from your land to make your chicken house (and pretty much everything else).
Hey Lane, thanks as always for watchin' and commentin'!
LOL, that bagpipe will put every cat within a mile in heat LOL. Building a log chicken house? What is a log chicken? This new video just made my day. Thank you for posting it. I really enjoy your videos. I hope you caulk between the logs carefully to help keep unwanted critters like skunks, weasels, etc. out of the log chicken house. You would be surprised how small a crack they can squeeze through. I'm sure your log chickens will really appreciate it. Please keep the videos coming. They are excellent!
Thanks as always, cuban9splat!
(I'll be chinkin' the logs with leftover wood shakes)
What a great surprise to see pop up in my notifications. Love your videos, rare and just awesome.
Thank you, Steve, for watchin' and commentin'!
I've been looking forward to your next video and I really enjoyed watching this. I just built my kids a playhouse last fall and when you got to the rafters I vividly remembered that moment when I too had to build a jig. I used standard lumber but a lot of the techniques and methods are the same. I really enjoy the fact that what you build is sourced in such a way that one could truly do it themselves. that sense of self reliance is what is inspiring to me.
I appreciate that, John.
And I bet your kids really appreciated the playhouse you built for 'em.
Keep on bein' a good daddy, John!
man I woke up and saw this, what a great morning. love your intro everything is full circle
These videos make any day much better. Mine ended much better! Thanks for sharing Pa Mac
Honestly, the best information-filled content there is to date. Good stuff!
Thank you for your work and knowledge! Ive learned more from your videos than any other on RUclips and you dont even have to say a word, thank you
Informative, witty, clever, and educational from a very hard-working and talented farmer and craftsman! Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Didn't know you could play the bagpipes....nice touch to bid adieu!
Hey Julia,
Thanks for your very kind words as always.
(just fyi, I noticed when puttin' this footage together I was wearin' a pair of shoes that a hero of mine once gave me.)
Take care and I hope you're doin' very well!
Thanks again Pa Mac. I enjoy each new episode so much.
Couldn't wait to watch after seeing a new video....and expecting a second part to follow soon. !!Happy Days!
Outstanding work and history. Authentic is a big bravo. Excellent work and explaining. 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐛🐛🐛🐛🐌🐌🐔🐔🐣🐣🐤🐤🎷🎷💲💲👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you, Jerry
Ingenious solutions for simple problems. Love it!
Best videos on RUclips! Thanks for sharing all your hard work!
These videos, like your measurements, are what I call “Pa Mac Perfect!” Love them! I think I’ll go finish making the handle to my 1890’s broadaxe now...
Looking forward to part 3 and putting the lid on.
Thanks
James
You should write a book my friend. Great show
Best homestead channel !
I love your video's and its very nice to see a new 1 pa mac. Your video's are awesome and many of us look forward to your newer video's as we have all seen your older video's myself a I have seen all your video's 2-3 times each. Your humor and more importantly your recoursefullness is an inspiration to us farm builders. Keep up the great work and keep making these video's and we will keep watching them. Thank You.
I appreciate those kind words, Rick
I see I'm not the only one watching them more than twice.
So glad to see you post a new video!
I’ve been following for several years, with plans to incorporate ideas from your pole-barn series into a building of my own.
I appreciate the work you put into the videos. Many thanks.
Lol...The Pipes! I was hopin' to hear Amazing Grace, though. I loved seeing how you were able to figure out how to get extra helping hands when there weren't any! Can't wait to see the finished hen house! Thanks Pa Mac!😄
Thanks as always, TheBereangirl!
Thanks for the video , missed them
Glad your back at it!
Thank you, Bonnie Doon Homestead!
Keep up the good work with your videos
Old and new is the best way to go always!
Love Love Love!!! One of these days im building a little cabin similar, been planning it since i was about 12 just havent got her started yet. Thanks for all of the inspiration.
God bless you Pa Mac. Love from Cyprus.
Thank you so much, Le Argyo!
I'm so glad to see a new video
Dang, pleasure to watch you work. I love carpentry skills like you have.
Haha! Sad soundin' bag pipes! So happy to see another great video! Thank you for sharing your skills and knowledge.
You betcha, Northern Lassie!
I keep looking for the door & nest boxes!!! Please tell me you will show those soon. I really like this idea & as a single female would do what I could to follow it's basic design as well as I will be able to in the hopefully near future. While watching both portions, & the second portion twice, I still hadn't realized until I went to post a comment that this was just done yesterday. wow!
Door, nest boxes, roosts, ..and even a little window for sunlight comin' soon. First I'll need to put some shingles (shakes) on.
Thanks for watchin', treyshroud!
Thanks for the response! I did share some of your videos around in numerous places, facebook, other channels, & some online game friends that I have in chat who are from many parts of the world. For some it was the stone flooring that really appealed to them in learning a new lifetime skill. For others it was the opportunity for a good time with your humor & your scarecrow/crow antics, for the Canadian game developers I mentioned your high tech gourds! I enjoyed everything, I am sure many of them will also continue to share your videos with many different cultures.
I loved every minute of it. I can't wait to see the shingles.
Thank you so much for your hard work producing the content and editing. You have wonderful God given talents that really shine. We really appreciate your hard work and your videos are informative, creative and so fun. We don't subscribe to cable TV so we watch programs that are fulfilling. Thank you again and I suspect it won't be long before you have very many subscribers. Let's hope RUclips will monetize you handsomely, you deserve it. All the best.
Well, I really appreciate yall watchin' the show, v rock!
Thank you for your kind words
I get so excited every time you release a new video!! Thanks Pa :D
Great video I learnt so much!
Love these videos and always get excited when a new one pops up in my feed, thank you for sharing!
You might consider the use of a "spud" when peeling logs. It's much saver than the use of an axe and faster. I hope you seasoned your rafters prior to raising them. Another suggestion: peeling the bottom sill logs helps to limit the invasion and infestation of grubs, ants and the like. I'm glad to see that you are helping resurrect the old ways of doing for oneself that was most common in my youth.
Im going to try making this exact coop. You got some great videos keep it coming!
Funny - love your sense of humor!
Enjoy yur videos very much !!!!!
Lol your so funny and so talented too. I was tickled pink when your measuring tape wouldn't go back in , it's in the night here and I laughed out loud literally .
Glad you posted a new video, love seeing your projects
Nice video!! like to watch them.
I live in the Netherlands and like the good old times special the American way.
Look forward to the next video.
Greetings Jeroen.
Thank you very much, Jeroen
Yesssss! I’ve waiting so long for a new episode!
As always these are simply just great. And I learn something too!
Literally i jumped out of bed and ran to my computer when i got the notification that you posted :)
Then I'll try not to post so early in the morning next time, iliketobuildstuff.
Thank you so much for eagerly watchin'!
The video notification that made my day! Thanks
20:40 nice mitre box ;)
as always a good video.and fun at that.good to see you back.
Love it!! So glad to see you have got new videos!
love your videos! thanks for sharing
Thank you for the great videos!
Don't recall the last time I was this excited to watch another man work.
I think you should be happy with the new Stihl. My dad's had one since the 70s and it still hums right along. Thought about getting one myself, but to my surprise Dad said don't. He figures that if I need any cutting done, he can do it being only a 3 1/2 hour drive away. I think he gets a little too excited to have an excuse to do some cutting. "Besides," he said, "when I'm gone you'll get this one." Can't argue with that logic.
just registered after years of using youtube only to be able to hit the like-button here. great inspiration
Well, that is quite an honor, Rüdiger Schlamm!
(I very much appreciate you watchin', registerin', and hittin' the button.)
A new video!! I like the progress. Keep it up!
I don't know if your a believer or not, but I been prayin for ya lately cause you aint been posting nothing. Glad to see nothins wrong. love your vids
I am, and I thank you for your prayers, thebutteredbiscuit1!
(Nothin's wrong...just takes me awhile to put out a new show)
Just found your channel today and I really enjoy it
YES! MY FAVORITE CHANNEL POSTED ANOTHER VIDEO
love watching your videos. gives me so many ideas I want to try
Glad to see you back! I've been needing a new duck hutch and wood cost an arm and a leg up here in the great white north, I'll be doing what you did but scaling down the walls, ducks don't roost haha.
This made me very happy!
I'm so happy it made you very happy, Crafty War Crone!
Great videos my friend! Just love this coop build. Well done
Keep making more! Love these. funny and informative. And not riddled with a talking head the whole time
love your vids please keep posting.........................................................................................................
Great Vidoe! Did anyone else hear the guinea fowl? Happy to see ya got a new saw.
Well nothin’ wrong with bein’ a better carpenter than a bagpipe player😁
Very good video and we'll made
Not gonna lie when you were showing the faster part of building it I was watching the chickens about 100% of the time
Yep.
I was payin' more attention to them while editing the footage too.
Thanks for at least tryin' to watch the show, Indiana Farmer!
great job
A "pox on thy house" of those who gave FHC a 'thumbs down'!
What mendacious evil lurks in the soul of such a person!?
THIS is the Emerald Tablet! A free class in Spiritual Alchemy!
I guess the old saying IS true, FHC!
"Do not throw pearls before swine."
And, "woohooo! You are back"!
Pa mac. I do thank ya kindly for doin all the hard work on these videos. I cant tell you how much i enjoy to watch them. I been thinkin how i could rebuild an old spring house very cheap and i think i found it. How long should the peeled pine season before construction?
Thank ya Pa. God bless. Plantin seasons bout here. Sure cant wait.
Hey Lance,
Really no need to structural reasonin' for seasonin' logs before usin' 'em in log construction...except for maybe avoidin' pine sap all over your hands and clothes. Thanks again for watchin', Lance!
farmhandscompanion mornin Pa, thanks for the information. God bless and have a good one
love your videos.. i love that you dont say a word and im intrigued the whole time. are you going to do a tour of your new property?
Bagpipes and kilt good stuff
We need to see a video of you making one of your famous musical instruments!!
I just love it
Hahaha the introduction of this video makes me laugh, i know letting go is sometimes tough for us especially to the things that we valued much IFY sir i think we have same soul 😄 nice log chicken coop, & thanks i open this video i learn something.
I appreciate you watchin' the show, Chary!
Sweet, a new episode! :)
Love these videos!
love your content, great video as always!
Thank you, Anya.
(And thanks to everyone else for your kind comments as well.)
Don’t be a stranger, love your videos!
a pair of log dogs would help hold the rafter in place while cutting the ends ..... but your way works just as good too
Thank You
I FOUND MY NEW JAM
nothin wrong mixin old and new....
Can you imagine hearing a neighbor in the distant woods chainsawing, and then one day, unusual silence, followed by bagpipes.
When you put it that way, it's kind of scary.
I would love to see a video on how you built that grinder wheel that you are using in the video at 0:24.
Hey Stephanie,
I'll probably show some more of it and how to use it one day, but for now there's a little more about it on my Patreon page for supporters of the show: www.patreon.com/posts/grandpas-old-8507616
Thanks for watchin'!
Welcome back welcome back!!
Good to be back, Essential Mountain Homesteading.
Keep up the good work with your mountain videos!
Peeling with a draw knife rather than a broad axe may have been easier. Nice work.
Actually Jason, the broad axe is easier for me.
The heavier weight of the axe head gives momentum for the peel (just kind of lettin' it drop on the pole). Plus I don't have to bend over, or lift the pole higher to use with the drawknife.
Thanks for watchin'!